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# petrol

«petrol» in Mova's school dictionary: **a liquid fuel made from oil that is put into cars and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (petrol)

### meaning for a pupil

Petrol is a liquid fuel made from oil that is put into cars and other engines to make them go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petrol/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life: filling up at the petrol station. In science and geography: petrol comes from crude oil, it burns and gives off gases that pollute the air; electric cars use no petrol. Safety: petrol catches fire easily and its fumes are harmful.

### examples

- Dad put petrol in the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petrol/#x1)
- We stopped at the petrol station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petrol/#x2)
- Petrol is made from oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petrol/#x3)
- Petrol catches fire very easily, so never play with it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petrol/#x4)
- Electric cars do not need petrol. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petrol/#x5)
- The price of petrol went up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petrol/#x6)
- The lawnmower runs on petrol. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petrol/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: some petrol, not "a petrol". UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland say "petrol"; USA and Canada say "gas" or "gasoline". "Petrol station" = "gas station". Not the same as diesel.

### In the corpora

- [Haiku are often about nature, but they can catch any small everyday moment, even at a petrol station.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/7/)
- ["Servo" is Australian for a petrol station.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/8/)
- [A camper in Australia poured petrol on a slow campfire; the flames burst up into his face and he was badly burned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/21/)
- [Petrol and other fuel on a fire make it flare up in a flash and cause terrible burns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/23/)
- [A crowd is like petrol: neither boy wanted to back down with thirty faces watching.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/393-bystanders/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «petrol» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petrol/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.