gasoline
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1.6
- noun
- /ˈɡæsəˌlin/
- US
:
gasolina
- With rising demand for cars, the price of gasoline continues to increase.
- gasoline prices
- unleaded gasoline
- sell gasoline
Don't those people eat rocks and drink gasoline anyway?
- Don't those people eat rocks and drink gasoline anyway?
- Standards for motor vehicles or taxes on gasoline and why?
- A car leaks gasoline sometimes or can leak.
- It should fully reflect a full month of high gasoline prices in in at the pumps.
- What joules about a tank of gasoline.
- Trucks, lorries, cookies, biscuits, trash, rubbish, gasoline, petrol and so on.
Examples
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China has also sold gasoline to Iran even as other suppliers have had to halt their sales.
Academic text (2011) -
The gasoline in the tank!
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Is that gasoline I smell?
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This works with gasoline as well as with electricity.
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As you know, water is more valuable than gasoline in that area.
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The truck was filled with gasoline.
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Such an improvement would cut gasoline demand by 4%, or 2% of total transportation oil consumption.
Academic text (1999) -
Well, on the highway, you're burning gasoline to fight drag.
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You stink of gasoline.
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A car screeched away from the curb, and the gasoline fumes began to waft through the window.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
787
1.0
A liquid fuel used in car engines
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1.4
A liquid fuel that cars use in their engines
A liquid that can burn and is used as fuel for cars and machines
Idioms
Compounds
- US
13
3.4
Extra money that the government adds to the price of fuel to pay for roads and bridges
- Specialized
4
3.2
A machine that burns gasoline to make power for vehicles and machines
- NSFW
1
7.4
A simple weapon that uses a bottle of gasoline and a cloth wick to start fires
How Energy-Dense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gasoline begins with gas, which means 'fuel you burn', and ends with -oline, an ending seen in other fuel words like kerosene, so you can remember gasoline as the fuel you put in a car.