gas

• enPR: găs, IPA^(key): /ɡæs/

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• Rhymes: -æs

Borrowed from Dutch gas [1650s], coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont. Probably derived from Dutch chaos (“chaos”), from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”).

gas (countable and uncountable, plural gases or gasses)

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 in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly.
   • 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:

     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.

   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.

8. (medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.

• (state of matter): vapor / vapour
• (digestive process): wind, fart (when gas is released) (US, slang)

• fluid
• liquid
• solid

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

1. (transitive) To kill with poisonous gas.
2. (intransitive) To talk, chat.
   • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:

     […] (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. […]”

   • 1955, C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, Collins, 1998, Chapter 3,

     "Well don't keep on gassing about it," said Digory.

3. (intransitive) To emit gas.

   The battery cell was gassing.

4. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.

   to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder

5. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.

   to gas thread

Clipping of gasoline.

gas (uncountable)

1. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
2. (US) Gas pedal.

• (gasoline): gasoline (US), petrol (British)
• See also Thesaurus:petroleum.

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.

• (accelerate): step on the gas, hit the gas
• (fill fuel tank): refuel

• gas and dash
• gas up

Compare the slang usage of "a gas", above.

gas (comparative gasser, superlative gassest)

1. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing
   • 2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 113:

     The other models were gas fun, though they were all a bit hoity-toity.

   Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.

   It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.

• AGS, AGs, Ags., GSA, SAG, SGA, sag

From Dutch gast.

gas (plural gaste)

1. guest

From Dutch gas.

gas (plural gasse)

1. gas (substance in gaseous phase)

gas

1. gas

• gaseoso

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡas/

gas m (plural gasos)

1. gas

• biogàs
• gasós

• gasificar
• gasolina

• “gas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gas” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “gas” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ɣɑs/
• Rhymes: -ɑs

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

gas n (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)

1. gas
2. liquefied petroleum gas

   Synonyms: autogas, LPG

• Afrikaans: gas
• → English: gas
• → French: gaz
• → German: Gas
• → West Frisian: gas

From Middle Dutch gasse (“unpaved street”), from Middle High German gazze, from Old High German gazza, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

gas f (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)

1. unpaved street

See the etymology of the main entry.

gas

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

gas m (plural gases)

1. gas

• (gas): vapor

• gas nobre

• gasoso

• IPA^(key): /kaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

Borrowed from Dutch gas.

gas n (genitive singular gass, nominative plural gös)

1. gas (state of matter)

• táragas

Borrowed from French gaze.

gas n (genitive singular gass, no plural)

1. gauze

• gasbleia

• sag

gas (plural gas-gas, first-person possessive gasku, second-person possessive gasmu, third-person possessive gasnya)

1. gas

gas (plural gases)

1. gas

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [ɡɑsˠ]
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): [ɡasˠ]

gas m (genitive singular gais, nominative plural gais)

1. stalk, stem
2. sprig, shoot, frond
3. (figuratively) stripling; scion

• gasra

gas m

1. gas (state of matter, petroleum)
2. carbon dioxide (in fizzy drinks)
3. petrol
4. poison gas

• (petroleum): benzina

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡas/

gas n (genitive gasis); third declension

1. (physics) gas (state of matter)

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• gasum
• gasium

From Old French gars, nominative singular form of garçon.

gas m (plural gas)

1. (Jersey) chap

From French gaze

gas m (definite singular gasen, indefinite plural gaser, definite plural gasene)

1. gauze

• gass
• gås

• “gas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From French gaze

gas m (definite singular gasen, indefinite plural gasar, definite plural gasane)

1. gauze

• gass
• gås

• “gas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• gōs

From Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.

gās f

1. a goose

• Low German: Goos

From Old Norse gás, from Proto-Germanic *gans.

gās f

1. goose

• Swedish: gås

From Sanskrit.

gas

1. tree

• IPA^(key): /ɡâːs/

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

• (gaseous state of matter): plȋn (Croatian)

Borrowed 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 (kháos, “chasm, void”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡas/

gas m (plural gases)

1. gas (matter between liquid and plasma)
2. gas (an element or compound in such a state)
3. gas (flammable gas used for combustion)
4. (in the plural) gas (waste gases trapped in one's belly)

• gasolina

• Ags

• “gas” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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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

• IPA^(key): /ɡaːs/

gas

1. Soft mutation of cas.

Borrowed from Dutch gas.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔs/

gas n (plural gassen)

1. gas

• “gas”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

• IPA^(key): /ɡjäːs/

gas n

1. Romping, cry (of joy.)

• gasig
• gäsa
• gäsasam
• gasp
• gaasp

• IPA^(key): /ɡoːs/, /ɡɒːs/, /ɡɑːs/

gas f

1. Goose.
2. A round piece of butter with a depression created with the thumb.
3. = klening m

• gasveittj
• witgas
• havgas