Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hot refuel

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English

Syllables: hot re-fu-el
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To refuel an aircraft while one of its engines is running.

noun

An instance of hot refueling.

Example Sentences

"The plane's APU was broken and the airport didn't have ground starting equipment, so we had to hot refuel the bird - if we'd shut both engines down, we wouldn't have been able to get them started again."
"Hot refuels require the fueling crew to take great care to avoid getting sucked into the operating engine."

Inflected Forms

hot refuels (present, singular) hot refueling (US, participle) hot refuelling (UK, participle) hot refueled (US, participle) hot refueled (US, past) hot refuelled (UK, participle) hot refuelled (UK, past) hot refuels (plural)

Questions

What does hot refuel mean?: To refuel an aircraft while one of its engines is running.

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