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Fumes vs Fuel - What's the difference?

fumes | fuel |

As verbs the difference between fumes and fuel

is that fumes is while fuel is to provide with fuel.

As a noun fuel is

substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.

fumes

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (fume)
    • ----

    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

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