gasify

English

Alternative forms

• gassify

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂-der.

Ancient Greek χαῦνος (khaûnos)

Ancient Greek χάος (kháos)der.

Dutch gasbor.

English gas

Latin -i-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-fakāō

Latin -ficō

Latin -ificāreder.

Old French -ifierbor.

Middle English -ifien

English -ify

English gasify

From gas + -ify.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæsɪfaɪ/

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Verb

gasify (third-person singular simple present gasifies, present participle gasifying, simple past and past participle gasified)

1. (ambitransitive) To convert into a gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes; to become a gas or aeriform fluid.
   • 1806, The Literary Magazine, and American Register‎^[1], volume 5, page 65:

     […] when we consider the disappearance of the dense smoke in Mr. Giddy’s experiment, there seems to be great reason to think that the charcoal was oxygenated and gassified.

   • 1978, Rob Hunter, chapter 4, in The Spur Backpacking and Camping Cook Book‎^[2], page 28:

     Butane will gasify at low pressure, and can be contained in light canisters.

   • 1996, Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars‎^[3], page 245:

     Fleets of automated diggers and carts would be manufactured to haul the processed material in to centralized factories, where the material would be gassified and released from tall mobile stacks.

Derived terms

• degasify
• gasifiable
• gasifier
• regasify

Related terms

• gas

Translations

to convert into gas

• Bulgarian: газифицирам (gazificiram), превръщам в газ (prevrǎštam v gaz)
• Catalan: gasificar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣化 / 气化 (zh) (qìhuà)

• Finnish: kaasuttaa (fi), kaasuunnuttaa
• French: gazéifier (fr)
• German: vergasen (de)
• Greek: αεριοποιώ (el) (aeriopoió)
• Italian: gassificare (it)
• Japanese: 気化する (ja) (きかする, kika suru)
• Kazakh: газдандыру (gazdandyru)
• Korean: 기화(氣化)하다 (gihwahada)
• Polish: gazyfikować impf, zgazyfikować pf, zgazowywać impf, zgazować pf
• Portuguese: gaseificar, gasificar
• Romanian: gazifica (ro)
• Russian: газифици́ровать (ru) impf or pf (gazificírovatʹ), превраща́ть в газ impf (prevraščátʹ v gaz)
• Spanish: gasificar (es)
• Vietnamese: khí hoá (氣化)