gas
The English word “gas” has 24 meanings listed here.
- 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.
- Poison gas.
- A hob on a gas cooker.
- Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
- The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
- A humorous or entertaining event, person, or thing.
- Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
- A fastball.
- Arterial or venous blood gas.
- To attack or kill with poison gas.
- To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
- To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.
- To impose upon by talking boastfully.
- To emit gas.
- To impregnate with gas.
- To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
- Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
- Ellipsis of gas pedal; accelerator, throttle.
- An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
- Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it.
- To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
- Of high quality.
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