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 →

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 →
• We stopped at the petrol station. tree →
• Petrol is made from oil. tree →
• Petrol catches fire very easily, so never play with it. tree →
• Electric cars do not need petrol. tree →
• The price of petrol went up. tree →
• The lawnmower runs on petrol. tree →

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.
• "Servo" is Australian for a petrol station.
• A camper in Australia poured petrol on a slow campfire; the flames burst up into his face and he was badly burned.
• Petrol and other fuel on a fire make it flare up in a flash and cause terrible burns.
• A crowd is like petrol: neither boy wanted to back down with thirty faces watching.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «petrol» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.