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[edit] Etymology 1

From Dutch gas, a word coined by chemist Van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by Dutch & Flemish gheest "breath, vapour, spirit" or from Ancient Greek χάος (khaos), chasm, void). More at ghost, ghastly

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Singular
gas

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural gases

gas (countable and uncountable; plural gases)

  1. (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly.
    A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder
  2. (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
    The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases
  3. (uncountable) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating or electricity generation.
    Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.
  4. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process. My tummy hurts so bad, I have gas.
  5. (slang) A humorous event or person.
    He is such a gas!
  6. (baseball) A fastball.
    The closer threw him nothing but gas.

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  • (state of matter): vapor / vapour
  • (digestive process): wind, fart (when gas is released) (US, slang)

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to gas

Third person singular
gases

Simple past
gassed

Past participle
gassed

Present participle
gassing

to gas (third-person singular simple present gases, present participle gassing, simple past and past participle gassed)

  1. To kill with poisonous gas.
  2. To talk, chat.
  3. To emit gas.
    The battery cell was gassing.

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Shortened from gasoline.

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Singular
gas

Plural
uncountable

gas (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.

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Infinitive
to gas

Third person singular
gases or gasses

Simple past
gassed

Past participle
[[gassed]]

Present participle
gassing

to gas (third-person singular simple present gases or gasses, present participle gassing, simple past and past participle gassed)

  1. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
    The cops are coming. Gas it!
  2. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel

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Confer slang term "a gas", above.

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gas (comparative more gas, superlative most gas)

Positive
gas

Comparative
more gas

Superlative
most gas

  1. (Irish, colloquial) comical, zany.
    Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
    It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.

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  • This is common in speech, but rarely used in writing.

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[edit] Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

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gas n. (plural gassen)

  1. gas

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gas m. (plural gases)

  1. gas

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gas n.

  1. gas (state of matter)

[edit] Indonesian

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gas

  1. gas

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gas

  1. gas

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  • IPA: [ɡasˠ]

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gas m.

  1. stalk

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First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gas gais
Vocative a ghais a ghasa
Genitive gais gas
Dative gas gais

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gas na gais
Genitive an ghais na ngas
Dative leis an ngas

don ghas

leis na gais
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gas ghas ngas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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gas m.

  1. gas (state of matter, petroleum)
  2. petrol
  3. poison gas

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From Bengali.

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gas

  1. tree

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gas m. (plural gases)

Singular
gas m.

Plural
gases m.

  1. gas

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Inflection for gas Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative gas gasen gaser gaserna
Genitive gas gasens gasers gasernas

gas c.

  1. gas; a state of matter
  2. gas; a compound or element in such a state
  3. gas; gaseous fuels
  4. (plural only: gaser) gas; waste gas

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gas n.

  1. gas
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