gas — ozdic

Collocations

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1

(noun.) substance like air

ADJ

noxious, poisonous, toxic | explosive, inflammable, radioactive | inert

exhaust, greenhouse

The car's exhaust gas made it hard to breathe on the busy highway.

nerve, tear

The protester collapsed after inhaling nerve gas during the chemical attack.

VERB + GAS

give off, produce

The factory produces toxic gas that pollutes the air in our neighborhood.

GAS + VERB

build up

Dangerous fumes started to build up inside the old garage after we closed the door.

escape, leak

If you smell something strange, natural gas might be leaking from your stove.

2

(noun.) for heating/cooking

ADJ

butane, coal, natural, propane | bottled, Calor

VERB + GAS

cook with

Many families in our neighborhood cook with gas because it heats food faster than electric stoves.

light, turn on

She turned on the gas to cook dinner for her family.

GAS + NOUN

appliance, boiler, central heating, cooker, fire, lamp, oven | bottle, cylinder, pipeline | board | industry

field

Workers discovered vast reserves of oil and gas fields beneath the desert last year.

supply

works

My grandfather used to work at the gas works before it shut down in the 1980s.

leak

The plumber found a small gas leak under the kitchen sink yesterday morning.

PHRASES

gas mark 2, 3, etc.

When baking a cake, I preheated the oven to gas mark 5 for about ten minutes.

Definitions

noun

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) bec

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

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) bec

Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.

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) bec

The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches.

4

A chemical element or compound in such a state.

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

5

A hob on a gas cooker.

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

verb

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

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

"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."

3

To 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

To 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

To emit gas.

The battery cell was gassing.

noun

1

Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.

2

Ellipsis of gas pedal; accelerator, throttle.

3

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[…]

4

Marijuana, typically of high quality.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a pedal that controls the throttle valve

noun — a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal

flatulence
flatulency

noun — a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and hep

gasoline
gasolene
petrol

verb — show off

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

gas and air

An equal mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen, used as a mild analgesic and anaesthetic, particularly during childbirth, for dental procedures, and in emergency medicine.

Meronyms: nitrous oxide, N₂O; oxygen (strict sense), oxygen (loose sense), dioxygen, O₂

cooking with gas

Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial.

She said, 'What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know.' The blind man said, 'We're drawing a cathedral. Me and him are working on it. Press hard,' he said to me. 'That's right. Th

hit the gas

To go; go faster.

They're gaining on you; you'd better hit the gas, now!

out of gas

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see out of, gas.: lacking fuel.

The lawnmower was out of gas so he decided to let the grass grow.

have a gas

Have a good time.

Example Bank

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A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.

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02

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 flui

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03

Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.

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04

The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.

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05

He never fully recovered after he was gassed on the Western Front.

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06

"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us r

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, gas is marked as slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.