I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fuel gauge (also petrol gauge British English), gas gauge AmE:
▪ The fuel gauge read a little over half full.
an energy/oil/fuel crisis
▪ There is an energy crisis here, with power cuts happening daily.
diesel fuel
energy/fuel efficient (=not wasting any fuel or energy)
▪ an energy efficient heating system
fossil fuel
▪ Environmentalists would like to see fossil fuels replaced by renewable energy sources.
fuel a boom (=add to it)
▪ The energy crisis is fuelling a boom in alternative energy.
fuel anger (=make people even more angry)
▪ The row could fuel growing anger among the Labour party.
fuel cell
fuel controversy (=add to it)
▪ England's manager fuelled controversy with his criticism of the referee.
fuel efficiency (=using fuel in an efficient way)
▪ Better fuel efficiency can be achieved by driving more slowly.
fuel inflation/push up inflation (=make inflation worse)
▪ The increase in food prices is fuelling inflation.
▪ There are now fears that price rises will push up inflation.
fuel injection
fuel speculation (=make it increase)
▪ The announcement has fueled speculation that the company will be the target of a takeover bid.
fuel tank
▪ the plane’s fuel tank
fuel/clothes/food etc rationing
▪ News of bread rationing created panic buying.
fuel/electricity/gas consumption
▪ There are three possible methods of reducing oil consumption.
milk/fuel/pizza etc delivery
▪ I gave the kids some money for a pizza delivery.
net exporter of fuel (=it exports more fuel than it imports)
▪ With the expanded production of North Sea oil and gas, the UK has become a net exporter of fuel.
solid fuel
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clean
▪ The Government has made moves to encourage owners of vehicles to adopt cleaner fuel, but action is slow.
▪ Independent tests have proved that Shell Advanced petrol will keep your engine three hundred percent cleaner than ordinary fuels.
▪ While this step awaits technical advances, cleaner fuels for cars and lorries, such as methanol, are urged for immediate use.
▪ Gas usage will increase particularly in the home-heating sectors and in industries requiring clean fuels.
▪ A great deal of research effort is going into overcoming hydrogen's shortcomings, mainly because it's such a clean fuel.
domestic
▪ This is used as a domestic fuel.
▪ Almost all the bogs have been extensively peat-cut for domestic fuel.
▪ Budget tax anger Anti-poverty campaigners have been angered by the Chancellor's budget decision to tax domestic fuel.
▪ Up to that time coal was chiefly used as a domestic fuel but from 1812 onwards it went to sea as bunker fuel.
nuclear
▪ Thermal stations burning coal, oil or nuclear fuel work 24 hours a day and their output is less easy to adjust.
▪ Energy Department officials say nuclear fuel rods have been safely transported for decades.
▪ Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods increases the volume of waste and should be undertaken only when necessary for safety reasons.
▪ Revenues, from reprocessing domestic and imported nuclear fuels, are not expected to exceed £5.2 billion.
▪ Officials have still to decide how the radioactive dust and nuclear fuel inside should be cleaned up.
▪ In September 1973, workers in the B204 building were starting work on dissolving a fresh batch of nuclear fuel.
▪ Eventually, however, the star will run out of its hydrogen and other nuclear fuels.
▪ After three years' work the last consignment of nuclear fuel rods has been removed.
solid
▪ I found a plumber, but when he saw the solid fuel monster in the kitchen, he paled visibly.
▪ Others For any advice on solid fuel, dial 100 and ask for Freefone Real Fires.
▪ The boiler, situated in the cellar, is hand-fired using solid fuel.
▪ Do you have room to store oil or solid fuel or wood?
▪ Apart from the trophy the winner receives £60, a tankard and a voucher for £35 for solid fuel.
▪ Whether, you're burning solid fuel, gas, or electricity, there's a fireplace for you.
▪ It fits into standard fireplace alcoves and runs on solid fuel.
▪ If you use solid fuel many approved coal merchants provide budget schemes and supply small quantities.
spent
▪ Sometime this year the North will start unloading and replacing spent fuel from a large reactor at Yongbyon.
▪ Its flies, the spent fuel, arrive regularly inside special containers on goods trains from nuclear reactors all over the country.
▪ At that stage the inspector did not mention spent nuclear fuel.
▪ Events prove that, in the context of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, his prediction is being realised.
▪ Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods increases the volume of waste and should be undertaken only when necessary for safety reasons.
▪ If you have to pay to reprocess the plutonium from spent fuel, though, it does not.
▪ If the spent fuel can not be reprocessed, alternative dry storage is needed.
▪ Berkeley has now become the first nuclear power station in Britain to have all its spent fuel removed.
unleaded
▪ Can you confirm that Land Rover V8 will accept unleaded fuel? 4.
▪ As you'd expect, being a Saab, it runs on unleaded fuel and has a 3 way catalytic converter.
▪ She was pleased to see that the 460 uses unleaded fuel, helping her bid to escape the city smoke.
▪ While its petrol-engined equivalent must have unleaded fuel, the diesel catalyser will only become effective when sulphur levels drop.
▪ By 2000 the great majority of cars will run on unleaded fuel.
▪ How will unleaded fuel affect the performance of my car?
▪ All petrol engines run on 91 octane unleaded fuel and are equipped with modern fuel injection and three-way exhaust catalysts.
▪ New vehicles will be required to comply with set standards from 1995, while unleaded fuel will become available in 2000.
■ NOUN
bill
▪ Grants are not available to pay for fuel bills.
▪ There are ways of paying your fuel bills which make budgeting a lot easier.
▪ Like the Picasso, it has five seats, so why put up with the added weight and bigger fuel bills?
▪ You won't notice the difference, but will save 10% on fuel bill.
▪ The system can pinpoint individuals if fuel bills and maintenance charges fall outside the average for their type of car.
▪ They had to take out a loan to pay their last fuel bill.
▪ Two-thirds of the total cited heating and fuel bills in particular as being more expensive than they had anticipated.
▪ In its condensing mode, the unit achieves up to 95% efficiency, contributing to reduced fuel bills.
consumption
▪ Changes in aerodynamics, lighter alloys in engines and leaner fuel consumption will be the main features.
▪ However, I would like to minimise the fuel consumption damage.
▪ Just as fuel consumption grows disproportionately as speeds rise, so does the emission of air pollutants.
▪ The caretaker is also increasingly monitoring fuel consumption.
▪ Given that pollution levels relate to fuel consumption, private cars and taxis are also the greatest polluters.
▪ Most animals increase their fuel consumption in proportion to the extra baggage they are carrying, but not the camel.
costs
▪ Certain costs, particularly fuel costs, fall heavily on old people.
▪ The extra expense would amount to $ 112, 320 a year in added fuel costs.
▪ Our addiction to petroleum can only be managed by incorporating environmental impacts in fuel costs.
▪ He cited higher jet fuel costs.
▪ In exceptional circumstances it may be possible to get a Crisis Loan for fuel costs.
▪ Gore could not afford to run the risk of seeing his hard-won political gains evaporate in a populist revolt over fuel costs.
▪ You do not have to be getting income support to apply and in exceptional circumstances they may be given for fuel costs.
▪ They warned, however, that relief operations were being seriously reduced by soaring fuel costs.
efficiency
▪ Much of the beauty of a good machine is in its mechanical design, as well as in its fuel efficiency.
▪ But it is firmly against heavy-handed regulation, such as a sharp increase in mandatory fuel efficiency for cars.
▪ The only certain way of cutting CO2 emissions is to encourage fuel efficiency.
▪ Improvements in vehicle drag coefficients lead to greater fuel efficiency and stability at high speeds, and simulation is driving innovation forward.
▪ Greater fuel efficiency is essential and there are now prototype cars that can travel between 52 and 100 miles per gallon.
▪ With engine modifications, more fuel efficiency, a new flight deck.
▪ For vehicles run by Trust staff the emphasis will be on maximising fuel efficiency and minimising damaging emissions.
fossil
▪ The main global-warming gas, after all, is carbon dioxide, given off mainly by burning fossil fuels.
▪ We are hastening this process with the burning of fossil fuels.
▪ This staining on marble is the result of dry deposition from sulphur dioxide gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
▪ Growth requires abundant cheap resources, especially fossil fuel, but also food and water.
▪ Now, remaining supplies of fossil fuels should be saved, not squandered.
▪ However, it has not yet been established that global warming is due to excessive combustion of fossil fuels.
▪ Do we carry on burning fossil fuels at rapid rates?
▪ Hasn't he any conception of the devastation caused to this planet by burning fossil fuels?
gauge
▪ The driver glanced at his fuel gauge.
▪ She doesn ` t see the fuel gauge needle waving desperately at her, like a drowning arm.
▪ As we headed up Hartshead Moor, I checked my fuel gauge and started sweating again.
▪ A Land Rover mechanic replaced the stabiliser unit behind the dash - the fuel gauge worked again but not the temperature gauge.
▪ The ever-moving needle on the tank-mounted fuel gauge will remind you.
▪ The fuel gauge read a little over half full.
▪ He was installing a fuel gauge on top of the tank when it blew up.
injection
▪ He would outlaw tuning kit like Dynojet's Power Commander, which alters fuel injection and engine management systems.
▪ Voxan's V-twin uses a Magneti Marelli sequential fuel injection system, similar to that used on the 996.
▪ This allows the fuel injection system to be re-mapped to suit the capacity.
▪ Mechanically the entry level Polos remain the same, bar the adoption of fuel injection.
▪ The bike, launched in 1996, was intended to revolutionise two-strokes thanks to Bimota's direct fuel injection technology.
▪ Again, a full engine management system monitors performance and controls the fuel injection and ignition systems.
▪ A replacement policy for fuel injection pumps.
▪ All of the Corsa autos, in fact, use the 1.4i single point fuel injection engine.
oil
▪ The defendants negligently discharged fuel oil into Sydney Harbour.
▪ A similar blend of fuel oil allegedly was used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
▪ Interruptible gas supplies undercut the cost of fuel oil considerably.
▪ He seemed to be taking a shower in fuel oil.
▪ Gas is also competing directly with coal for the heavy fuel oil market.
▪ The treated organic phase is generally suitable for re-use as a fuel oil.
▪ Such products include fuel oil, paint, building materials and fitments, and electronic Components.
▪ Prices of fuel oil, diesel and kerosene were also raised.
price
▪ Governments will be able to meet their targets only if they keep fuel prices high.
▪ A bout of selling on the stock exchange, perhaps, or a cold snap that reopens the fuel price issue.
▪ At least that was the case in Britain, where the gap between petrol and diesel fuel prices has always been small.
▪ S., which created expectations of higher heating fuel prices.
▪ But any rise in fuel prices carries a second issue in its slipstream.
▪ The problem is a temporary one, the analyst added, even though fuel prices have risen this month.
▪ They have shown a total lack of interest in joint action in the face of rising fuel prices.
▪ World commodity prices were set to rise about 7 percent in 1993, with fuel prices alone climbing 9 percent.
shortage
▪ A fuel shortage got the holiday season off to a rocky start, and promises to cause further problems this month.
▪ The decision came in response to an acute fuel shortage which worsened during December.
▪ He had expected to get a $ 100m loan to ease the fuel shortage.
▪ They said there was a fuel shortage.
▪ It rarely suffers the power cuts, fuel shortages and subsiding roads that plague Lagos and other big cities.
supply
▪ They came up with a plot to blockade fuel supplies at depots starting at the weekend.
▪ Even during down times, players must constantly monitor their fuel supply or hunt for more.
▪ However, cuts in capital investment and fuel supply problems have reduced capacity growth to something around 3% per year.
▪ Officials now warn that fuel supplies could be seriously disrupted this winter.
▪ His car barely made it across the finish line, spluttering and choking, before the fuel supply dried up.
▪ Cowpat stoves were everywhere, using the droppings of the cattle that roamed the streets as a mainstream fuel supply.
▪ The foreign exchange crisis has robbed the country of regular fuel supplies.
▪ The rock-solid fuel supply with rock-solid benefits.
tank
▪ Do you know of an auxiliary fuel tank kit for the Ninety?
▪ We had taken a hit on the fuel tank.
▪ Boots often leak, so take a look in the spare wheel well and at the metalwork beneath the fuel tank.
▪ Also on the small side is the 14-gallon fuel tank.
▪ A 34 gallon fuel tank was placed below the cabin floor.
▪ Both versions have the same size fuel tank, which, at 14. 5 gallons, is on the small side.
▪ In front of the second dicky are the aforementioned fuel tank selector, cowl flap, cabin heat and air controls and parking brake.
▪ We then start to accumulate liquid hydrogen in an empty fuel tank.
tax
▪ There are two reasons why the Government is now on the defensive after last week's protests against high fuel tax.
▪ The Commission calls for higher fuel taxes and vehicle excise duty to be used to reduce traffic growth.
▪ The Treasury makes £36 billion every year out of road users, most of it through fuel taxes.
▪ In a bizarre twist, the continuing rise in fuel taxes could force the petrol companies themselves to hike prices further.
▪ Remember that when the deadline expires and fuel tax stays just the same.
▪ It would also be in line with the gradual drift towards fuel tax harmonisation across the Community.
▪ She's gathered 18,000 signatures in Swindon on a petition protesting about the fuel tax.
▪ Next year, the airlines will also will be hit by a proposed increase in fuel tax.
uranium
▪ Harmful quantities of radiation are also released both before and after the uranium fuel enters the power station.
▪ Early in 1995, six more pounds of uranium fuel turned up 1, 500 miles away in Czechoslovakia.
▪ Alongside the other strategic arguments in its favour, the economics of the uranium fuel cycle had been taken for granted.
▪ Bailey emphasized that officials do not want to rupture any of the 236 uranium fuel rods in the lone remaining assembly.
▪ A large nuclear reactor will contain hundreds, if not thousands of rods filled with uranium fuel.
▪ In a power the uranium fuel is normally stacked in disks and contained in fuel rods.
■ VERB
burn
▪ It was recommended to burn off fuel in the fuselage tank to 30 gallons before combat if possible.
▪ We are hastening this process with the burning of fossil fuels.
▪ Then there's even more pollution caused by burning the fuels needed to generate the energy to make new products.
▪ Texas-Lehigh Cement Company in Buda was recently granted a permit to burn tires for fuel.
▪ Do we carry on burning fossil fuels at rapid rates?
▪ The one factor that was actually improving as we labored along was that we were burning a bunch of fuel.
produce
▪ However, environmentalists argue that the costs of producing the fuel must also be taken into account.
▪ Mounted round this fairing were the eight radiators used to vent the excess heat produced by the fuel cells into space.
▪ Development costs could be reduced by expanding these existing nuclear sites which are currently used primarily to produce fuel for military purposes.
▪ In some cases, it is possible to combine several objectives such as the treatment of sewage to produce fuel or food energy.
▪ Long-term storage is favoured by environmentalists as less nuclear waste is produced, although spent fuel can not be stored indefinitely.
provide
▪ They all can provide fuel in the diet and are therefore sources of energy.
▪ Polar ice also would provide hydrogen for rocket fuel and for industrial processes.
▪ In the past, waste was not useless, but provided fuel, building materials and industrial materials, as well as rough grazing.
▪ And they are bound to provide fuel for the opponents of Jospin's proposals.
▪ Then, as now, coal provided the fuel for much the greater part of the country's electricity.
▪ When the war ended, the most pressing need was to provide food and fuel.
▪ People who skip breakfast work less efficiently than people who have taken the trouble to provide themselves with fuel for the morning.
save
▪ Speeding up urban traffic could save 10 percent of fuel, and so cut back on carbon dioxide.
▪ You won't notice the difference, but will save 10% on fuel bill.
▪ In 1942 you were asked not to exceed 5 inches of water in your bath to save fuel.
▪ We also saved a lot of fuel.
▪ Those often cut their engines and drift out of control off Muckle Flugga, possibly to save fuel.
▪ Also, in his view, it saves on fuel and oil costs.
▪ An effective windshield can save time and fuel.
▪ Cheaper that way, they sell stamps and save fuel.
use
▪ Mr Livingstone has offered exemptions for business deliveries and if vehicles use green fuels.
▪ C., will deploy a fuel cell-driven shuttle bus using methanol as a fuel.
▪ In addition to better economy, diesel cars use cheaper fuel and are no less environmentally-friendly than petrol-engined models fitted with catalytic converters.
▪ Without using any fuel, she had increased her speed by several thousand miles an hour.
▪ They were particularly important for the Magnox reactors, which used larger quantities of fuel and had bulkier structures to dismantle.
▪ Brophy said investigators are looking into whether the man was using the fuel to keep warm.
▪ Problems caused by using fuel with a too low octane rating.
▪ Most of the recycled tires have been used for fuel, she said.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
add fuel to the fire/flames
▪ It only added fuel to the fire.
▪ Once the process is under way, empire-building adds fuel to the fire, and more fat to the bureaucracy.
smokeless coal/fuel
▪ If she burned smokeless fuel, the soot problem would disappear.
▪ Real fires Always use smokeless fuel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The fuel tank holds 14 gallons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Officials said they began pumping fuel from the barge before noon Sunday at a rate of 240, 000 gallons an hour.
▪ Such anaerobic respiration is much quicker than aerobic respiration, but also much less efficient in terms of energy produced per unit of fuel.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
controversy
▪ His criticism will fuel controversy about the book on the island, where a film starring Nicolas Cage is being shot.
▪ The Hubble already has helped fuel a raging controversy over the true age of the universe.
demand
▪ Expansion in output was fuelled by growing external demand and generally expansive domestic economic policies.
▪ Failure to correct them only fuels the right-wing demands that obliterate the very protections that liberals cherish.
▪ Rising expectations about the standards of health can therefore be seen as fuelling further demand for health care.
▪ The boom has been fuelled by accelerated demand for consumer products with even small grocery stores receiving up to 12 deliveries every day.
▪ Edith's murder is one of several cases that have fuelled demands for drastic measures to stop child abuse.
fire
▪ Chapter Nine While the ladies were fuelling their fire, in more ways than one, John Coffin was taking a walk.
▪ They often drag down members of their family into their coal cellar of degradation as they fuel the fires of self destruction.
flame
▪ But oxygen tanks fuelled the flames.
▪ The fatty ingredients fuelled the flames and damage was put a more than £1m.
rumours
▪ His absence has fuelled rumours that the house of Lacroix is about to be closed by owner and financial backer Bernard Arnault.
speculation
▪ Yet it is worth remembering that they were fuelled by intense speculation about her marriage.
▪ The logical impenetrability of the administration's calculations at Camp David inevitably fuels speculation about the motivation for convening it.
▪ This fantasy was not fuelled by disinterested speculation but by envy.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
smokeless coal/fuel
▪ If she burned smokeless fuel, the soot problem would disappear.
▪ Real fires Always use smokeless fuel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Easy credit terms helped fuel the economic expansion.
▪ The President's absence from the May Day parade has fuelled speculation that he is seriously ill.
▪ There are growing fears for the safety of the kidnap victims -- fears that have been fuelled by rumours of new terrorist threats.
▪ Workers began fueling the spaceship for liftoff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After dropping off tanks of liquid oxygen to fuel the next ship, you re-enter the atmosphere.
▪ Proving Koch's postulates would of course be unethical and controversy is fuelled by this lack of scientific certainty.
▪ Rising expectations about the standards of health can therefore be seen as fuelling further demand for health care.
▪ Then on Wednesday night he forecast that interest rates would drop - fuelling the City boom.
▪ They have, throughout their exiles, sent us money and resources to help us fuel our movement.
▪ Though Centralism comes in many guises and applications, the basic notions that fuel it are remarkably consistent-as are the results.
▪ Unfortunately, the very psychiatric definition of identity that helped fuel this affirming development also helped fuel a rising prejudice against gays.