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Gas Definition

gas

See also Gas, gás, gås, gãs, gæs, and gaas

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English

Wikipedia has an article on: Gas

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch gas, a word coined by chemist Van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by Dutch & Flemish gheest "breath, vapour, spirit" or from Ancient Greek χάος (khaos, “chasm, void”). More at ghost, ghastly

Noun

gas (countable and uncountable; plural gases)

  1. (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly.
    A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
  2. (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
    The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.
  3. (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
    Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.
  4. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
    She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
  5. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
    My tummy hurts so bad, I have gas.
  6. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
    He is such a gas!
  7. (baseball) A fastball.
    The closer threw him nothing but gas.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from gas
Translations
state of matter
  • Arabic: غاز (ar) (gház) m.
  • Armenian: գազ (gaz)
  • Belarusian: газ (be) (haz) m.
  • Bosnian: gas (bs) m.
  • Bulgarian: газ (bg) (gaz) m.
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 氣體 (cmn), 气体 (cmn) (qìtǐ), 氣 (cmn), 气 (cmn) (qì)
  • Croatian: plin (hr) m.
  • Czech: plyn (cs) m.
  • Danish: gas (da) n.
  • Dutch: gas (nl) n.
  • Faroese: gass (fo) n.
  • Finnish: kaasu (fi)
  • French: gaz (fr) m.
  • Georgian: გაზი (ka) (gazi)
  • German: Gas (de) n.
  • Greek: αέριο (el) (aério) n., ατμός (el) (atmós) m.
  • Hebrew: גז (he) (gáz) m.
  • Hindi: गैस (hi) (gais)
  • Hungarian: gáz (hu)
  • Icelandic: gas (is) n.
  • Interlingua: gas (ia)
gas in digestion
  • German: Blähung (de) f.
  • Greek: αέριο (el) (aério) n.
  • Hebrew: גזים (he)
  • Japanese: ガス (ja) (gasu)
  • Latvian: gāze (lv) f.
  • Romanian: gaze (ro) n. pl.
  • Russian: газы (ru) (gázy) m. pl.
  • Swedish: gaser (sv) c. pl.
  • Turkish: gaz (tr)
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  • Serbo-Croatian: gas m.
  • French: gaz m.
  • Indonesian: gas
  • Romanian: gaz n.
  • Spanish: gas m.
See also

Verb

gas (third-person singular simple present gases, present participle gassing, simple past and past participle gassed)

  1. To kill with poisonous gas.
  2. To talk, chat.
  3. To emit gas.
    The battery cell was gassing.

Etymology 2

Shortened from gasoline.

Noun

gas (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
Synonyms
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Translations
fuel

Verb

gas (third-person singular simple present gases or gasses, present participle gassing, simple past and past participle gassed)

  1. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
    The cops are coming. Gas it!
  2. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel

Etymology 3

Confer slang term "a gas", above.

Adjective

gas (not comparable)

  1. (Irish, colloquial) comical, zany.
    Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
    It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.
Usage notes

Anagrams

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on: Gas

Wikipedia nl

Etymology

Coined by chemist Van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”) or from Ancient Greek χάος (khaos, “chasm, void”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gas n. (plural gassen)

  1. gas
  2. (automotive) liquefied petroleum gas

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Derived terms

Verb

gas

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gassen.
  2. imperative of gassen.

Galician

Noun

gas m. (plural gases)

  1. gas

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch gas.

Noun

gas n. (genitive singular gass, plural gös)

  1. gas (state of matter)
Declension
declension of gas
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gas gasið gös gösin
accusative gas gasið gös gösin
dative gasi gasinu gösum gösunum
genitive gass gassins gasa gasanna
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From French gaze

Noun

gas n. (genitive singular gass, uncountable)

  1. gauze
Declension
declension of gas
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gas gasið - -
accusative gas gasið - -
dative gasi gasinu - -
genitive gass gassins - -
Derived terms

Anagrams

Indonesian

Noun

gas

  1. gas

Interlingua

Noun

gas

  1. gas

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

gas m.

  1. stalk

Declension

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gas gais
Vocative a ghais a ghasa
Genitive gais gas
Dative gas gais

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gas na gais
Genitive an ghais na ngas
Dative leis an ngas

don ghas

 leis na gais
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gas ghas ngas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Noun

gas m.

  1. gas (state of matter, petroleum)
  2. petrol
  3. poison gas

Synonyms

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Latin

Noun

Latin Wikipedia has an article on: Gas

Wikipedia la

gas (genitive gasis); n, third declension

  1. (physics) gas (state of matter)

Inflection

Number Singular Plural
nominative gas gasēs
genitive gasis gasum
dative gasī gasibus
accusative gasem gasēs
ablative gase gasibus
vocative gas gasēs

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali.

Noun

gas

  1. tree

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

Noun

gȃs m. (Cyrillic spelling га̑с)

  1. (chiefly Bosnia, Serbia or colloquial) gas (state of matter)
  2. gas (as fuel for combustion engines
  3. (figuratively) acceleration
    • dȁti gȃs - “give gas”: accelerate
  4. gas pedal, accelerator

Declension

declension of gas
singular plural
nominative gȃs gásovi
genitive gasa gásōvā
dative gasu gasovima
accusative gȃs gasove
vocative gase gasovi
locative gásu gasovima
instrumental gasom gasovima

Synonyms

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on: Gas

Wikipedia es

Etymology

From Dutch gas, coined by Belgian chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by Middle Dutch gheest (Modern Dutch geest) "breath, vapour, spirit", or from Ancient Greek χάος (khaos) "chasm, void".

Pronunciation

Noun

gas m. (plural gases)

  1. gas

Derived terms

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

gas c.

  1. gas; a state of matter
  2. gas; a compound or element in such a state
  3. gas; gaseous fuels
  4. (plural only: gaser) gas; waste gas

Declension

Declension of gas
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gas gasen gaser gaserna
genitive gas gasens gasers gasernas

Derived terms

West Frisian

Pronunciation

Noun

gas n.

  1. gas

 

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