Gasoline Definition

găsə-lēn, găsə-lēn
noun
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.
Webster's New World
(countable) 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.
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adjective
Made from or using gasoline.
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Other Word Forms of Gasoline

Noun

Singular:
gasoline
Plural:
gasolines

Origin of Gasoline

  • From Cazeline (possibly influenced by Gazeline, the name of an Irish copy), a brand of petroleum-derived lighting oil, from the surname of the man who first marketed it in 1862, John Cassell, and the suffix –eline, from Greek ἔλαιον (elaion, “oil, olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”).

    From Wiktionary

  • gas –ol(e) –ine

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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