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Alternative forms
gasolene (archaic in America, but not in Jamaica)
Etymology
gas + -ol + chemical suffix -ine
Pronunciation
Noun
gasoline (usually uncountable; plural gasolines)
- (uncountable) (North America) 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? - 1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
- (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.
Usage notes
Gasoline is defined by its combustion properties rather than by chemical composition, which is quite variable.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
motor fuel
- Afrikaans: petrol (af)
- Albanian: benzinë (sq) f, gazolinë (sq) f
- Arabic: بنزين (ar) (banzīn) m
- Moroccan Arabic: ليسانص (lisanṣ) (l'essence)
- Armenian: բենզին (hy) (benzin)
- Azeri: benzin (az)
- Basque: esantza (eu), gasolina (eu)
- Belarusian: бензін (be) (benzín) m
- Bengali: পেট্রল (bn) (peţrôl)
- Bulgarian: бензин (bg) (benzín) m
- Burmese: ဓာတ်ဆီ (my) (da' hsi)
- Catalan: gasolina (ca) f, benzina (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 汽油 (hei3 yau4)
- Mandarin: 汽油 (cmn) (qìyóu)
- Crimean Tatar: benzin
- Czech: benzín (cs) m
- Danish: benzin (da) c
- Dutch: benzine (nl) f, naft (nl) (Belgium, slang)
- Estonian: bensiin (et)
- Faroese: bensin (fo) n
- Finnish: bensiini (fi)
- Flemish: benzine
- French: essence (fr) f, gas (fr) m (Canada)
- Georgian: ბენზინი (ka) (benzini)
- German: Benzin (de) n
- Greek: βενζίνη (el) (venzíni) f
- Greenlandic: benziina (kl), orsussaq (kl)
- Gujarati: પેટ્રોલ (gu) (peṭrol) f
- Hebrew: בֶּנזִין (he) (benzin) m
- Hindi: पेट्रोल (hi) (peṭrol), गैसोलीन (hi) (gaisolīn), बेंज़ीन (hi) (benzīn)
- Hungarian: benzin (hu)
- Icelandic: bensín (is) n
- Indonesian: bensin (id), petrol (id)
- Italian: benzina (it) f
- Japanese: ガソリン (ja) (gasorin)
- Kannada: ಪೆಟ್ರೋಲು (kn) (peṭrōlu)
- Kazakh: бензин (kk) (benzïn)
- Khmer: ប្រេងសាំង (km) (preɛng sang), សាំង (km) (sang)
- Korean: 가솔린 (ko) (gasollin)
- Kyrgyz: бензин (ky) (benzin)
- Lao: ນ້ຳມັນແອັດຊັງ (lo) (nam man æt sang)
- Latin: benzinium (la) m
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- Latvian: benzīns (lv) m
- Lithuanian: benzinas (lt) m
- Macedonian: бензин (mk) (bénzin) m
- Malay: petrol (ms), bensin (ms)
- Malayalam: പെട്രോളിയം (ml)
- Maltese: petrol (mt) m
- Maori: penehini (mi)
- Mongolian: бензин (mn) (benzin), газолин (mn) (gazolin)
- Navajo: chidí bitooʼ
- Norwegian: bensin (no) m
- Papiamentu: gasolin
- Persian: بنزین (fa) (benzin), گازولین (fa) (gâzulin)
- Polish: benzyna (pl) f
- Portuguese: gasolina (pt) f
- Romanian: benzină (ro) f
- Russian: бензин (ru) (benzín) m
- Samoan: kesi (sm)
- Scottish Gaelic: peatrail
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бензин (sh) m
- Roman: benzin (sh) m
- Slovak: benzín (sk) m
- Slovene: bencin (sl) m
- Spanish: gasolina (es) f, bencina f (Chile, Peru), nafta f (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay)
- Swahili: petroli (sw)
- Swedish: bensin (sv) c
- Tagalog: gasolina (tl)
- Tajik: бензин (tg) (benzin)
- Tamil: கல்நெய் (ta) (kalney)
- Taos: gosulínene
- Telugu: గ్యాసోలిన్ (te) (gyāsōlin)
- Thai: เบนซิน (th) (bayn-sin), แกโซลีน (th) (gae-soh-leen)
- Tok Pisin: bensin (tpi)
- Turkish: benzin (tr), petrol (tr)
- Turkmen: benzin (tk)
- Ukrainian: бензин (uk) (benzýn) m
- Urdu: بنزین (ur) (benzīn), پٹرول (ur) (peṭrōl), گیسولین (ur) (gaisolīn)
- Uzbek: benzin (uz)
- Vietnamese: dầu xăng (vi), xăng (vi)
- Volapük: bänsin (vo)
- Welsh: gasoline (cy) f, petrol (cy) m
- Yiddish: גאזאלין (yi) (gazolin)
- Zulu: uphetiloli (zu)
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countable: a particular kind of gasoline
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 汽油 (hei3 yau4)
- Mandarin: 汽油 (cmn) (qìyóu)
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- Finnish: bensiinilaatu (fi)
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Adjective
gasoline (not comparable)
- Made from or using gasoline.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, Internal Combustion[2]:
- If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
