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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. gasses: Merriam-Webster
  2. gasses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gasses: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gasses: Vocabulary.com
  5. Gasses, gasses: Wordnik
  6. gasses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gasses: Wiktionary
  8. gasses: Dictionary.com
  9. Gasses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. gasses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gasses: Legal dictionary

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  1. gasses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gasses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. gasses: Medical dictionary

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  1. gasses: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (GAS)

noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (uncountable, military) Poison gas.
noun:  (countable, physical chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
noun:  (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
noun:  (uncountable) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
noun:  (business, often attributive) The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
noun:  (slang, dated) A humorous or entertaining event, person, or thing.
noun:  (slang) Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
noun:  (baseball) A fastball.
noun:  (medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.
verb:  (transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.
verb:  (transitive) To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To impose upon by talking boastfully.
verb:  (intransitive) To emit gas.
verb:  (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
verb:  (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
noun:  (uncountable, Canada, US, New Zealand) Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
noun:  (uncountable, cryptocurrencies) An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
verb:  (US) To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it.
verb:  (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
adjective:  (slang) Comical, zany; fun, amusing.
noun:  A commune in Eure-et-Loir, France.
noun:  A city in Kansas.
noun:  (uncountable, by extension) Ellipsis of gas pedal; accelerator, throttle. [(Canada, US, automotive) An accelerator; a foot control for fuel flow.]
noun:  Acronym of group A Streptococcus.
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