different between fuel vs charcloth

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fju??l/, /?fj??l/, /?fju?l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?fjuw??] (some speakers)
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

fuel (countable and uncountable, plural fuels)

1. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
2. Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
3. (figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

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

Usage notes

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

Translations

Anagrams

• flue, fule

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fuel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjul/

Noun

fuel m (plural fuels)

1. Alternative form of fioul

Further reading

• “fuel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

fuel

1. Alternative form of fewell

Spanish

Noun

fuel m (plural fueles)

1. fuel oil

English

Etymology

char +? cloth

Noun

charcloth (uncountable)

1. A swatch of fabric made from vegetable fibre (such as linen or cotton) that has been converted via pyrolysis into a slow-burning fuel of very low ignition temperature, historically used as tinder.