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单词 gasoline
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gasolinen.

Brit. /ˈɡasəliːn/, /ˌɡasəˈliːn/, U.S. /ˈɡæsəlin/, /ˌɡæsəˈlin/
Forms: 1800s gasoleine (rare), 1800s– gasolene, 1800s– gasoline, 1800s– gazoline (rare), 1900s– gaseline (rare).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: gas n.1, -ol suffix, -ine suffix5, -ene comb. form.
Etymology: < gas n.1 + -ol suffix + -ine suffix5. With the form gasolene compare -ene comb. form. Compare slightly earlier kerosolene n.For the likely semantic motivation, compare earlier gas oil n. at gas n.1 and adj. Compounds 3. It is perhaps possible that the adoption of this name may also have been influenced by the existence of cazeline as a commercial name for lighting oil. From 1862 John Cassell sold lighting oil in London under the name cazeline (compare quot. 1862); the first element of this name presumably shows an alteration of Cassell's surname. A commercial rival in Dublin was found to be selling the same product under the altered name gazeline (compare quot. 1865; found in advertisements from 1864). As the following quots. show, the name cazeline continued in currency into the early 20th cent., although the formal resemblance to gasoline may have had no influence on the latter word's widespread adoption:1862 Times 27 Nov. 15/3 (advt.) The Patent Cazeline Oil possesses all the requisites which have so long been desired as a means of powerful artificial light..For terms apply to Cassell, Smith, and Co.1863 Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania) 9 Dec. 1/4 Just opened a cask of the Patent Fumivore Lamps, (English) for burning all Hydro-Carbon Oil..Kerosene Oil at 4s., and English Cazeline at 5s. 6d. per gallon.1865 Solicitors Jrnl. & Reporter 4 Mar. 368 The respondent was selling another article under the name ‘Cazeline’. The ‘C’ of this word was, however, by a stroke of a pen made ‘G’, so that the word affected to appear ‘Gazeline’.1866 Lancet 17 Feb. 191/2 Sir,—Will some of your numerous readers kindly give some particulars respecting the following oils, now in use..Photogine, petroline, paraffin, and cazeline.1871 Zell's Pop. Encycl. II. 599/1 P[etroleum] is sold in innumerable quantities under the names of petroleum, naptha, saxoline, leucaline, cazeline, belmontine, and a hundred other cognomens, more or less euphonious.1920 H. Moore Liquid Fuels (ed. 2) 193 Mineral Burning Oils.—Suitable for burning with a wick, e.g., belmontine oil, cazeline oil, colzarine oil, mineral colza oil, mineral seal oil, mineral sperm oil, pyronaphtha.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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