Gasoline engine

Gas´o`line en´gine

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(Mach.) A kind of internal-combustion engine; - in British countries called usually petrol engine.

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gasoline engine - an internal-combustion engine that burns gasoline; most automobiles are driven by gasoline engines petrol engine auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine - a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" inlet manifold - manifold that carries vaporized fuel from the carburetor to the inlet valves of the cylinders internal-combustion engine, ICE - a heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine put-put - a small gasoline engine (as on motor boat)