单词 | gasoline |
释义 | gasolinen. Now chiefly North American. Originally: a light fuel oil made by the fractional distillation of petroleum, used for heating and lighting (cf. gas oil n. at gas n.1 and adj. Compounds 3). Subsequently: a similar petroleum distillate used as motor fuel; = petrol n. 3. Cf. gas n.2 ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > liquid naphthec1384 naphtha1543 paraffin1851 kerosene1854 octylene1857 shale-oil1857 coal oil1859 gasoline1863 octane1867 octene1868 octyne1877 gas1878 liquid fuel1889 petrol1895 mazut1897 white fuel1901 diesel oil1905 autogas1908 juice1909 sauce1918 power kerosene1919 petroil1921 ethyl1923 lox1923 kero1930 isooctane1932 high-octane1933 hi-octane1933 Calor1936 pool petrol1939 super1939 pool1940 derv1948 platformate1949 mixture1952 diesel1953 Mapp gas1962 gasohol1971 super unleaded1975 synoil1976 synjet1979 biodiesel1986 Orimulsion1987 1863 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 12 Sept. 8/5 (advt.) Best and cheapest burning oils for the winter... Refined colza, gasolene, petrolene. 1864 U.S. Excise Tax Law: Act to Provide Internal Revenue §94. 59 Naptha of specific gravity exceeding eighty degrees, according to Baume's hydrometer, and of the kind usually known as gasoline, shall be subject to a tax of five per centum ad valorem. 1871 Temple Bar Oct. 388 No gas in Trefavon; no petroline, paraffine, gazoline, or any other subtle ine to make day in night. 1883 Cent. Mag. July 338/1 No fewer than ten substances are obtained from petroleum by the refining process..2nd, gasolene, used in artificial gas machines. 1895 New Rev. Oct. 392 Of the petroleum vehicle..it may be said that it owes much of its extreme lightness to its modesty in the matter of fuel. A few pints of gasolene or rectified petroleum will suffice it for five or six hours. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 27/3 (advt.) Heavy cars cost too much for tires and gasoline. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 May 381/3 If you must do your own dry-cleaning, use carbon tetrachloride, not the perilous petrol (which Americans call gasolene). 1951 Manch. Guardian Weekly 15 Feb. 5 Gasolene, kerosene, and other petroleum products are smuggled out. 1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture ii. 84 On the tailgate was a can of gasoline that was leaking onto the street. 1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) iii. lxii. 966 Douse it in gasoline and burn it. 2008 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 78/1 With oil prices at historic highs, the quest is on to turn..plant materials into a replacement for gasoline. Compounds C1. General attributive, as gasoline station, gasoline pump, etc. ΚΠ 1867 Boston Daily Advertiser 21 Oct. The gasoline works at the mouth of the shaft exploded, setting fire to the building. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 June 6/3 Cooking breakfast over a gasoline stove. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 4 Aug. 10/1 The winner became unconscious..through the gasolene fumes. 1917 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 15 July 1/2 The foot which controls the gasoline-pedal. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 13 July 1/3 Albert..attended the gasoline station of Corfield Motors. 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Apr. 10/6 Reduced gasoline rations will bring more Hamiltonians this summer to nearby parks for recreation. 1969 Pop. Mech. June 128/2 There are no gasoline pumps in the new ‘pumpless petrol station’ in Birmingham, England. 1971 Sci. Amer. Dec. 48/3 Isomerization increases the compactness of gasoline molecules, thereby improving the fuel's antiknock quality. 1982 J. S. Coleman Asymmetric Society 52 On nontoll interstate highways there are exits to access roads, and at many of these exits gasoline stations and restaurants have been established. 1990 Arizona Daily Star 14 Mar. b1/4 Supervisors could impose both the gasoline tax and the license fee. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Oct. b6/6 A plug-in vehicle with a range-extending gasoline engine. C2. gasoline buggy n. now historical a motor car; cf. gas buggy n. at gas n.2 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1901 Logansport (Indiana) Daily Reporter 4 Dec. 3/2 He is catapulted through space by the explosion of a ‘gasoline buggy’. 1955 Pop. Mech. Feb. 164/2 Gasoline buggies did frighten horses and no wonder—they even frightened humans at times. 2009 P. Tertzakian & K. Hollihan End of Energy Obesity ii. 31 When his ‘gasoline buggy’ was ready for the road, Ford had to knock away part of the wall of his garage to make the doorway entrance big enough for the car. gasoline direct injection n. a method of fuel injection designed to increase fuel efficiency in motor vehicles, in which petrol is injected directly into the engine's combustion chambers without the use of a carburettor; abbreviated GDI. ΚΠ 1987 T. Sato & M. Nakayama (SAE Techn. Paper Series) (title) Gasoline direct injection for a loop-scavenged two-stroke cycle engine. 1998 Northern Echo (Nexis) 24 Nov. 2 The secret is gasoline direct injection, a new way of introducing petrol into the engine for combustion. 2000 Driving Mag. Mar. 22/2 Powered by the acclaimed 118 bhp, 1.8 GDI (gasoline direct injection) engine the Pinin provides a useful companion around town. 2005 Ebony Nov. 262 The Mazdaspeed6..is powered by a gasoline direct-injection turbocharged drivetrain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1863 |
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