what is the plural for Fuel?
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Current definitions for the noun senses are these:
- a flammable substance
- a substance consumed to power an engine through the release of chemical or nuclear energy
- a substance used by a machine or a process to produce energy or power
Some notions:
- not any flammable substance is a fuel, e.g. gunpowder, flour dust
- second and third definition are overlapping, if not the same
- figurative use is omitted
- at least in other dictionaries fuel also has the sense "food"
I think a better set of definitions would be this:
- Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, chemical or nuclear reaction.
- Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
- (figurative) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
- His books were fuel for the revolution.
- Money is the fuel for economy.
Comments? Feel free to make better suggestions. --Hekaheka 09:46, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
- Done. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:34, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
- Striking.—msh210℠ 15:27, 16 April 2010 (UTC)