Gasohol

Definition: Gasohol

Gasohol

Noun

1. A gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn.

Domain	Definitions
Agriculture	Registered trade name for a blend consisting of 90% unleaded gasoline and 10% fermentation ethanol. Gasohol emissions contain less carbon monoxide than those from gasoline. (references)
Energy	In the United States, gasohol (E10) refers togasoline that contains 10 percent ethanolby volume. This term was used in the late 1970s and early 1980s but has beenreplaced in some areas of the country by terms such as E-10, Super Unleaded PlusEthanol, or Unleaded Plus. (references)
	A registered trademark of an agency of the state of Nebraska, for an automotive fuel containing a blend of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline. (references)
Weather	Vehicle fuel consisting of a mixture of gasoline and ethyl or methyl alcohol; typically 10 to 23 percent ethanol by volume. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
gasohol	English	Gasoline + alcohol	Chemical Industry
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Gasohol

Synonym: Alcohol as fuel. (additional references)

Synonym by domain: gasoline + alcohol (chemical industry).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fuel	Oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline, nitromethane, petrol, gas, juice, gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number oil, number oil, naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Gasohol

Specialty definitions using "gasohol": clean fuels ♦ Gasahol ♦ Motor gasoline. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Gasohol" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Serbo-Croatian (gasohol).

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Zimbabwe	Dependence on petroleum is managed through the price controls for vehicle fuels, the use of gasohol, and the substitution of diesel-electric locomotives on the railway system. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	The Energy Security Act also provides significant incentives for the development of gasohol and biomass fuels, thereby enhancing the nation's supply of alternative energy sources.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Gasohol" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Gasohol" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	60%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	20%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "gasohol"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		ガス焜炉 (background chatter on a soundtrack, chewing gum, gadget, gadget bag, gadolinium, gamelan, gas range, gas station, gasoline, gasoline engine car, gasoline stand, gateau, GATT, gattable, gavotte, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, glass, glass block, glass wool, governability, gut, guts, guts pose, packing tape, pane, petrol). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ガソール , ガソホール . (various references)

Pig Latin		asoholgay.(various references)

Serbo-Croatian		gasohol. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "gasohol": gasohols. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gasohol" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gadocha, Galowhill, garofolo, gasahol, Gateholm, Gazoro, Gischel, passotho, Rasool. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "gasohol" (pronounced ga"suhô'l)
3	-h ô' l	Guildhall, overhaul.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-h-l-o-o-s"
	-1 letter: galosh, golosh.
	-2 letters: gaols, goals, halos, logos, shoal, shool.
	-3 letters: also, gals, gaol, gash, goal, goas, goos, gosh, hags, halo, hogs, hols, lags, lash, logo, logs, loos, oohs, sago, shag, shog, shoo, slag, slog, sola, solo.
	-4 letters: ago, als, ash, gal, gas, goa, goo, gos, hag, hao, has, hog, lag, las, log, loo, oho, ohs, ooh, sag, sal, sha, sol.
	-5 letters: ag, ah, al, as, go, ha, ho, la, lo, oh, os, sh, so.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-h-l-o-o-s"
	+1 letter: gasohols.
	+2 letters: golgothas, holograms, hooligans, logomachs, schoolbag.
	+3 letters: alongshore, goalmouths, halogenous, halogetons, hologamies, holographs, lagomorphs, logographs, logorrheas, oleographs, schoolbags.
	+4 letters: anthologies, anthologist, eschatology, hagiologies, haplologies, homologates, hooliganism, hypoglossal, logomachies, pathologies, pathologist, phraseology, polyphagous, theologians, xylophagous.
	+5 letters: anthologists, anthologizes, archeologies, archeologist, chaulmoogras, cologarithms, graphologies, graphologist, haptoglobins, hematologies, hematologist, histological, holographers, holographies, hooliganisms, hypoglossals, longshoreman, oligochaetes, oligophagies, oligophagous, oscillograph, pathologists, roadholdings, snaggletooth.
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