gas

See also: Gas, gás, gaś, gãs, gås, gą̊s, gæs, gæs', gås', and Gaś

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡæs/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æs

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch gas, a word coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont. Probably from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void”).

Noun

gas (countable and uncountable, plural gases or gasses)

  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 in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly.
    • 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:
      Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
    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.
Synonyms
  • (state of matter): vapor / vapour
  • (digestive process): wind, fart (when gas is released) (US, slang)
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To kill with poisonous gas.
  2. (intransitive) To talk, chat.
    • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
      […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
    • 1955, C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, Collins, 1998, Chapter 3,
      "Well don't keep on gassing about it," said Digory.
  3. (intransitive) To emit gas.
    The battery cell was gassing.
  4. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
    to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder
  5. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
    to gas thread
Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of gasoline.

Noun

gas (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
  2. (US) Gas pedal.
Synonyms
  • (gasoline): gasoline (US), petrol (British)
  • See also Thesaurus:petroleum.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

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.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

Compare the slang usage of "a gas", above.

Adjective

gas (comparative gasser, superlative gassest)

  1. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing
    • 2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 113:
      The other models were gas fun, though they were all a bit hoity-toity.
    Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
    It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology 1

From Dutch gast.

Noun

gas (plural gaste)

  1. guest

Etymology 2

From Dutch gas.

Noun

gas (plural gasse)

  1. gas (substance in gaseous phase)

Basque

Noun

gas

  1. gas

Declension

"gas"
(inanimate noun) declension
indefinite singular plural
absolutivegasgasagasak
ergativegasekgasakgasek
dativegasigasarigasei
genitivegasengasarengasen
comitativegasekingasarekingasekin
causativegasentzatgasarentzatgasentzat
benefactivegasengatikgasarengatikgasengatik
instrumentalgasezgasazgasez
inessivegasetangasangasetan
locativegasetakogasekogasetako
allativegasetaragaseragasetara
terminativegasetarainogaserainogasetaraino
directivegasetarantzgaserantzgasetarantz
destinativegasetarakogaserakogasetarako
ablativegasetatikgasetikgasetatik
partitivegasik
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prolativegastzat
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Derived terms

Catalan

Noun

gas m (plural gasos)

  1. gas

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣɑs/
  • Rhymes: -ɑs

Etymology 1

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

Noun

gas n (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)

  1. gas
  2. liquefied petroleum gas
    Synonyms: autogas, LPG
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: gas
  • → English: gas
  • → French: gaz
  • → West Frisian: gas

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch gasse (“unpaved street”), from Middle High German gazze, from Old High German gazza, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

Noun

gas f (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)

  1. unpaved street

Etymology 3

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

gas

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

Galician

Noun

gas m (plural gases)

  1. gas

Synonyms

Derived terms

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaːs/
  • Rhymes: -aːs

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch gas.

Noun

gas n (genitive singular gass, nominative plural gös)

  1. gas (state of matter)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French gaze.

Noun

gas n (genitive singular gass, no plural)

  1. gauze
Declension
Derived terms
  • gasbleia

Anagrams

Indonesian

Noun

gas

  1. gas

Interlingua

Noun

gas

  1. gas

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

gas m (genitive singular gais, nominative plural gais)

  1. stalk, stem
  2. sprig, shoot, frond
  3. (figuratively) stripling; scion

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

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.

Italian

Noun

gas m

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

Synonyms

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

gas n (genitive gasis); third declension

  1. (physics) gas (state of matter)

Inflection

Third declension.

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

References

Norman

Etymology

From Old French gars, nominative singular form of garçon.

Noun

gas m (plural gas)

  1. (Jersey) chap

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French gaze

Noun

gas m (definite singular gasen, indefinite plural gaser, definite plural gasene)

  1. gauze

See also

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French gaze

Noun

gas m (definite singular gasen, indefinite plural gasar, definite plural gasane)

  1. gauze

See also

References

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.

Noun

gās f

  1. a goose

Declension

Descendants

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gás, from Proto-Germanic *gans.

Noun

gās f

  1. goose

Declension

Descendants

Rohingya

Etymology

From Sanskrit.

Noun

gas

  1. tree

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡâːs/

Noun

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

Declension

Synonyms

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed 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 (kháos, “chasm, void”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡas/

Noun

gas m (plural gases)

  1. gas (matter between liquid and plasma)
  2. gas (an element or compound in such a state)
  3. gas (flammable gas used for combustion)
  4. (in the plural) gas (waste gases trapped in one's belly)

Derived terms

Anagrams

Further reading

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • audio(file)

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of gas 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative gas gasen gaser gaserna
Genitive gas gasens gasers gasernas

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡaːs/

Verb

gas

  1. Soft mutation of cas.

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch gas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡas/

Noun

gas n

  1. gas

Westrobothnian

Noun

gas n

  1. romping, cry (of joy)
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