kerosene
See also: kérosène
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós, “wax”) + -ene; a name trademarked in 1854.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈkɛɹəsiːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editkerosene (countable and uncountable, plural kerosenes)
- A thin, often colorless or blue or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel, heavier than gasoline/petrol or naptha but lighter than diesel, used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas.
- Synonyms: paraffin (UK); kero (clipping), lamp oil (often synonymous), coal oil (especially Appalachia)
- Hyponyms: (usually hyponymous) jet fuel, avtur
- The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm.
- 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. […] It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Assamese: কেৰাচিন (kerasin)
- → Bengali: কেরোসিন (kerōśin)
- → Farefare: karẽnzĩn
- → Moore: karenzĩ
- → Russian: кероси́н (kerosín)
Translations
editthin, colorless fuel
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Portuguese
editNoun
editkerosene m (plural kerosenes)
Spanish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editkerosene m (plural kerosenes)
Further reading
edit- “kerosene”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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