gas | Lernwerd

Forms

1.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.
- A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
- The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches.
- Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.
2.A chemical element or compound in such a state.
- The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.
3.A hob on a gas cooker.
- She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
4.Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
- 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.

1.To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.(slang)
- "Well don't keep on gassing about it," said Digory.
2.To impose upon by talking boastfully.(slang)
- I went shop and the boss man said "Don't pay me it's fine" and I said ..(whaaat): "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam" ( don't gas me), "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam".
3.To attack or kill with poison gas.
- The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
- He never fully recovered after he was gassed on the Western Front.
4.To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂-der.

Ancient Greek χαῦνος (khaûnos)

Ancient Greek χάος (kháos)der.

Dutch gasbor.

English gas