Fuelled vs Heighten - What's the difference?
fuelled | heighten |
(fuel)
Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
(figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
To provide with fuel.
To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
:to heighten beauty
:to heighten a flavor or a tint.
* 2006 , Ashley Seager,
*:If Mr Brown chooses, he could raise his estimate of the economy's "trend" rate of growth in the coming years and so heighten his hopes of tax revenues.
As verbs the difference between fuelled and heighten
is that fuelled is (fuel) while heighten is to make high; to raise higher; to elevate.fuelled
English
Alternative forms
* fueled (US)Verb
(head)fuel
English
(wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)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 .}}
- 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 fuelVerb
Usage notes
* Fuelled'' and ''fuelling'' are British, Australian, and New Zealand spellings. ''Fueled and ''fueling are US spellings.Anagrams
* * ----heighten
English
Verb
Employment rise gives chancellor a boost'', published in ''The Guardian Online , 6 December 2006