gas

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See also Gas, gás, gås, gãs, gæs, and gaas

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[edit] English

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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

[edit] Noun

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) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
    Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.
  4. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
    She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
  5. (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.
  6. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
    He is such a gas!
  7. (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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Terms derived from gas
[edit] Translations
state of matter
gas in digestion
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  • Serbo-Croatian: gas m.
  • French: gaz m.
  • Indonesian: gas
  • Romanian: gaz n.
  • Spanish: gas m.
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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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gas (uncountable)

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

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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

[edit] Etymology 3

Confer slang term "a gas", above.

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gas (not comparable)

  1. (Ireland, 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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[edit] Etymology

Coined by chemist Van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”) or from Ancient Greek χάος (khaos, “chasm, void”).

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gas n. (plural gassen, ??? please provide the diminutive!)

  1. gas
  2. (automotive) liquefied petroleum gas

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gas

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gassen.
  2. imperative of gassen.

[edit] Galician

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gas m. (plural gases)

  1. gas

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[edit] Icelandic

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Dutch gas.

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gas n. (genitive singular gass, plural gös)

  1. gas (state of matter)
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declension of gas
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gas gasið gös gösin
accusative gas gasið gös gösin
dative gasi gasinu gösum gösunum
genitive gass gassins gasa gasanna
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From French gaze

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gas n. (genitive singular gass, uncountable)

  1. gauze
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declension of gas
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gas gasið - -
accusative gas gasið - -
dative gasi gasinu - -
genitive gass gassins - -
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[edit] Indonesian

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gas

  1. gas

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gas

  1. gas

[edit] Irish

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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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[edit] Latin

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gas (genitive gasis); n, third declension

  1. (physics) gas (state of matter)

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Number Singular Plural
nominative gas gasēs
genitive gasis gasum
dative gasī gasibus
accusative gasem gasēs
ablative gase gasibus
vocative gas gasēs

[edit] Rohingya

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From Bengali.

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gas

  1. tree

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

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  • IPA: /ɡâːs/

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gȃs m. (Cyrillic spelling га̑с)

  1. (chiefly Bosnia, Serbia or colloquial) gas (state of matter)
  2. gas (as fuel for combustion engines
  3. (figuratively) acceleration
    • dȁti gȃs - “give gas”: accelerate
  4. gas pedal, accelerator

[edit] Declension

    declension of gas
singular plural
nominative gȃs gásovi
genitive gasa gásōvā
dative gasu gasovima
accusative gȃs gasove
vocative gase gasovi
locative gásu gasovima
instrumental gasom gasovima

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  • (gaseous state of matter): plȋn (Croatian)

[edit] Spanish

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[edit] Etymology

From Dutch gas, coined by Belgian chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by Middle Dutch gheest (Modern Dutch geest) "breath, vapour, spirit", or from Ancient Greek χάος (khaos) "chasm, void".

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  • IPA: /ɡa̠s/

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gas m. (plural gases)

  1. gas

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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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Declension of gas
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gas gasen gaser gaserna
genitive gas gasens gasers gasernas

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gas n.

  1. gas
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