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FUELWOOD

Specialty Definition: FUELWOOD

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Food & Agriculture

Wood, round, cleft or sawn, and generally otherwise refuse material cut into short lengths or hogged(hog fuel)for burning. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: FUELWOOD

Synonyms: Firewood, Fuel wood, Wood as fuel, Wood fuel, Woodpiles. (additional references)

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Crosswords: FUELWOOD

Specialty definitions using "FUELWOOD": traditional fuel use, traditional fuel use-kt of oil equivalent. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: FUELWOOD

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Economic History

Zambia

The catch rose from 40,000 tons in 1982 to 70,000 tons in 1994. Half of Zambia's land area is covered by forest with a few commercially exploitable species; indigenous forests are sources of sawn timber, poles, mining timber, and fuelwood. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: FUELWOOD

"FUELWOOD" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FUELWOOD" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4054,274

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FUELWOOD

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

charcoal delonix firewood fuelwood regia

3

fuelwood inc southern

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: FUELWOOD

Language Translations for "FUELWOOD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

braende (calcine, firewood, roast, wood fuel). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kachelhout (firewood, wood fuel), brandhout (firewood). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

polttopuu (firewood, wood fuel). (various references)

   

French

  

bois de feu (wood fuel), bois de chauffage (wood fuel), bois à brûler (wood fuel). (various references)

   

German

  

Scheitholz (firewood, wood fuel), Brennholz (firewood). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καυσόξυλο (firewood, wood fuel). (various references)

   

Italian

  

legna da fuoco (firewood, wood fuel), legna da bruciare (firewood, wood fuel), legna da ardere (firewood), legna (wood). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uelwoodfay

   

Portuguese

  

madeira para combustível (firewood, wood fuel), lenha (firewood, timber, wood). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

madera para calefacción (firewood, wood fuel), leña (brush, brushwood, firewood, fuel, wood). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

brännved (firewood, wood fuel). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: FUELWOOD

Derivations

Words beginning with "FUELWOOD": fuelwoods. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FUELWOOD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-l-o-o-u-w"

-2 letters: dewool, flowed, fooled, fouled, fowled, woeful, wolfed, woofed, wooled.

-3 letters: dowel, flood, flued, looed, lowed, woful, wooed, would.

-4 letters: delf, dole, duel, feod, feud, fled, flew, floe, flow, flue, fold, food, fool, foul, fowl, fuel, leud, lewd, lode, loof, loud, lowe, lude, oleo, owed, weld, wold, wolf, wood, woof, wool.

-5 letters: del, dew, doe.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-f-l-o-o-u-w"
 

+1 letter: fuelwoods, outflowed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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