gas

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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noun, verb
+ noun
(plural gases or less frequent gasses)
not solid / liquid
1 [C, U] any substance like air that is neither a solid nor a liquid, for example HYDROGEN and OXYGEN are both gases: Air is a mixture of gases. + CFC gases + a gas bottle / cylinder (= for storing gas)
See also - GREENHOUSE GAS
2 [U] a particular type of gas or mixture of gases used as fuel for heating and cooking: a gas cooker / fire / furnace / oven / ring / stove + a gas explosion / leak + gas central heating + (BrE) Preheat the oven to gas mark 5 (= a particular temperature of a gas oven)
See also - CALOR GAS, COAL GAS, NATURAL GAS
3 [U] a particular type of gas used during a medical operation, to make the patient sleep or to make the pain less: an anaesthetic gas + Did you have gas or an injection? + During the birth she was given gas and air.
See also - LAUGHING GAS
4 [U] a particular type of gas used in war to kill or injure people, or used by the police to control people: a gas attack
See also - CS GAS, MUSTARD GAS, NERVE GAS, TEAR GAS
in vehicle
5 [U] (AmE) = PETROL: a gas station
6 (the gas) [sing.] (especially AmE) = GAS PEDAL: Step on the gas, we're late.
fun
7 [sing.] (especially AmE) a person or an event that is fun: The party was a real gas.
in stomach
8 [U] (AmE) = WIND (2)
Idioms see COOK v.
+ verb (-ss-)
kill / harm with gas
1 [VN] to kill or harm sb by making them breathe poisonous gas: She gassed herself with fumes from the car's exhaust pipe. + He was gassed in the war.
talk
2 [V] (usually used in the progressive tenses) (old-fashioned, informal) to talk for a long time about things that are not important
Synonym: CHAT
I thought he'd never stop gassing!

Collocation dictionary

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¹ substance like air

ADJ.

noxious, poisonous, toxic | explosive, inflammable, radioactive | inert | exhaust, greenhouse

pollution from greenhouse gases

| nerve, tear

Police used water cannon and tear gas against demonstrators.

VERB + GAS

give off, produce

It gives off a poisonous gas as it rots down.

GAS + VERB

build up

Noxious gases had built up in the sewer.

| escape, leak

Toxic gases can escape through one of the pipes.

² for heating/cooking

ADJ.

butane, coal, natural, propane | bottled, Calor

VERB + GAS

cook with

I prefer to cook with gas.

| light, turn on

I lit the gas and put the soup on to warm.

GAS + NOUN

appliance, boiler, central heating, cooker, fire, lamp, oven | bottle, cylinder, pipeline | board | industry | field

tapping the North Sea gas fields

| supply | works

Local gas works were closed as natural gas became available.

| leak

All gas leaks should be reported as soon as possible.

PHRASES

gas mark 2, 3, etc.

Set the oven at gas mark 4.

Concise English dictionary

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gassed|gasses|gassing|gasesgæs
noun
+the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
+a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
+a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
+a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
+a pedal that controls the throttle valve
+a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes
verb
+attack with gas; subject to gas fumes
+show off

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