Meaning

• 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 lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder."

• A chemical element or compound in such a state.

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

• 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.

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

• A hob on a gas cooker.

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

• Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.

  "My tummy hurts so bad, I have gas."

• A humorous or entertaining event or person.

  "He is such a gas!"

• Frothy talk; chatter.

• A fastball.

  "The closer threw him nothing but gas."

• Arterial or venous blood gas.

• Marijuana, typically of high quality.

Meaning

• To kill with poisonous gas.

• To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.

• To impose upon by talking boastfully.

• To emit gas.

  "The battery cell was gassing."

• To impregnate with gas.

  "to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder"

• To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.

  "to gas thread"