EGAVE

gas

About 57.89 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Adiwasi Garasia.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas.
    Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.
  4. noun Poison gas.
    The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches.
  5. noun A chemical element or compound in such a state.
    The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.
  6. noun A hob on a gas cooker.
    She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
  7. noun 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.
  8. noun The supply of natural gas, as a utility.

Similar words

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Word family

GAS gases gassed gasses gassing

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