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Fuel vs Verd - What's the difference?

fuel | verd |

As nouns the difference between fuel and verd

is that fuel is substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction while verd is (obsolete|uk|legal) the privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.

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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , 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

    * * ----

    verd

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete, UK, legal) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.
  • (obsolete, UK, legal) The right of pasturing animals in a forest.
    • (Burrill)
  • (obsolete) greenness; freshness
    • (Nares)
    (Webster 1913) ----