Meaning

4 senses
  1. A pipe or hose connecting a gas appliance to the main supply of natural gas for the apartment, office or building.

    The gas line in each apartment should have a ball valve for emergency shutoffs.

  2. A queue out of a service station where people in automobiles wait their turn to make a purchase of gasoline.

    The gas lines sometimes wrapped around the block in 1973.

    a queue of vehicles waiting to purchase gasoline

  3. A pipeline used to transport natural gas.

    Call before you dig — there is a gas line buried in the area.

    a pipeline used to transport natural gas

  4. The tubing that carries gasoline in a vehicle from the gas tank to the engine.

    On older models, the gas line feeds the carburetor and has a replaceable fuel filter.

    a pipe that carries gasoline from a tank to a gasoline engine

Forms

plural: gas lines

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a pipe that carries gasoline from a tank to a gasoline engine:fuel linepetrol line

Word family

1 related words
Relatedgasworks

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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