"fuel oil" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-uk-fuel oil.ogg [UK] Forms: fuel oils [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} fuel oil (usually uncountable, plural fuel oils)
  1. Any of various grades of oil used principally as fuel. Wikidata QID: Q214199 Tags: uncountable, usually Hypernyms: oil, fuel Coordinate_terms: motor oil, engine oil, lubricating oil
    Sense id: en-fuel_oil-en-noun-en:Q214199
  2. Any of various grades of oil used principally as fuel.
    The heaviest commercial fuel that can be obtained from crude oil.
    Wikidata QID: Q214199 Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: bunker oil, bunker fuel, bunker Hypernyms: oil, fuel Coordinate_terms: motor oil, engine oil, lubricating oil
    Sense id: en-fuel_oil-en-noun-en:Q2141991 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Petroleum Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 63 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 37 63 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 38 62 Disambiguation of Petroleum: 24 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ANFO (english: ammonium nitrate–fuel oil)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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