gas

gas (absolutive indefinite)
gasa (absolutive indefinite singular)
gasak (absolutive indefinite plural)
gasek (ergative indefinite)
gasak (ergative indefinite singular)
gasek (ergative indefinite plural)
gasi (dative indefinite)
gasari (dative indefinite singular)
gasei (dative indefinite plural)
gasen (genitive indefinite)
gasaren (genitive indefinite singular)
gasen (genitive indefinite plural)
gasekin (comitative indefinite)
gasarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
gasekin (comitative indefinite plural)
gasengatik (causative indefinite)
gasarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
gasengatik (causative indefinite plural)
gasentzat (benefactive indefinite)
gasarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
gasentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
gasez (indefinite instrumental)
gasaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
gasez (indefinite instrumental plural)
gasetan (indefinite inessive)
gasean (indefinite inessive singular)
gasetan (indefinite inessive plural)
gasetako (indefinite locative)
gaseko (indefinite locative singular)
gasetako (indefinite locative plural)
gasetara (allative indefinite)
gasera (allative indefinite singular)
gasetara (allative indefinite plural)
gasetaraino (indefinite terminative)
gaseraino (indefinite singular terminative)
gasetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
gasetarantz (directive indefinite)
gaserantz (directive indefinite singular)
gasetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
gasetarako (destinative indefinite)
gaserako (destinative indefinite singular)
gasetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
gasetatik (ablative indefinite)
gasetik (ablative indefinite singular)
gasetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
gasik (indefinite partitive)
gastzat (indefinite prolative)


gas

/kɛː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/kɛː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/


gas

liquefied petroleum gas
liquefied petroleum gas

nl-noun

gas n (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)

gassen (plural)
gasje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: gas

→ Caribbean Javanese: gas

→ English: gas

desctree

→ French: gaz
→ Arabic: غَاز (ḡāz)
→ Greek: γκάζι (gkázi)
→ Hebrew: גז (gaz)
→ Polish: gaz
→ Kashubian: gaz
→ Persian: گاز (gâz)
→ Portuguese: gás
→ Romanian: gaz
→ Russian: газ (gaz), газъ (gaz) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Kazakh: газ (gaz)
→ Yakut: газ (gaz)
→ Turkish: gaz

→ German: Gas

→ Saramaccan: gási

→ West Frisian: gas

Coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae (1648), by way of deliberate similarity to Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, chaos”).


gas

nl-noun

gas f (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)

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


gas

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


gas

Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.

(uncountable, physical chemistry) 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.

(uncountable) 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.

The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches.

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.

2013 July–August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 2013-09-07:

A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.

The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.

(countable, physical chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.

She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.

My tummy hurts so bad – I have gas.

But anyone with that many large brown birds aroost in his cranium and that much gas in his bottom was clearly not a well person.

2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 72:

(uncountable) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.

(business, often attributive) The supply of natural gas, as a utility.

Two more girls came in, one in bright pink stretch pants and the other in purple. “Man this place is a gas,” said pink.

1963 May, Gloria Steinem, “A Bunny's Tale”, in Show Magazine, archived from the original on 2017-10-04:

No it really doesn't matter at all / Life's a gas / I hope it's going to last

1971, Marc Bolan (lyrics and music), “Life's a Gas”, in Electric Warrior, performed by T. Rex:

Money, it's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.

1973 March 1, “Money” (track 6), in The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd:

Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out had a heart of glass

1978, “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:

Be a man, Be a man / Belsen was a gas / Be a man, kill someone

1979, “Belsen Was a Gas”, in The Great Rock ‛n’ Roll Swindle, performed by Sex Pistols:

One two! I was born in a cross-fire hurricane. And I howled at the maw in the drivin' rain. But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas. But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's a gas, gas, gas.

2011 October 11, “Jumping Jack Flash (Live 1973)” (track 14), in Brussels Affair (Live 1973), performed by The Rolling Stones:

(slang, dated) A humorous or entertaining event, person, or thing.

Bang, little boy, stop with the gas / Little T, man he chats up his ass

2017 July 1, “About That”, performed by Soph Aspin and Millie B:

(slang) Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.

The closer threw him nothing but gas.

(medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.

en-noun

gas (countable and uncountable, plural gases or gasses)

gas

(uncountable, chemistry) state of matter

بخار خفی (buxār xafî, literally “hidden steam”)

газ

(countable, chemistry) chemical element or compound

газ

(uncountable) flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture

Borrowed from Dutch gas, coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae. Derived from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps also inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”). Doublet of chaos. First attested in 1648.

der

New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore


gas

The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.

He never fully recovered after he was gassed on the Western Front.

(transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.

"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."

2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-23:

(transitive) To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.

[…] (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. […]”

1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:

"Well don't keep on gassing about it," said Digory.

1955, C. S. Lewis, chapter 3, in The Magician's Nephew, Collins, published 1998:

(intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.

I went shop and the boss man said "Don't pay me it's fine" and I said ...(whaaat): "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam" ( don't gas me), "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam".

2018 September 14, “Don't Gas Me” (track 1), in Don't Gas Me, performed by Dizzy Rascal:

(transitive, slang) To impose upon by talking boastfully.

The battery cell was gassing.

to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder

to gas thread

(transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.

en-verb

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

gasses (present singular third-person)
gases (present singular third-person)
gassing (participle present)
gassed (participle past)
gassed (past)


gas

(uncountable, Canada, US, New Zealand) Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.

(uncountable, by extension) Ellipsis of gas pedal; accelerator.

Coordinate term: Ether

gas fee

Gas is the fuel of Ethereum. Gas is not ether–it's a separate virtual currency with its own exchange rate against ether. Ethereum uses gas to control the amount of resources that transactions can use[…]

2018, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood, Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:

The average “gas fee” – transaction cost – of an Ethereum transaction is between US$85 and US $156, according to crypto.com data.

2021 November 6, Ben Butler, “Australian banks are opening up to cryptocurrency: what does it mean for you?”, in The Guardian:

(uncountable, cryptocurrencies) An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.

(slang, uncountable) Marijuana, typically of high quality.


gas

The cops are coming. Gas it!

(US) To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it.

Between 0945 and 1020 six definite explosions were reported in the hangar. Explosions at 0945 and 1006 were described as minor while those at 1002, 1003 and 1005 were classed as major explosions and the explosion at 1020 was described as a heavy explosion but less severe than some previous ones. The cause of these explosions was not reported and can only be estimated from the damage sustained by the ship and the known condition of loading. Each of the six torpedo planes spotted in the hangar was armed with one Mark 13, torpex-loaded torpedo and was fully gassed, including auxiliary wing tanks. Explosions in the hangar therefore might have been either detonations of torpedoes or gasoline vapor explosions.

1947 October 30, Bureau of Ships, “SECTION III - DISCUSSION”, in U.S.S. Princeton (CVL23): Loss in Action, Battle for Leyte Gulf, 24 October 1944, United States Hydrographic Office, archived from the original on 2024-06-25, B. Fires and Explosions in Hangar., page 8:

(US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.

давам газ

give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate


gas

Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.

It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.

The other models were gas fun, though they were all a bit hoity-toity.

2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 113:

en-adj

gas (comparative gasser, superlative gassest)

gasser (comparative)
gassest (superlative)

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


gas

is-noun

gas n (genitive singular gass, nominative plural gös)

gass (genitive singular)
gös (nominative plural)
gas (indefinite nominative singular)
gasið (definite nominative singular)
gös (indefinite nominative plural)
gösin (definite nominative plural)
gas (accusative indefinite singular)
gasið (accusative definite singular)
gös (accusative indefinite plural)
gösin (accusative definite plural)
gasi (dative indefinite singular)
gasinu (dative definite singular)
gösum (dative indefinite plural)
gösunum (dative definite plural)
gass (genitive indefinite singular)
gassins (definite genitive singular)
gasa (genitive indefinite plural)
gasanna (definite genitive plural)


gas

gas n (genitive singular gass, no plural)

gass (genitive singular)
gas (indefinite nominative singular)
gasið (definite nominative singular)
gas (accusative indefinite singular)
gasið (accusative definite singular)
gasi (dative indefinite singular)
gasinu (dative definite singular)
gass (genitive indefinite singular)
gassins (definite genitive singular)


gas

(chemistry, physics) 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.

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.

id-noun

gas (plural gas-gas, first-person possessive gasku, second-person possessive gasmu, third-person possessive gasnya)

gas-gas (plural)
gasku (first-person possessive)
gasmu (possessive second-person)
gasnya (possessive third-person)

From Dutch gas (“gas”), a term coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”) or by chaos (“chaos”), from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void”).


gas

(colloquial) to hit the gas, to accelerate.


gas

head

gas m (genitive singular gais, nominative plural gais or gasa)

gais (genitive singular)
gais (nominative plural)
gasa (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
gas (indefinite singular)
gais (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a ghais (indefinite singular)
a ghasa (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
gais (indefinite singular)
gas (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an gas (definite singular)
na gais (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an ghais (definite singular)
na ngas (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an ngas (definite singular)
don ghas (definite singular)
leis na gais (definite plural)
gas
ghas
ngas


gas

la-noun

gas n (genitive gasis); third declension

gasis (genitive)
gas (nominative singular)
gasa (nominative plural)
gasis (genitive singular)
gasum (genitive plural)
gasī (dative singular)
gasibus (dative plural)
gas (accusative singular)
gasa (accusative plural)
gase (ablative singular)
gasibus (ablative plural)
gas (singular vocative)
gasa (plural vocative)

Coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont (appearing in his Ortus Medicinae as an invariable noun).


gas

(physics) One of the four states of matter.

(uncountable, physical chemistry) 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.

The gas that is released by coal factories.

The vapour that is released by petrol or gasoline.

ms-noun

gas (Jawi spelling ݢس, plural gas-gas, informal 1st possessive gasku, 2nd possessive gasmu, 3rd possessive gasnya)

ݢس (Jawi)
gas-gas (plural)
gasku (first-person informal possessive)
gasmu (possessive second-person)
gasnya (possessive third-person)

From English gas, from Dutch gas, coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae. Derived from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps also inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”).


gas

From Old French gars, nominative singular form of garçon.


gas

gasen (definite singular)
gaser (indefinite plural)
gasene (definite plural)


gas

gasen (definite singular)
gasar (indefinite plural)
gasane (definite plural)


gas

gās (canonical feminine)
gās (nominative singular)
gās (nominative plural)
gāses (accusative singular)
gāse (accusative plural)
gās (genitive singular)
gās (genitive plural)
gāsō (dative singular)
gāsum (dative plural)

Low German: Goos

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


gas

gās (canonical feminine)
gās (indefinite nominative singular)
gāsin (definite nominative singular)
gǣs (indefinite nominative plural)
gǣssinar (definite nominative plural)
-ena (definite nominative plural)
-enar (definite nominative plural)
gās (accusative indefinite singular)
gāsina (accusative definite singular)
-ena (accusative definite singular)
gǣs (accusative indefinite plural)
gǣssinar (accusative definite plural)
-ena (accusative definite plural)
-enar (accusative definite plural)
gās (dative indefinite singular)
gāsinni (dative definite singular)
-inne (dative definite singular)
gāsum (dative indefinite plural)
-om (dative indefinite plural)
gāsumin (dative definite plural)
-omen (dative definite plural)
gāsa (genitive indefinite singular)
gāsar (genitive indefinite singular)
inna (definite genitive singular)
innar (definite genitive singular)
gāsa (genitive indefinite plural)
gāsanna (definite genitive plural)

gmq-osw-decl-noun-table

gās (consonant stem)

Swedish: gås

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


gas

From Dutch gas (“gas”), invented by Jan Baptiste van Helmont, from Latin chaos (“chaos”).


gas

(chiefly Bosnia, Serbia or colloquial) gas (state of matter)

dȁti gȃs

gȃs (canonical masculine)
га̑с (Cyrillic)
gȃs (nominative singular)
gásovi (nominative plural)
gasa (genitive singular)
gásōvā (genitive plural)
gasu (dative singular)
gasovima (dative plural)
gȃs (accusative singular)
gasove (accusative plural)
gase (singular vocative)
gasovi (plural vocative)
gásu (locative singular)
gasovima (locative plural)
gasom (instrumental singular)
gasovima (instrumental plural)


gas

gas (an element or compound in such a state)

(in the plural) gas (waste gases trapped in one's belly)

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”).


gas

gas; a compound or element in such a state

trampa på gasen

full gas

gasen i botten

gas pedal, acceleration (compare gaspedal (“gas pedal”) and gasa (“accelerate, hit the gas”))

gas (indefinite nominative singular)
gas (genitive indefinite singular)
gasen (definite nominative singular)
gasens (definite genitive singular)
gaser (indefinite nominative plural)
gasers (genitive indefinite plural)
gaserna (definite nominative plural)
gasernas (definite genitive plural)


gas

(chiefly in compounds) gauze (thin fabric with a loose, open weave)


gas

Either from English gas, itself a clipping of gasoline, or a clipping of gasolina.


gas

Either from Spanish gas or English gas, ultimately from Dutch gas.