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hot refuel

hot refuel verb: to refuel an aircraft while one of its engines is running.

Verb

hot refuel (third-person singular simple present hot refuels, present participle (US) hot refueling or (UK) hot refuelling, simple past and past participle (US) hot refueled or (UK) hot refuelled)

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

Noun

hot refuel (plural hot refuels)

  1. An instance of hot refueling.
    • Hot refuels require the fueling crew to take great care to avoid getting sucked into the operating engine.

Forms of hot refuel

Verb
third-person singular presenthot refuels
present participle UShot refueling
present participle UKhot refuelling
past participle UShot refueled
past UShot refueled
past participle UKhot refuelled
past UKhot refuelled
Noun
pluralhot refuels

Questions about hot refuel

What does hot refuel mean?
Hot refuel means to refuel an aircraft while one of its engines is running.
What part of speech is hot refuel?
Hot refuel can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of hot refuel?
The past tense of hot refuel is hot refueled.

Words near hot refuel in the dictionary

  1. hot rack
  2. hot rail
  3. hot rails
  4. hot reactor
  5. hot reactors
  6. hot refuel
  7. hot refueled
  8. hot refueling
  9. hot refuelled
  10. hot refuelling
  11. hot refuels

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