Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A volatile mixture of flammable liquid hydrocarbons derived chiefly from crude petroleum and used principally as a fuel for internal-combustion engines.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable (North America) A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol.
- n. countable A certain kind of gasoline.
- adj. Made from or using gasoline.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained mostly from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used as a fuel for most automobiles and for many other vehicles with internal combustion engines. The
gasoline of commerce is typically blended with additives to improve its performance in internal combustion engines.Gasoline was also used in the early 1900's in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See carburetor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
Etymologies
- gas + -ol + chemical suffix -ine (Wiktionary)
- gas + -ol(e) + -ine2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Given the nature of the your editorial "The Ethanol Bailout" (Oct. 18), it may come a surprise that I agree with the Journal that the EPA's decision to allow more ethanol use in gasoline is not based on all the science.”
The Wall Street Journal: More Ethanol in Gasoline Represents Energy Progress
“Imagine if all the costs for basic individual worker survival were treated in like manner to gasoline is to the airline industry.”
Income Redistribution Proposals, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“First of all, what we call a gasoline pump is actually a gasoline dispenser.”
More From the “Economic Naturalist” Robert Frank - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
“And that's, you know, it's really coming from the consumption side and those figures do include ethanol, when it's blended with gasoline that becomes part of the, what we call gasoline, just for those of you are asking that.”
“While I don’t like demagoguery either, I think a good case can be made that the current price inflation in gasoline is the result of deliberate price manipulation.”
“A three hours drive from Guadalajara to Manzanillo @ 180 miles cost 300.00 mexican pesos @ US $ 23.00 and the price of gasoline is about the same as in United States.”
“The recession that brought back $2 gasoline is about to bring back to casual dining another retro price point: $5 meals.”
“The surprise increase in gasoline, coupled with tax increases and some services take us in despite increases between 8 and 10 percent for next year in food.”
“Firstly, no one has advocated a $2.50 increase in gasoline prices.”
Energy Diversification, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“That's predicated on the assumption that the long-run price elasticity of demand for gasoline is 0.2.”
Energy Diversification, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gasoline’.
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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.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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Americanism
American words
finest, fast food, acclimate, aluminum, alphabetize, airplane, affirmative action, arugula, backhoe, bangs, base board, bayou and 162 more...
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Mandles, Candles for Men
candles with a "manly" scent
a1 steak sauce, baseball glove, grillin' out, campfire, pigskin, bowling alley, musty locker room, chuck norris sweat, urinal deodorizer, bait shop, wet dog, hardware store and 210 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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Things that smell better than they taste
See also Things that taste better than they smell.
coffee, gasoline, shampoo, petrol, paint, cut grass, baby, hair, mudflats, bicycle, coal, naphtha and 36 more...
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Man Unmade
As we plod and pillage our way through another century, words our great-grandchildren likely won't have a use for...for better or worse.
bucolic, gasoline, farmer, cold, rainforest, incurable, rusticate, landlubber, martial law, polar bear, polar ice cap, nuclear winter and 1 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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nighthawks at the diner
being words from Tom Waits songs.
vinyl, cigarette, rhinestone, naugahyde, margarine, vermouth, gin, platinum, wurlitzer, menthol, oldsmobile, asphalt and 90 more...
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dyy's Words
ambivalence, irony, double-edged sword, paradox, struggle, plunge, buoy, pigeon-hole, ultimately, status quo, fuel, undermine and 230 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Did Someone Say a Dinner Party?
It's a hazardous world out there...poison all around. I've tried not to include too many drugs (including medicines) and have ignored the fact that too much of anything can poison you. We're going ...
cyanide, botulinum, chlorine, mustard gas, hydrogen cyanide gas, mercury, arsenic, ricin, strychnine, aconite, acetic acid, acetone and 147 more...
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lines
line-know-of-them
guy line, chorus line, party line, front line, foul line, life line, love line, bottom line, red line, credit line, by line, dotted line and 106 more...
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MadShrubbery's Words
sparkle, shimmer, enthralled, alliteration, gasoline, shrubbery, sensation, white, sapphire, crimson, emerald, pearl and 29 more...
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OM3 Lesson 32
donuts, doughnuts, used, dozen, dozens, variety, carpool, gasoline, gas, gallon, million, a day and 38 more...
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introduction to death
words that cause death,or defines death.
detonate, explosive, ammunition, rocket, shrapnel, grenade, nitroglycerin, propellant, fireworks, fuel, combustible, electricity and 62 more...
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Breathe In, Breathe Out
Stuff I like the smell of.
gasoline, permanent markers, cigars, menthol, spearmint, coffee, hot chocolate, cedar, pie, fresh bread, popcorn, coconut and 6 more...
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