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Fuel vs Kilometrage - What's the difference?

fuel | kilometrage |

As nouns the difference between fuel and kilometrage

is that fuel is substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction while kilometrage is the total distance, in kilometres, travelled.

As a verb fuel

is to provide with fuel.

fuel

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
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  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel .}}
  • Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
  • (figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
  • His books were fuel for the revolution.
    Money is the fuel for economy.
    That film was nightmare fuel !

    Derived terms

    * fossil fuel * fuel cell * nuclear fuel * solid fuel

    Verb

  • To provide with fuel.
  • To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
  • Usage notes

    * Fuelled'' and ''fuelling'' are British, Australian, and New Zealand spellings. ''Fueled and ''fueling are US spellings.

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    kilometrage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the total distance, in kilometres, travelled
  • the number of kilometres travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel
  • an allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per kilometre
  • See also

    * mileage