gas

gas1 [ gæs ] noun ***

1. ) uncount AMERICAN liquid fuel that is used for producing power in the engines of cars. British petrol: GASOLINE:

get gas: We need to get some gas before we leave town.

2. ) count or uncount a substance such as air that is neither a solid nor a liquid:

regulations to cut the emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide

They detected high levels of radon gas in the building.

a ) uncount a gas burned as fuel, for example to heat your house or cook food:

a gas stove/heater/boiler

She couldn't pay her gas bill.

Can you smell gas?

b ) uncount a gas used for harming or killing people or affecting their behavior:

Police used gas to disperse the crowd.

A nerve gas attack left hundreds injured.

c ) uncount AMERICAN a gas produced inside your body by your stomach. British usually wind If you pass gas, air comes out of your bottom.

d ) uncount a gas given to people before an operation or medical treatment so they will feel no pain

run out of gas AMERICAN

to no longer have the energy to continue or finish something

someone/something is a gas SPOKEN

used for saying that someone/something makes you laugh a lot

give it some gas SPOKEN

used for telling someone to go faster or press the GAS PEDAL in a car

gas

gas 2 [ gæs ] verb

1. ) transitive to attack or kill someone by making them breathe a poisonous gas

2. ) intransitive INFORMAL to talk a lot about unimportant things

,gas `up phrasal verb intransitive or transitive AMERICAN INFORMAL

to put gas in a car or other vehicle:

Let's gas up before we get on the highway.