gasoline

• gasolene (archaic in America, but not in Jamaica)

From Cazeline (possibly influenced by Gazeline, the name of an Irish copy), a brand of petroleum-derived lighting oil,[1] from the surname of the man who first marketed it in 1862, John Cassell,[2] and the suffix –eline, from Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “oil, olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Gasolene is found from 1863, and gasoline from 1864.[3]

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæs.ə.lin/ US, dialectal: /gæsl̩ ˈin/, /gæsˈlin/, [gæˈsɵlin], or [gæsɵˈlin]

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• Rhymes: -iːn

gasoline (usually uncountable, plural gasolines)

1. (uncountable, Canada, US) A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol.
   • 1864, Congress of the United States, Internal Revenue Act §94:

     […] naphtha of specific gravity exceeding eighty degrees ... and of the kind usually known as gasoline, shall be subject to a tax of five per centum ad valorem.

   • 1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft:

     So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?

   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "," 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.

2. (countable) Any specific kind of gasoline.

   The refinery produces a wide range of gasolines.

Gasoline is defined by its combustion properties rather than by chemical composition, which is quite variable.

• gas (North America)
• petrol (UK, Australia)

• gas (North America)

gasoline (not comparable)

1. Made from or using gasoline.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎:

     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: […] .

gasoline f

1. plural of gasolina

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