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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines [syn: gasoline, gasolene, gas, petrol]

Merriam Webster's

also gasolene noun Etymology: ¹gas + ²-ol + ²-ine or -ene Date: 1865 a volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel especially for internal combustion engines and usually blended from several products of natural gas and petroleum • gasolinic adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also gasolene) 1 a volatile inflammable liquid distilled from petroleum and used for heating and lighting. 2 US petrol. Etymology: GAS + -OL(2) + -INE(4), -ENE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gasoline Gas"o*line, or Gasolene engine Gas"o*lene, en"gine . (Mach.) A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gasoline Gas"o*line (? or ?; 104), n. A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Gasoline is the same as petrol. (AM)

Moby Thesaurus

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