oil-fired
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- adjective
- /ˈɔɪlˌfaɪrd/
- Many rural homes rely on oil-fired systems for their heating needs, especially in colder climates.
- oil-fired furnace
- oil-fired boiler
- oil-fired heater
Examples
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You can't get rid of all the pesky coal and oil-fired power plants and still get electrical power in California, for example.
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Compare that with the tons of airborne pollutants produced by every single coal or oil-fired plant; it's no comparison.
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Every single gas or oil fired central heating system has a blue flame.
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Interestingly enough, I'm almost finished dismantling our old oil-fired heat and hot water system.
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There should be a possibility of truck-mounted mobile gas or oil-fired electric generators, even if it can only provide smaller amounts compared to the grid.
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Self-generation by fossil fuels is classified as either oil-fired generation or non-oil-fired generation.
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In 1965, however, I spent a birthday with tunnelers building what was, for those days, a large (1 GW) oil-fired power station next to a major oil docking point for supertankers from the ME.
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Time and distance normally would have precluded me from being able to make this important announcement, but through the DLT technology, I was pleased to be able to announce funding for the hospital to convert to a wood chip biomass boiler system, replacing three oil-fired boilers that are 50 years old.
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Hydro is usually the cheapest (on the left), followed by nuclear and/or coal, and then you have gas-fired plants and CHP (combined heat and power) plants, followed to the far right by peaker plants, usually gas- or oil-fired.
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The apartment is heated by an oil-fired boiler that keeps the rooms warm in winter.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oil-fired is made from the two simple words oil and fire, meaning 'oil' and 'fire'. So an oil-fired heater or boiler is one that runs on burning oil to make heat.