Gasoline

Noun

 * 1)   A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol.
 * So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline? - Robert DeNiro, Backdraft
 * 1)  A certain kind of gasoline.
 * The quality of automobile gasolines varies considerably from one country and producer to another.
 * The X refinery produces a wide range of gasolines.

Synonyms

 * gas
 * petrol

Derived terms

 * gas

Thesaurus
alcohol, avgas, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal, coal, coal oil, coke, combustible, crude, crude oil, dope, electricity, ethane, ethanol, ethyl, ethyl gas, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fossil oil, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, heptane, hexane, high-octane gas, high-test, illuminant, illuminating gas, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, lead-free gas, light source, low-lead gas, luminant, methane, methanol, motor oil, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, peat, pentane, petrol, petroleum, premium gas, propane, propellant, regular, rock oil, rocket fuel, turf

Alternative forms
gasolene (archaic in America, but not in Jamaica)

Etymology
gas + ol(e) + chemical suffix -ine

Pronunciation

 * {{SAMPA|/"g{s.@.li:n/}}

Translations

 * Afrikaans: petrol
 * Arabic: بنزين
 * Moroccan Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: бензін
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: gasolina, benzina
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 汽油 (hei3 yau4)
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: benzin
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: benzine, naft
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * Flemish: benzine
 * French: essence, gas
 * Galician: gasolina
 * Georgian: ბენზინი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: benziina, orsussaq
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पेट्रोल, गैसोलीन,
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 가솔린
 * Latin: benzinium
 * Latvian: benzīns
 * Lithuanian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:, گازولین
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: peatrail
 * Serbo-Croatian: бензин, benzin
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, bencina , nafta
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: gasolina
 * Tajik: бензин (benzin)
 * Taos: gosulínene
 * Thai: เบนซิน, แกโซลีน
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, پٹرول,  گیسولین
 * Vietnamese: dầu xăng,
 * Yiddish: גאזאלין


 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 汽油 (hei3 yau4)
 * Mandarin:


 * Finnish: bensiinilaatu

Noun
gasoline



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