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Definition of 'gas'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) gas
a fluid substance with the ability to expand indefinitely, as opposed to a solid or a liquid.

2.  gas
any such fluid or mixture of fluids, used as a fuel, anesthetic, asphyxiating agent, etc.

3.  gas
gasoline.

4.  gas
the foot-operated accelerator of an automotive vehicle.

5.  gas
an explosive mixture of firedamp with air.

6.  gas
Slang.

7.  gas
empty talk.

8.  gas
a person or thing that is very entertaining or successful.

9. (v.t.) gas
to supply with gas.

10.  gas
to overcome, poison, or asphyxiate with gas or fumes.

11.  gas
to treat or impregnate with gas.

12.  gas
Slang.

13.  gas
to talk nonsense to.

14.  gas
to amuse or affect strongly.

15. (v.i.) gas
to give off gas, as a storage battery being charged.

16.  gas
Slang.

17.  gas
to indulge in idle, empty talk.

18.  gas
to become drunk (often fol. by up).

19.  gas
gas up, to fill the gasoline tank of an automobile or other vehicle.

Definition of 'gas'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) gas, gaseous state
the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container

2. (noun) gas
a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely

3. (noun) gasoline, gasolene, gas, petrol
a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines

4. (noun) flatulence, flatulency, gas
a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal

5. (noun) accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun
a pedal that controls the throttle valve
"he stepped on the gas"

6. (verb) natural gas, gas
a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes

7. (verb) gas
attack with gas; subject to gas fumes
"The despot gassed the rebellious tribes"

8. (verb) boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade
show off

Definition of 'gas'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) gas
a liquid substance used as fuel for vehicles; = gasoline
to fill the car with gas

2.  gas
matter that is not solid or liquid
a flammable gas

3.  gas
a gas used as fuel for some household equipment; = natural gas
a gas furnace

4.  gas
gas produced in your stomach
to pass gas

Definition of 'gas'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) gas
an aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state

2. (noun) gas
a complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced by the destructive distillation of gas coal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes

3. (noun) gas
laughing gas

4. (noun) gas
any irrespirable aeriform fluid

Definitions of 'gas'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. gas
[as in ‘gas chamber’]

1. interj. A term of disgust and hatred, implying that gas should be dispensed in generous quantities, thereby exterminating the source of irritation. “Some loser just reloaded the system for no reason! Gas!”

2. interj. A suggestion that someone or something ought to be flushed out of mercy. “The system's getting wedged every few minutes. Gas!”

3. vt. To flush (sense 1). “You should gas that old crufty software.”

4. [IBM] n. Dead space in nonsequentially organized files that was occupied by data that has since been deleted; the compression operation that removes it is called degassing (by analogy, perhaps, with the use of the same term in vacuum technology).

5. [IBM] n. Empty space on a disk that has been clandestinely allocated against future need.

Translation of 'gas'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a substance like air Oxygen is a gas.
Afrikaans: gas	Arabic: غاز	Bulgarian: газ
Brazilian: gás	Czech: plyn	German: das Gas
Danish: gas	Greek: αέριο	Spanish: gas
Estonian: gaas	Farsi: گاز	Finnish: kaasu
French: gaz	Hebrew: גַּז	Hindi: गैस
Croatian: plin	Hungarian: gáz	Indonesian: gas
Icelandic: lofttegund	Italian: gas	Japanese: 気体
Korean: 기체	Lithuanian: dujos	Latvian: gāze
Malay: gas	Dutch: gas	Norwegian: gass
Polish: gaz	Persian: گاز	Pashto: تړاس، ګاز، غاز
Portuguese: gás	Romanian: gaz	Russian: газ
Slovak: plyn	Slovenian: plin	Serbian: gas
Swedish: gas	Thai: ก๊าซ	Turkish: gaz
Taiwanese: 氣體	Ukrainian: газ	Urdu: گیس، ہوا کی طرح کا مادہ
Vietnamese: ga	Chinese: 气体
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