gas

sostantivo

1. 1

   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.

   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.

2. 2

   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 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.

3. 3

   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. Poison gas.

   The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches.

4. 4

   A chemical element or compound in such a state.

   The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.

5. 5

   A hob on a gas cooker.

   She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.

6. 6

   Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.

   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.

7. 7

   The supply of natural gas, as a utility.

8. 8

   desuetoA humorous or entertaining event, person, or thing.

   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

9. 9

   gergoFrothy or boastful talk; chatter.

   Bang, little boy, stop with the gas / Little T, man he chats up his ass

10. 10

    A fastball.

    The closer threw him nothing but gas.

11. 11

    Arterial or venous blood gas.

verbo

1. 1

   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. 2

   To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.

3. 3

   gergoTo talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.

   […] (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.

4. 4

   gergoTo impose upon by talking boastfully.

   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".

5. 5

   To emit gas.

   The battery cell was gassing.

6. 6

   To impregnate with gas.

   to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder

7. 7

   To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.

   to gas thread

sostantivo

1. 1

   Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.

   Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.

2. 2

   An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.

   gas fee

   Gas is the fuel of Ethereum. Gas is not ether–it's a separate virtual currency with its own exchange rate against ether. Ethereum uses gas to control the amount of resources that transactions can use[…]

   The average “gas fee” – transaction cost – of an Ethereum transaction is between US$85 and US $156, according to crypto.com data.

3. 3

   gergoMarijuana, typically of high quality.

4. 4

   Variante di gas pedalEllipsis of gas pedal; accelerator, throttle.

verbo

1. 1

   To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it.

   The cops are coming. Gas it!

2. 2

   To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.

aggettivo

1. 1

   gergoOf high quality.

   This food is gas.

aggettivo

1. 1

   gergoComical, zany; fun, amusing.

   Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.

   It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.

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

   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".

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gases, gasses

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gasser

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gassed

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gassed

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gases, gasses