- pronunciation:
- gae
s
lin
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer
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noun |
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Gasoline is a liquid that burns. It is used as a fuel for engines in cars and many other machines. Gasoline is made from a kind of oil that comes from inside the earth.
Our new car doesn't need as much gasoline to make it run as our old car did.
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The word
gasoline is a combination of the word "gas" and a form of the word "oil," and was first used in 1871. "Gas'" comes from
chaos, an ancient Greek word that means "empty space."