fuelとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English fewell, from Old French fouaille, feuaille, from feu (“fire”). Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːəl/, /ˈfjʊəl/, /ˈfjuːl/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): [ˈfjuw əɫ] (some speakers)
  • 韻: -ʊəl

名詞

fuel (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fuels)

1. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     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.

2. Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
3. (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!

   • 2019 April 4, Joshua Philipp, “Socialist ‘Equality’ Is a Lie Used by Tyrants”, in The Epoch Times‎^[2]:

     Hatred is the fuel of socialism. Hatred is the creed of its followers. They are made to embody what they believe they oppose.

派生語

動詞

fuel (third-person singular simple present fuels, present participle (米国用法) fueling or fuelling, simple past and past participle (米国用法) fueled or fuelled)

1. To provide with fuel.
2. To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.

使用する際の注意点

• Fuelled and fuelling are British, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian spellings. Fueled and fueling are U.S. spellings.

アナグラム

• flue, fule