Meaning of gas | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A commune in Eure-et-Loir, France.
2. Acronym of group A Streptococcus.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
3. Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
   Canada, New-Zealand, Philippines, US, uncountable
4. gas (matter between liquid and plasma)
5. 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.
   physical, uncountable
6. A city in Kansas.
7. Acronym of general academic strand, a strand under the academic track in senior high school.
   Philippines, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
8. Ellipsis of gas pedal; accelerator, throttle.
   abbreviation, alt-of, broadly, ellipsis, uncountable
9. gas (an element or compound in such a state)
10. 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.
    physical, uncountable
11. Poison gas.
    physical, uncountable
12. An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
    uncountable
13. gas (flammable gas used for combustion)
14. A chemical element or compound in such a state.
    countable, physical
15. Marijuana, typically of high quality.
    slang, uncountable
16. gas (waste gases trapped in one's belly)
17. A hob on a gas cooker.
    countable
18. Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
    uncountable
19. The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
    attributive, countable, often, uncountable
20. A humorous or entertaining event, person, or thing.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
21. Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
    countable, slang, uncountable
22. A fastball.
    countable, uncountable
23. Arterial or venous blood gas.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

“The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches.”

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

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

“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.”

“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”

“Be a man, Be a man / Belsen was a gas / Be a man, kill someone”

“One two! I was born in a cross-fire hurricane. And I howled at the maw in the drivin' rain. But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas. But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's a gas, gas, gas.”

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

“The closer threw him nothing but gas.”

“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.”

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