different between fuel vs nuel

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

From Middle English newel, niwel (“right down”, adverb), from Old English n?ol, n?wol, n?owol, neowol, niwol, nihol (“precipitous, headlong, prone, prostrate, obscure, deep down, low, profound, abysmal”), of uncertain origin. Possibly a variant of nifol (“dark, gloomy, obscure”), from Proto-West Germanic *nebul, from Proto-Germanic *nibulaz, *nebulaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *néb?elos, from *néb?os (“cloud, mist, moisture”); or more likely, from Proto-Germanic *n?hwulaz (“descending; low”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneyg??- (“to tend; incline; lean toward; bend”), from *ken- (“to press; pinch; kink”).

If derived from *nibulaz, then cognate with Dutch nevel (“mist, fog, haze”), German Nebel (“fog, mist, haze, nebula”), Icelandic nifl (“fog, darkness”), Icelandic njól (“mist, night, darkness”), Latin nebula (“fog, cloud, vapour”), Ancient Greek ????? (néphos, “cloud”).

If derived from *n?hwulaz, then cognate Old Frisian niwul, Middle Low German n?gel, nugel, nule, n?l (“forwards; forward over”), Middle Dutch niel (“thrown forward on the ground; prostrate”) (Dutch nuul-, vernielen).

Adjective

nuel (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Prone; tending to.
2. (obsolete) face-down; prostrate.

Related terms

• neveling

Anagrams

• Lune, lune