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|adjective|
1.Very amusing or entertaining.
‘Ruthie, that’s gas—you’re a gem’
‘That sounds gas that the two of them are chattering and getting on so well.’
|noun|
1.A flammable gas used as a fuel.
‘cooking is done by bottled gas’
‘We have to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, so we need more wind farms to produce cleaner electricity.’
2.A gaseous anaesthetic such as nitrous oxide, used in dentistry.
‘He compared being so short of hand towels to running out of anaesthetic gas during an operation.’
‘Nowadays, general anaesthesia is seldom administered via a mask and anaesthetic gas or vapour.’
3.A gaseous substance that cannot be liquefied by the application of pressure alone.
‘Nitrogen dioxide is a brown gas, transformed from nitric oxide contained in emissions.’
‘The resulting ester was saponified under basic conditions to the free acid, converted to the acyl chloride with thionyl chloride, and then to the amide with anhydrous ammonia gas.’
4.A substance or matter in a state in which it will expand freely to fill the whole of a container, having no fixed shape (unlike a solid) and no fixed volume (unlike a liquid)
‘hot balls of gas that become stars’
‘poisonous gases’
5.An entertaining or amusing person or situation.
‘the party would be a gas’
‘Since then, it’s been a rather gentle decline, although many in the UK during the 80s and 90s still thought I was a gas.’
6.An explosive mixture of firedamp with air.
‘Late in the afternoon, during the shift change, an explosion of methane gas, ″firedamp,″ blasted deep in the underground workings.’
‘To clear mines of gas - be it explosive or poisonous - a crude system of ventilation was used.’
7.Enjoyment, amusement, or fun.
‘it was great gas in the club last night’
‘It was great gas and he always ended up feeling glad that he lived in Ireland after he’d watch it.’
8.Gas generated in the alimentary canal; flatulence.
‘Some people get a lot of gas from foods that don’t bother others.’
‘This is especially true if you have had a procedure that typically leads to a large amount of intestinal gas, such as a colonoscopy with polypectomy.’
9.Gas or vapour used as a poisonous agent in warfare.
‘gas was one of the most dreaded weapons of the war’
‘In one case, military police sprayed pepper gas on a group of university students to stop them from singing while waiting to be removed from the Navy base.’
10.Used in reference to power or the accelerator of a car.
‘we stopped for gas’
‘She drove, making two stops for gas on the way home to Sager’s Creek.’
|verb|
1.(of a storage battery or dry cell) give off gas.
‘the maintenance-free charger controls the input without inducing _gassing_ ’
‘It is however possible to compress the cell packs subsequent to their formation and prior to inserting them into their final container to expel at least a proportion of their electrolyte which will reduce the amount of electrolyte which needs to be gassed off in the finished cells.’
2.Fill the tank of (a motor vehicle) with petrol.
‘after _gassing_ up the car, he went into the restaurant’
‘At one of the pumps, an unshaved man in racing clothes was _gassing_ up his motorcycle.’
3.Kill or harm by exposure to gas.
‘my son was gassed at Verdun’
‘In other words, it cannot gas enemy soldiers, but it reserves the right to gas prisoners and civilians!’
4.Talk excessively about trivial matters.
‘I thought you’d never stop _gassing_ ’
‘First, the idea that the acme of being civilised is lying around your dining table _gassing_ about culture and politics in a nice city, while the slaves do the washing up.’
独上高台望四海 手揽云月傍天飞， 落叶重重已十月 归鸟凄凄啼心扉。
