Definitions for GAS

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GAS gas

Spelling: [gas]

IPA: /gæs/

Gas is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in GAS (ags).

Definitions for GAS

noun

1. Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
2. any such fluid or mixture of fluids.
3. any such fluid used as an anesthetic, as nitrous oxide:
4. any such combustible fluid used as fuel:
5. Automotive. gasoline. Also called gas pedal. the foot-operated accelerator of an automotive vehicle:
6. flatus.
7. Coal Mining. an explosive mixture of firedamp with air.
8. an aeriform fluid or a mistlike assemblage of fine particles suspended in air, used in warfare to asphyxiate, poison, or stupefy an enemy.
9. Slang. empty talk. a person or thing that is very entertaining, pleasing, or successful: a person or thing that affects one strongly.
10. a Kwa language of Ghana, spoken in Accra and vicinity.

Idioms

1. step on the gas, Informal. to increase the speed of one's movement or activity; hurry:

Verb phrases

1. gas up, to fill the gasoline tank of an automobile, truck, or other vehicle.

verb (used with object)

1. to supply with gas.
2. to overcome, poison, or asphyxiate with gas or fumes.
3. to singe (yarns or fabrics) with a gas flame to remove superfluous fibers.
4. to treat or impregnate with gas.
5. Slang. to talk nonsense or falsehood to. to amuse or affect strongly:

verb (used without object)

1. to give off gas, as a storage battery being charged.
2. Slang. to indulge in idle, empty talk. to become drunk (often followed by up).

Origin of GAS

1650-60; coined by J. B. van Helmont (1577-1644), Flemish chemist; suggested by Greek cháos atmosphere

Examples for GAS

gas is indispensable in the operation of dirigible balloons, and gas is expensive.

Unconfirmed reports in the French media claimed that the brothers were spotted at a gas station in northern France on Thursday.

Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.

Under the gas chandelier, he straightened and threw out his arms.

Of acid it would take 60 times the weight of the gas, or nearly 76 tons.

It was from a former Railroad Commission employee who had gone to work for an oil and gas developer.

We have no heating; there is no gas and it is very cold inside the prison.

The thought of the gas office and its deadly round sickened him.

Security officials told Agence France-Presse that the gas station manager said he had recognized the two men.

Sidney had lighted the gas and was throwing on her dressing-gown.