English
gas
see also: Gas, GAs, GAS
Pronunciation
  • (RP, America) enPR: găs, IPA: /ɡæs/
  • (New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore) IPA: /ˈɡɛəs/
  • enPR: găz, IPA: /ɡæz/
Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch gas, coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae.

Noun

gas

  1. (uncountable, physical chemistry) 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 lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
    Synonyms: vapor, vapour
    1. (uncountable) 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.
      Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.
    2. (uncountable, military) Poison gas.
      The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches.
  2. (countable, physical chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
    The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.
  3. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
    She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
  4. (uncountable) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
    Synonyms: wind
    My tummy hurts so bad – I have gas.
  5. (business, often, attributive) The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
  6. (slang, dated) A humorous or entertaining event, person or thing.
  7. (slang) Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
  8. (baseball) A fastball.
    The closer threw him nothing but gas.
  9. (medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.
Translations Translations Translations Translations Translations Translations Translations Verb

gas (gases, present participle gassing; simple past and past participle gassed)

  1. (transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.
    The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
    He never fully recovered after he was gassed on the Western Front.
  2. (transitive) To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.
  4. (transitive, slang) To impose upon by talking boastfully.
  5. (intransitive) To emit gas.
    The battery cell was gassing.
  6. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
    to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder
  7. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
    to gas thread
Translations Noun

gas

  1. (uncountable, North America, New Zealand) Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
    Synonyms: gasoline, petrol, Thesaurus:petroleum
  2. (uncountable, by extension) Ellipsis of gas pedal accelerator.
  3. (uncountable, cryptocurrencies) An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
    Coordinate term: Ether
    gas fee
  4. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
Translations Verb

gas (gases, present participle gassing; simple past and past participle gassed)

  1. (US) To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it.
    Synonyms: hit the gas, step on the gas
    The cops are coming. Gas it!
  2. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
    Synonyms: refuel
Translations
  • German: Gas geben
  • Russian: жать на газ
  • Spanish: acelerar
Translations Etymology 3

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

Adjective

gas (comparative gasser, superlative gassest)

  1. (slang) Comical, zany; fun, amusing.
    Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
    It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.
Gas
Proper noun
  1. A commune in Eure-et-Loir, France.
  2. A city in Kansas.
Noun
  1. plural form of Ga
GAs
Noun
  1. plural form of GA
GAS
Noun

gas

  1. Acronym of group A Streptococcus


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