gas
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂-der.
Ancient Greek χαῦνος (khaûnos)
Ancient Greek χάος (kháos)der.
Dutch gasbor.
English gas
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.
Inflected forms:
form: gases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gassed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gasser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gassest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: physical
uncountable
examples: A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: physical
uncountable
examples: Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: physical
uncountable
examples: The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches.
gloss: A chemical element or compound in such a state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
examples: The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.
gloss: A hob on a gas cooker.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
gloss: Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: My tummy hurts so bad – I have gas.
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.
gloss: The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
often
uncountable
gloss: A humorous or entertaining event, person, or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
examples: Two more girls came in, one in bright pink stretch pants and the other in purple. “Man this place is a gas,” said pink.
No it really doesn't matter at all / Life's a gas / I hope it's going to last
Money, it's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Be a man, Be a man / Belsen was a gas / Be a man, kill someone
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.
gloss: Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Bang, little boy, stop with the gas / Little T, man he chats up his ass
gloss: A fastball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The closer threw him nothing but gas.
gloss: Arterial or venous blood gas.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: To attack or kill with poison gas.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
He never fully recovered after he was gassed on the Western Front.
gloss: To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."
gloss: To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
"Well don't keep on gassing about it," said Digory.
gloss: To impose upon by talking boastfully.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I went shop and the boss man said "Don't pay me it's fine" and I said ...(whaaat): "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam" ( don't gas me), "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam".
gloss: To emit gas.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The battery cell was gassing.
gloss: To impregnate with gas.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder
gloss: To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to gas thread
gloss: Of high quality.
pos: adj
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: This food is gas.
Related words: fluid
liquid
solid
Derived words: air gas
antigas
bag gas
base gas
blast furnace gas
Blau gas
bog gas
bottled gas
breathing gas
Calor gas
camping gas
carbonic acid gas
carrier gas
CN gas
coal gas
coal seam gas
coke oven gas
combined gas law
cooking on gas
cooking with gas
CS gas
degas
drip gas
exhaust gas
Fermi gas
filling gas
flue gas
fossil gas
freedom gas
galaxy gas
gasalier
gas and air
gas and gaiters
gasbag
gas balloon
gas bar
gas bladder
gas boat
gas bottle
gas-bracket
gas bracket
gas burner
gas can
gas cap
gas car
gas centrifuge
gas chamber
gas check
gas chromatograph
gas chromatography
gas clathrate
gas coal
gas constant
gas cylinder
gas discharge
gas duster
gas dwarf
gas dynamics
gas engine
gaseous
gasface
gas field
gas fire
gas-fired
gas-firing
gas fitter
gasfitting
gas flaring
gas gauge
gas generator
gas giant
Gashead
gasholder
gashouse
gas-house egg
gas hydrate
gasiferous
gasification
gasiform
gasify
gas jar
gas jet
gas-jet
gas jockey
gaslamp
gas lamp
gas law
gasless
gas lighter
gaslighter
gas-lighter
gaslight
gas light
gas-light
gas lighting
gas-lighting
gaslike
gas line
gas-liquid chromatography
gaslit
gas-lit
gas main
gasman
gas mantle
gas mark
gas mask
gas-masked
gas mechanics
gas meter
gas meter bandit
gasogen
gasogenous
gasometer
gasometre
gasometric
gasometry
gas on a stick
gasoscope
gasotransmitter
gas passer
gas pipe
gaspipe
gas pipeline
gas plant
gas poker
gas-powered
gasproof
gassy
gas syringe
gas tar
gastight
gas tracer
gas turbine
gas van
gas washer
gas water
gasworker
gasworks
gas works
greenhouse gas
happy gas
have a gas
hydrogen gas
hydrogen gas electrode
ideal gas
ideal gas law
illuminating gas
inert gas
inert gas narcosis
Knudsen gas
laughing gas
laughy gas
lifting gas
liquefied natural gas
liquefied petroleum gas
liquid gas
liquid natural gas
liquified natural gas
marsh gas
Mond gas
multigas
mustard gas
natural gas
natural gas liquid
nerve gas
Nevada gas
noble gas
nongas
non-ideal gas
nonideal gas
OC gas
off-gas
oil gas
olefiant gas
outgas
oxy-gas torch
oxygen gas
packaging gas
pass gas
pepper gas
pepper-gas
Pintsch gas
poison gas
power to gas
producer gas
purple gas
rare gas
regas
rotten egg gas
rotten-egg gas
second gas effect
sewer gas
shale gas
sneeze gas
sour gas
super greenhouse gas
swamp gas
synthesis gas
syngas
take gas
tear gas
tear-gas
town gas
towns gas
ullage gas
van der Waals gas
water gas
wet gas
white gas
wood gas
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: gas
lang: Albanian
word: gaz
lang: Amharic
word: ጋዝ
roman: gaz
lang: Arabic
word: غَاز
roman: ḡāz
lang: Armenian
word: գազ
roman: gaz
lang: Assamese
word: গেছ
roman: ges
lang: Azerbaijani
word: غاز
roman: gāz
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qaz
lang: Basque
word: gas
lang: Belarusian
word: газ
roman: haz
lang: Bengali
word: গ্যাস
roman: gês
lang: Bulgarian
word: газ
roman: gaz
lang: Burmese
word: ဓာတ်ငွေ့
roman: dhatngwe.
lang: Catalan
word: gas
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 氣體 /气体
roman: hei³ tai²
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 氣體 /气体
roman: ké-tā̤
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 氣體 /气体
roman: hi-thí
lang: Chinese
word: 氣體 /气体
roman: khì-thé
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 氣體 /气体
roman: qìtǐ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 氣 /气
roman: qì
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 氣體 /气体
roman: ⁵chi-thi
lang: Czech
word: plyn
lang: Danish
word: gas
lang: Dutch
word: gas
lang: Erzya
word: лекс
roman: leks
lang: Esperanto
word: gaso
lang: Estonian
word: gaas
lang: Faroese
word: gass
lang: Finnish
word: kaasu
lang: French
word: gaz
lang: West-Frisian
word: gas
lang: Galician
word: gas
lang: Georgian
word: გაზი
roman: gazi
lang: Georgian
word: აირი
roman: airi
lang: German
word: Gas
lang: Greek
word: γκάζι
roman: gkázi
lang: Greek
word: αέριο
roman: aério
lang: Greek
word: ατμός
roman: atmós
lang: Greenlandic
word: gassi
lang: Gujarati
word: વાયુ
roman: vāyu
lang: Hebrew
word: גַּז
roman: gaz
lang: Hindi
word: गैस
roman: gais
lang: Hungarian
word: gáz
lang: Icelandic
word: gas
lang: Ido
word: gaso
lang: Indonesian
word: gas
lang: Interlingua
word: gas
lang: Irish
word: gás
lang: Italian
word: gas
lang: Japanese
word: 気体
roman: kitai
lang: Japanese
word: ガス
roman: gasu
lang: Kannada
word: ಅನಿಲ
roman: anila
lang: Kazakh
word: газ
roman: gaz
lang: Khakas
word: кии
roman: kii
lang: Khmer
word: ឧស្ម័ន
roman: ʼusman
lang: Khmer
word: ហ្គាស
roman: gaah
lang: Korean
word: 가스
roman: gaseu
lang: Korean
word: 기체
roman: giche
lang: Central Kurdish
word: گاز
roman: gaz
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: gaz
lang: Kyrgyz
word: газ
roman: gaz
lang: Lao
word: ອາຍໄຕ້
roman: ʼāi tai
lang: Lao
word: ອາຍ
roman: ʼāi
lang: Lao
word: ແກັສ
roman: kæs
lang: Latin
word: gas
lang: Latin
word: gasum
lang: Latin
word: gasium
lang: Latvian
word: gāze
lang: Lithuanian
word: dujos
lang: Macedonian
word: гас
roman: gas
lang: Malay
word: gas
lang: Maltese
word: gass
lang: Māori
word: haurehu
lang: Māori
word: kāhi
lang: Marathi
word: वायू
roman: vāyū
lang: Mongolian
word: хий
roman: xii
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠬᠡᠢ
roman: kei
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gass
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: gass
lang: Odia
word: ଗ୍ୟାସ୍
roman: gyās
lang: Pashto
word: ګاز
roman: gāz
lang: Pashto
word: غاز
roman: ǧāz
lang: Iranian Persian
word: گاز
roman: gâz
lang: Polish
word: gaz
lang: Portuguese
word: gás
lang: Punjabi
word: ਗੈਸ
roman: gais
lang: Punjabi
word: ਫੂ
roman: phū
lang: Romagnol
word: gas
lang: Romanian
word: gaz
lang: Romanian
word: gaze
lang: Russian
word: газ
roman: gaz
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: gas
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пли̑н
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: га̑с
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: plȋn
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: gȃs
lang: Sicilian
word: gas
lang: Silesian
word: goz
lang: Sinhalese
word: වායු
roman: wāyu
lang: Slovak
word: plyn
lang: Slovene
word: plin
lang: Spanish
word: gas
lang: Swahili
word: gesi
lang: Swedish
word: gas
lang: Tagalog
word: buhag
lang: Tajik
word: газ
roman: gaz
lang: Tamil
word: வளிமம்
roman: vaḷimam
lang: Tamil
word: வாயு
roman: vāyu
lang: Tatar
word: газ
roman: ğaz
lang: Telugu
word: వాయువు
roman: vāyuvu
lang: Thai
word: ก๊าซ
roman: gáat
lang: Thai
word: แก๊ส
roman: gɛ́ɛt
lang: Tibetan
word: རླངས་རླུང
roman: rlangs rlung
lang: Turkish
word: gaz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: غاز
roman: gaz
lang: Turkmen
word: gaz
lang: Tuvan
word: хей
roman: xey
lang: Ukrainian
word: газ
roman: haz
lang: Urdu
word: گَیس
roman: gais
lang: Urdu
word: فارغہ
lang: Uyghur
word: گاز
roman: gaz
lang: Uzbek
word: gaz
lang: Vietnamese
word: khí tê
lang: Vietnamese
word: khí
lang: Vietnamese
word: chất khí
lang: Volapük
word: vap
lang: Welsh
word: nwy
lang: Yakut
word: гаас
roman: gaas
lang: Yiddish
word: גאַז
roman: gaz
lang: Yoruba
word: gáàsì
lang: Belarusian
word: га́зы
roman: házy
lang: Bulgarian
word: га́зове
roman: gázove
lang: Dutch
word: winden
lang: Finnish
word: ilmavaiva
lang: Finnish
word: ilmavaivat
lang: French
word: gaz
lang: Georgian
word: გაზები
roman: gazebi
lang: German
word: Blähung
lang: Greek
word: αέριο
roman: aério
lang: Hawaiian
word: hūea
lang: Hebrew
word: גזים
roman: gázim
lang: Hungarian
word: szél
lang: Hungarian
word: bélgáz
lang: Italian
word: gas
lang: Japanese
word: ガス
roman: gasu
lang: Korean
word: 가스
roman: gaseu
lang: Latvian
word: gāze
lang: Latvian
word: gāzes
lang: Macedonian
word: гасови
roman: gasovi
lang: Polish
word: gazy
lang: Portuguese
word: gases
lang: Romanian
word: gaze
lang: Russian
word: га́зы
roman: gázy
lang: Sicilian
word: aria
lang: Slovak
word: plyny
lang: Swedish
word: gaser
lang: Turkish
word: gaz
lang: Ukrainian
word: га́зи
roman: házy