- gasoline
- gas·o·line
English syllables. 2014.
gasoline
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Gasoline — (Брешелло,Италия) Категория отеля: 2 звездочный отель Адрес: Via Cisa 201, 42041 Брешелло … Каталог отелей
Gasoline — Gas o*line, Gasolene Gas o*lene(? or ?; 104), 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Gasoline — [ gæsəliːn; englisch, zu gas »Gas«, »Treibstoff« und lateinisch oleum »Öl«] das, s, englische Bezeichnung für Benzin … Universal-Lexikon
gasoline — UK US /ˈgæsəliːn/ noun [U] US FORMAL NATURAL RESOURCES, TRANSPORT ► GAS(Cf. ↑gas) … Financial and business terms
gasoline — 1864 (alternative spelling gasolene is from 1865), from GAS (Cf. gas) + OL (Cf. ol) (probably here representing L. oleum oil ) + chemical suffix INE (Cf. ine) (2). Shortened form gas was in common use in U.S. by 1897. Gas station as a fuel… … Etymology dictionary
gasoline — is the AmE term for what in BrE is called petrol, a volatile liquid obtained from petroleum. This spelling is preferred to gasolene, but the word is normally used in its shortened form gas. See gas … Modern English usage
gasoline — [n] fuel diesel fuel, gasohol, juice*, oil, petrol, propellant; concepts 467,520,523,661 … New thesaurus
gasoline — (also gasolene) ► NOUN N. Amer. ▪ petrol … English terms dictionary
gasoline — ☆ gasoline [gas΄ə lēn′, gas′ə lēn΄ ] n. [ GAS + OL2 + INE3] a volatile, highly flammable, colorless liquid mixture of hydrocarbons produced by the fractional distillation of petroleum and used chiefly as a fuel in internal combustion engines:… … English World dictionary
Gasoline — This article is about the fuel and industrial solvent. For other uses, see Gasoline (disambiguation). Petrol redirects here. For other uses, see Petrol (disambiguation). For the bird group, see petrel. A jar containing gasoline … Wikipedia
gasoline — gasolineless, adj. gasolinic /gas euh lee nik, lin ik/, adj. /gas euh leen , gas euh leen /, n. a volatile, flammable liquid mixture of hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, and used as fuel for internal combustion engines, as a solvent, etc.… … Universalium
