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Gasolene

Definition: Gasolene

Gasolene

Noun

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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gasolene" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1909. (references)

Synonyms: Gasolene

Synonyms: gas (n), gasoline (n), petrol (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Gasolene

English words defined with "gasolene": hydrocracking. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Gasolene

"Gasolene" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gasolene" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Gasolene

Expression using "gasolene": Gasolene engine. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gasolene

Language Translations for "gasolene"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

petrol (gasoline, petrol). (various references)

   

Danish

  

benzin (benzine, gasoline, naphta, petrol, sprit). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

benzine (benzine, fuel, gas, gasoline, motor gasoline, naphta, petrol, sprit). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

benzino (gasoline, petrol). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

گازولین , بنزین (Gas). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

bentsiini (benzine, gas, gasol|ine, petrol), bensiini (benzine, gas, gasol|ine, petrol). (various references)

   

French

  

essence (gas, gasoline, motor gasoline). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

benzin (benzine, gas, gasoline, juice, petrol). (various references)

   

Irish

  

beinsín (gasoline, petrol). (various references)

   

Italian

  

gasolina (gasoline), benzina (benzine, fuel, gas, gasoline, naphta, petrol, sprit). (various references)

   

Manx

  

pedryl (fuel, juice, petrol), gasaleen. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

bensin (gasoline, petrol). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asolenegay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

gasolina (essential, gas, gasoline, gasoline filter, juice, naphta, petrol, sprit). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бензин (benzine, gas, gasoline, juice, petrol). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gasolina (benzine, gas, gasoline, juice, naphta, petrol, sprit). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bensin (benzine, gas, gasoline, juice, petrol, petroleum). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gazolin (gasoline), benzin (benzine, benzoline, fuel, gas, gasoline, juice, petrol). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

газолін (gasoline, petrol), бензин (benzine, gas, gasoline, petrol). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

dầu xăng (gasoline, petrol), dầu lửa (gasoline, kerosene). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Gasolene

Derivations

Words beginning with "gasolene": gasolenes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Gasolene"

Words rhyming with "gasolene" (pronounced 'Gas`o*lene'): Acetylene, Allylene, Amylene, Butylene, Conylene, Cottolene, Crotonylene, Diamylene, Eikosylene, Hellene, Mesitylene, Naphthalene, Nonylene, Paranaphthalene, Philhellene, Piperylene, Plene, Rhigolene, Rutylene, Stelene, Styrolene, Tercellene, Terpilene, Thallene, Thiotolene, Tridecatylene, Xanthoxylene, Xylene. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Gasolene

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-n-o-s"

-1 letter: enolase.

-2 letters: agenes, agones, aneles, angels, angles, anoles, eagles, genoas, gleans, lanose, leones, logans, longes, senega, slogan.

-3 letters: aeons, agene, aglee, agone, agons, aloes, alone, along, anele, angel, angle, anole, eagle, easel, elans, enols, gales, gaols, genes, genoa, glans, glean, glees, glens, goals, lanes, leans, lease, leges, lenes, lenos, lense, leone, loans, logan, loges, longe, longs, noels, ogees, ogles, salon, segno, slang, solan.

-4 letters: aeon, agee, ages, agon, alee, ales, aloe, also, anes, ease, eels, egal, egos, elan, else, engs, enol, eons, gaen, gaes, gale, gals, gane, gaol, gees, gels, gene, gens, glee, glen, goal, goas, goes, gone, lags, lane, lang, lase, lean, leas, lees, legs, leno, lens, loan, loge, logs, lone, long, lose, nags, naos, noel, noes, nogs, nose, ogee, ogle, olea, oles, ones, sage, sago, sale, sane, sang, seal, seel, seen, sego, sene, slag, sloe, slog, snag, snog, sola, sole, sone, song.

-5 letters: age, ago, ale, als, ane, eel, ego, els, eng, ens, eon, gae, gal, gan, gas, gee, gel, gen, goa, gos, lag, las, lea, lee, leg, log, nae, nag, nee, nog, nos, oes, ole, one, ons, ose, sae, sag, sal, sea, see, seg, sel, sen, sol, son.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: elongates, gasolenes, sloganeer.

 

+2 letters: gantelopes, goldenseal, longleaves, organelles, sloganeers.

 

+3 letters: camerlengos, collagenase, delegations, genealogies, genealogist, goaltenders, goldenseals, halogenates, legionaries, outgenerals, relegations, sloganeered.

 

+4 letters: acknowledges, angelologies, balneologies, cladogeneses, cladogenesis, collagenases, congealments, diagnoseable, genealogists, gladsomeness, legionnaires, lemongrasses, loganberries, mineralogies, nematologies, nondelegates, oceanologies, regionalizes, sloganeering, splenomegaly.

 

+5 letters: chalcogenides, clearinghouse, collieshangie, conglomerates, degringolades, deregulations, doppelgangers, galvanometers, generalissimo, gynaecologies, housecleaning, logicalnesses, melanogeneses, melanogenesis, neonatologies, planetologies, reregulations, selenological, superregional.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Gasolene


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 61 73 6F 6C 65 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    ...    ---    .-..    .    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100001 01110011 01101111 01101100 01100101 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#115 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0073 006F 006C 0065 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4167858178718071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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