fuelとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːəl/, /ˈfjʊəl/, /ˈfjuːl/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): [ˈfjuwəɫ] (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!

   • 2006 June 15, “Ammunition: the fuel of conflict”, in Oxfam International‎^[2]:

     Small arms ammunition is the fuel that keeps many of the world’s conflicts raging.

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.
   • 1959 May, “Talking of Trains: By diesel m.u. to Moorgate”, in Trains Illustrated, page 235:

     The workings now employ ten twin-units, which are fuelled at Hornsey but return to Cambridge diesel depot for their weekly maintenance; [...].

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 and common in Canada.