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Itasan Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

accelerator

0accelerator (of a car)02br
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00It's rather a long word. Are there any shorter terms?02br
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00Also what is the verb form? 'Step on the accelerator', 'step on the gas', 'release the gas'?02br
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00Thank you.0-
  

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02br 02br 00The verb form would be:02br 00-step on the gas: yes02br 00-release the gas: no02br 00-speed it up: yes02br 00-let's floor it: yes (means put the pedal all the way down to the floor)0-

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  • 02br 02br 00The verb form would be:02br 00-step on the gas: yes02br 00-release the gas: no02br 00-speed it up: yes02br 00-let's floor it: yes (means put the pedal all the way down to the floor)0-
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0Hi Itasan,02br
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00As you almost said yourself, a shorter and more common term would be the gas pedal.02br
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00The verb form would be:02br
00-step on the gas: yes02br
00-release the gas: no02br
00-speed it up: yes02br
00-let's floor it: yes (means put the pedal all the way down to the floor)0-
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0 Gas pedal is a North American term, not normally used in the UK. This is partly because the American word for petroleum motor fuel: "gasoline" (shortened to "gas"), is not used here, "petrol" being the usual term, although confusingly we do use phrases like "step on the gas". Another alternative word for the accelerator is "throttle" (from the fact that the valve controlling the fuel "throt
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0 I see. Thank you very much, everybody, for the valuable information as always. 0-
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0 step on it! 02br
00put your foot down02br
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00(to speed up)0-
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0Put the pedal to the metal!0-
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