gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: găs
ipa: /ɡæs/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /ˈɡɛəs/
enpr: găz
ipa: /ɡæz/
rhymes: -æs
rhymes: -æz
Forms: form: gases
form: gasses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch gas, coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae. Derived from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps also inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”). Doublet of chaos. First attested in 1648.
Senses: examples: text: A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
text: Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
ref: 2013 July–August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2013:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: vapor
vapour
glosses: Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
examples: text: Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: vapor
vapour
glosses: Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas.
examples: text: The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches.
topics: chemistry
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
synonyms: vapor
vapour
glosses: Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
Poison gas.
examples: text: The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical element or compound in such a state.
examples: text: She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
glosses: A hob on a gas cooker.
examples: text: My tummy hurts so bad – I have gas.
text: But anyone with that many large brown birds aroost in his cranium and that much gas in his bottom was clearly not a well person.
ref: 2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 72:
synonyms: wind
glosses: Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
topics: business
glosses: The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
examples: text: Two more girls came in, one in bright pink stretch pants and the other in purple. “Man this place is a gas,” said pink.
ref: 1963 May, Gloria Steinem, “A Bunny's Tale”, in Show Magazine, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2017:
text: No it really doesn't matter at all / Life's a gas / I hope it's going to last
ref: 1971, Marc Bolan, “Life's a Gas”, in Electric Warrior, performed by T. Rex:
text: Money, it's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
ref: 1973 March 1, “Money” (track 6), in The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd:
text: Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out had a heart of glass
ref: 1978, “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:
text: Be a man, Be a man / Belsen was a gas / Be a man, kill someone
ref: 1979, “Belsen Was a Gas”, in The Great Rock ‛n’ Roll Swindle, performed by Sex Pistols:
text: One two! I was born in a cross-fire hurricane. And I howled at the maw in the drivin' rain. But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas. But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's a gas, gas, gas.
ref: 2011 October 11, “Jumping Jack Flash (Live 1973)” (track 14), in Brussels Affair (Live 1973), performed by The Rolling Stones:
glosses: A humorous or entertaining event, person, or thing.
examples: text: Bang, little boy, stop with the gas / Little T, man he chats up his ass
ref: 2017 July 1, “About That”, performed by Soph Aspin and Millie B:
glosses: Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
examples: text: The closer threw him nothing but gas.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fastball.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Arterial or venous blood gas.
Derived terms: word: air gas
word: antigas
word: bag gas
word: base gas
word: blast furnace gas
word: Blau gas
word: bog gas
word: bottled gas
word: breathing gas
word: Calor gas
word: camping gas
word: carbonic acid gas
word: carrier gas
word: CN gas
word: coal gas
alt: CSG
word: coal seam gas
word: coke oven gas
word: combined gas law
word: cooking on gas
word: cooking with gas
word: CS gas
word: degas
word: drip gas
word: exhaust gas
word: Fermi gas
word: filling gas
word: flue gas
word: fossil gas
word: freedom gas
word: galaxy gas
word: gasalier
word: gas and air
word: gas and gaiters
word: gasbag
word: gas balloon
word: gas bar
word: gas bladder
word: gas boat
word: gas bottle
word: gas-bracket
word: gas bracket
word: gas burner
word: gas can
word: gas cap
word: gas centrifuge
word: gas chamber
word: gas check
word: gas chromatograph
word: gas chromatography
word: gas clathrate
word: gas coal
word: gas constant
word: gas cylinder
word: gas dwarf
word: gas dynamics
word: gas engine
word: gaseous
word: gasface
word: gas field
word: gas fire
word: gas-fired
word: gas-firing
word: gas fitter
word: gasfitting
word: gas flaring
word: gas gauge
word: gas generator
word: gas giant
word: Gashead
word: gasholder
word: gashouse
word: gas-house egg
word: gas hydrate
word: gasiferous
word: gasification
word: gasiform
word: gasify
word: gas jar
word: gas jet
word: gas-jet
word: gas jockey
word: gaslamp
word: gas lamp
word: gas law
word: gasless
word: gas lighter
word: gaslighter
word: gas-lighter
word: gaslight
word: gas light
word: gas-light
word: gas lighting
word: gas-lighting
word: gaslike
word: gas line
word: gas-liquid chromatography
word: gaslit
word: gas-lit
word: gas main
word: gasman
word: gas mantle
word: gas mark
word: gas mask
word: gas-masked
word: gas mechanics
word: gas meter
word: gas meter bandit
word: gasogen
word: gasogenous
word: gasometer
word: gasometre
word: gasometric
word: gasometry
word: gas on a stick
word: gasoscope
word: gasotransmitter
word: gas passer
word: gas pipe
word: gaspipe
word: gas pipeline
word: gas plant
word: gas poker
word: gas-powered
word: gasproof
word: gassy
word: gas syringe
word: gas tar
word: gastight
word: gas tracer
word: gas turbine
word: gas van
word: gas washer
word: gas water
word: gasworker
word: gasworks
word: gas works
word: greenhouse gas
word: happy gas
word: have a gas
word: hydrogen gas
word: hydrogen gas electrode
word: ideal gas
word: ideal gas law
word: illuminating gas
word: inert gas
word: inert gas narcosis
word: Knudsen gas
word: laughing gas
word: lifting gas
word: liquefied natural gas
alt: LPG
word: liquefied petroleum gas
word: liquid gas
word: liquid natural gas
word: liquified natural gas
word: marsh gas
word: Mond gas
word: multigas
word: mustard gas
word: natural gas
word: natural gas liquid
word: nerve gas
word: Nevada gas
word: noble gas
word: nongas
word: nonideal gas
word: non-ideal gas
word: OC gas
word: off-gas
word: oil gas
word: olefiant gas
word: outgas
word: oxy-gas torch
word: oxygen gas
word: packaging gas
word: pass gas
word: pepper gas
word: pepper-gas
word: Pintsch gas
word: poison gas
word: power to gas
word: producer gas
word: purple gas
word: rare gas
word: regas
word: rotten egg gas
word: rotten-egg gas
word: second gas effect
word: sewer gas
word: shale gas
word: sneeze gas
word: sour gas
word: super greenhouse gas
word: swamp gas
word: synthesis gas
word: syngas
word: take gas
word: tear gas
word: tear-gas
word: town gas
word: towns gas
word: ullage gas
word: van der Waals gas
word: water gas
word: wet gas
word: white gas
word: wood gas
Related terms: fluid
liquid
solid