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Meaning in simple English
US /ɡæs/
gas means: A fuel that is burned to cook food, heat buildings, or produce electricity.
noun
A fuel that is burned to cook food, heat buildings, or produce electricity.
- We heat our house with gas.
- The gas bill was high last winter.
- Workers repaired a gas leak in the street.
The liquid fuel used by many cars and other vehicles.
- The car needs gas.
- We stopped for gas before crossing the desert.
- How much gas does your truck use?
A substance like air that spreads out to fill its container and is neither solid nor liquid.
- Oxygen is a gas.
- The balloon contains a gas lighter than air.
- Some gases become liquids when cooled.
The pedal you press with your foot to make a vehicle go faster.
- She pressed the gas.
- Take your foot off the gas before the bend.
- He hit the gas and drove away quickly.
Air in your stomach or bowels that can cause discomfort or leave your body through burping or farting.
- Beans can give me gas.
- The baby had gas after feeding.
- A short walk helped relieve the trapped gas.
The part of a cooker where fuel burns beneath a pan.
- Put the kettle on the gas.
- She turned the gas down when the soup began to boil.
- Have you turned the gas off under the pan?
verb
To put fuel into a vehicle's tank.
- Let's gas up here.
- She gassed up the truck before work.
- Have you gassed the car up for our trip?
To use poisonous fumes to harm or kill someone, or use fumes to make someone unconscious.
- They gassed the rats in the warehouse.
- Many soldiers were gassed during the war.
- The animals were gassed to make them unconscious before surgery.
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