Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See alcohol.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH3-CH2-OH.
- n. Specifically, this alcohol as a fuel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) The organic compound C2H5.OH, the common
alcohol which is the intoxicating agent in beer, wine, and other fermented and distilled liquors; called alsoethyl alcohol . It is used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions, or mixed in gasoline as a fuel for automobiles, and as a rocket fuel (as in the V-2 rocket).
WordNet 3.0
- n. the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline
Etymologies
- Contracted from ethyl + alcohol. Ethyl is from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithēr, "ether"), influenced by German Äthyl. (Wiktionary)
- ethan(e) + -ol1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Continuing our nation's investment in ethanol is one way we can challenge our global competitors.”
The Huffington Post: Jeff Simmons: Winning the Race for Renewable Energy
“Corn-based ethanol is economically inefficient and the US does not have the climate, or many climatic areas, where sugar cane can can be grown cheaply and efficiently enough to provide sugar cane-based ethanol, which is seven times more efficient than corn-based.”
“Some studies that contend that ethanol is a net energy loser include (incorrectly) the energy of the sun used to grow a feedstock in ethanol’s energy balance, which misses the fundamental point that the sun’s energy is free.”
Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Ethanol, Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide
“The reason that we don't import sugar based ethanol is not that it is hard to transport.”
Energy Economics and Politics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Since the use of ethanol is dictated more by government subsidies and regulation than by sound engineering or economics, it's just not worth the investment (or risk).”
Energy Economics and Politics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Politically though, ethanol is probably a loser until the greenhouse gas issue dies down.”
Ethanol Enthusiasts, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“First, the energy content of ethanol is low when compared with gasoline or diesel.”
Dissing Ethanol, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Such wonders were possible because the EPA lifted the cap on how much ethanol is allowed to be mixed into gasoline to meet the annual consumption mandates in the 2007 energy bill, which will rise to 36 billion gallons by 2022.”
“Until last week, this per-gallon "blend wall" stood at 10%, because ethanol is highly corrosive and can damage engines and exhaust systems and impair other features.”
“David Friedman of the Union of Concerned Scientists says the key with ethanol is to avoid trading food for fuel.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ethanol’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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Beer and Brewing
Words about beer and the making of it.
airlock, bung, carboy, diversol, hops, mashtun, beer, sparge, trub, wort, malt, malt liquor and 184 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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AGRI - sugar sector
Terms used in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy referring to policy issues in the sugar sector.
HU translations: arable crops, bioethanol distil..., bioethanol outlet, cereals, chicory, common market org..., Everything But Ar..., energy crops, export refund, Generalised Syste..., intervention price, inuline syrup and 83 more... -
reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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