petrol engine

Questions about petrol engine

What does petrol engine mean?

petrol engine means "an internal-combustion engine that burns gasoline; most automobiles are driven by gasoline engines".

What is another word for petrol engine?

Close synonyms include gasoline engine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is petrol engine a common word?

petrol engine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.