Definition of gas in English:

gas

nounPlural gases, Plural gasses ɡasɡæs

mass noun

1A substance or matter in a state in which it will expand freely to fill the whole of a container, having no fixed shape (unlike a solid) and no fixed volume (unlike a liquid)
hot balls of gas that become stars
演变成恒星的热气团。
count noun poisonous gases
有毒气体。
Example sentencesExamples
- All these gasses emitted in the atmosphere MAY act as a shield, and hold in the heat.
- More than likely you will see a straight line cut into it from hot gasses escaping from the barrel/cylinder gap.
- As part of the project, pupils at the three Kerry schools will work to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses produced by their schools.
- The treaty gives industrialized nations eight years to cut their collective emissions of six key greenhouse gasses.
- The hydrogen either will be absorbed in soils or react with other gasses in the atmosphere.
- He looked over his shoulder at the source of the transmission, only to see a rapidly expanding ball of gasses and wreckage.
- Because the atmosphere includes greenhouse gasses, solar warming and greenhouse warming are related.
- Sea turtle lungs are adapted to permit a rapid exchange of oxygen and to prevent the formation of gasses during deep dives.
- Burning rubbish - plastics, treated wood, and old chemical containers release poisonous gasses when they are burnt.
- Chris had his committed cluster hunters searched for X-rays, the telltale signs of the incredibly hot gasses in a galaxy cluster.
- They have the ability to ‘breath’ or exchange gasses through the skin as well as the lungs.
- These gasses are heavier than air and offer better insulation.
- The £1.7 million car emits no carbon dioxide or other gasses, and the water that dribbles out of the exhaust pipe is so clean you can drink it.
- The spherical wavefront of expanding gasses and space debris burst past the Aspiration, rocking the vehicle even through the shielding.
- Due to its electric drive, it is completely independent from the turbocharger and the thermal energy of the exhaust gasses.
- Greenhouse gasses are in Earth's atmosphere and warm the planet.
- It's difficult to separate natural variability from greenhouse gasses.
- I combined all the ingredients and I tied off the bag leaving plenty of room for the gasses to expand into.
- Boyle's Law is a statement of the relationship between the pressure and volume of gasses.
- Increases in temperatures and greenhouse gasses have been even sharper since the 1950s.
Synonyms
discussion, talk, chat, gossip, tête-à-tête, heart-to-heart, head-to-head, exchange, dialogue, parley, consultation, conference
1. 1.1Physics A gaseous substance that cannot be liquefied by the application of pressure alone.
  〔物理〕仅靠压力无法液化的气体物质。比较VAPOUR
  Compare with vapour
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nitrogen dioxide is a brown gas, transformed from nitric oxide contained in emissions.
  Free oxygen was released when ultraviolet light hit carbon monoxide gas.
  The simplest sources are hydrogen-rich compounds like hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide gas and hydrocarbons.
  The resulting ester was saponified under basic conditions to the free acid, converted to the acyl chloride with thionyl chloride, and then to the amide with anhydrous ammonia gas.
  Carbon dioxide gas is heavier than oxygen, so it displaces the oxygen surrounding the burning fuel.
  Synonyms
  chat, talk, conversation, chatter, heart-to-heart, tête-à-tête, powwow, blether, blather
2. 1.2 A flammable gas used as a fuel.
  可燃气体，气体燃料
  cooking is done by bottled gas
  Example sentencesExamples
  Furthermore, the availability of a major source of gas in south-west Wales could potentially attract other industries which need gas as a fuel.
  We can go on to by-products of petroleum such as plastics and with gas as fuel we can do aluminium products with bauxite from Guyana and Jamaica.
  The price of food items sold at hotels has already jumped by 15 to 25 percent and the cost of commodities produced by factories using gas as a fuel will be affected.
  It's like the difference between rocket fuel and cheap gas.
  Cheaper gas and fuel will give households more money to spend on other items.
  The engines are fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, which means that there is no risk of a fire breaking out.
  Gas and diesel convergence: to fend off fuel cells, gas and diesel engine experts are swapping efficiency secrets
  Most were put in a pile, doused with gas and fuel oil, and set afire.
  It needs expensive or scarce fuel, such as gas or wood, to heat it and experience to run it.
  It can be used as a fuel in power stations to generate electricity or heat as an environmental alternative to burning fossil fuels such as gas, coal and oil.
  Along with other fossil fuels like coal and gas.
  The booming economy is also enticing new industries into the country and encouraging existing businesses to expand, fuelling further demands for gas.
  As mentioned before, water can wind up in your gas or diesel fuel as a result of condensation in the tank.
  The tax will apply to coal, gas, petrol, diesel and other fuels.
  So in the House today, the Greens are advocating, for some reason, the burning of fossil fuels - gas in Auckland and diesel along with wind generation.
  Another cylinder of gas is required to fuel the single ring burner used to boil the kettle.
  We have to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, so we need more wind farms to produce cleaner electricity.
  Mother Nature's fossil fuels, oil and gas are running out fast and if we do not wish to be held to ransom by imported energy our representatives must act now.
  Hydrogen can either be generated by wind or solar energy, or by using fossil fuels such as gas.
  The country is relatively rich in mineral resources but, unlike Russia, is underendowed in fuels such as gas, oil, and coal.
3. 1.3 A gaseous anaesthetic such as nitrous oxide, used in dentistry.
  麻醉气（如用于牙科的氧化亚氮）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nowadays, general anaesthesia is seldom administered via a mask and anaesthetic gas or vapour.
  The condor was put under anaesthetic gas for the 20 minute procedure - carried out by zoo vet Brash in Flamingo Land's own clinic a fortnight ago.
  This form of anesthesia was easily controlled by stopping the gas, and the patient would revive quickly.
  He compared being so short of hand towels to running out of anaesthetic gas during an operation.
  Two other reports exist of nitrous oxide anaesthesia being used in patients with intraocular gas in a closed eye.
  The gas used for anaesthetic purposes is a mixture of 80 per cent nitrous oxide and 20 per cent oxygen.
4. 1.4 Gas or vapour used as a poisonous agent in warfare.
  （战争中使敌人丧生或致残的）毒气
  gas was one of the most dreaded weapons of the war
  Example sentencesExamples
  The use of the gas in warfare is banned under international chemical weapons treaties.
  This year is the 90th anniversary of the invention of modern gas warfare.
  In one case, military police sprayed pepper gas on a group of university students to stop them from singing while waiting to be removed from the Navy base.
  Think of the urine soaked handkerchiefs used by Canadian soldiers in The Great War to repel the effects of German poison gases.
  If there is a gas or nerve agent attack and you are not wearing a full NBC suit, a suitable respirator or immediate access to a nerve agent antidote injection, you will die.
  He made a specialty of chemical and gas warfare and minefields and his war caused a million deaths.
  Videos from his collection, showing dogs being killed by poisonous gas or a nerve agent, were recently aired on CNN.
  The name was a hangover from the First World War, when the larger mortars were employed to lay down smoke or gas.
  Machine-guns, gas, high explosives, flame-throwers and air attacks slaughtered the lines of men marching out of the trenches.
  According to radio reports military police used pepper gas spray to overpower him, but that could not be officially confirmed.
  In 1992, 43 tons of chlorine gas were released in Henderson, Nevada, causing distress to hundreds of people.
  Whether or not gas will be employed in future wars is a matter of conjecture.
  CS gas grenades were originally made like smoke grenades, with the CS irritant being emitted through apertures in the top.
  Instantaneous fuses and gas or smoke shells made possible heavy and lethal barrages that did not make ground impassable to assaulting infantry.
  Synonyms
  fumes, exhaust, vapour
5. 1.5North American Gas generated in the alimentary canal; flatulence.
  〈主北美〉胃气，肠气;
  Example sentencesExamples
  Notably, the peritoneal cavity was dry and was not distended with gas.
  A colicky baby more likely has gas because of the colic.
  Oral cholecystography is used when patients are obese and have a large amount of overlying bowel gas which makes ultrasonography more difficult.
  You may feel bloated or have gas for a few hours after the exam.
  An increase in abdominal gas may be due to three complications.
  Dosing is limited by gastrointestinal side effects of gas, bloating, and constipation.
  Digestion of beans and other complex carbohydrates requires gas-producing bacteria, leading to increased gas.
  However, although painful abdominal gas may contribute to colic, there is little evidence to prove it's due to gastrointestinal problems.
  Some people get a lot of gas from foods that don't bother others.
  For general bloating and gas, over-the-counter products containing simethicone can help.
  A chest and abdominal film from the first day of life demonstrated the ectopia cordis and a paucity of bowel gas in the abdomen.
  In this patient you do see gas in the distal bowel.
  This is especially true if you have had a procedure that typically leads to a large amount of intestinal gas, such as a colonoscopy with polypectomy.
  This slows down your digestion and can cause gas to build up.
  Her last bowel movement had occurred 3 days previously, and she had not passed any gas for more than 24 hours.
  Intestinal gas is typically caused by the fermentation of undigested food, such as plant fiber, in the colon.
  To avoid problems with gas, add high-fiber foods to your diet slowly.
  This almost involuntary practice relieves the symptom but it also produces gas and bloating.
  Supine and upright abdominal radiographs with stepladder pattern of air-fluid levels and no colonic gas are suggestive of obstruction.
  The most commonly reported side effects are gas, constipation, stomach pain, and indigestion.
  Synonyms
  intestinal gas, wind
6. 1.6Mining An explosive mixture of firedamp with air.
  〔矿〕瓦斯
  Example sentencesExamples
  To clear mines of gas - be it explosive or poisonous - a crude system of ventilation was used.
  Late in the afternoon, during the shift change, an explosion of methane gas, "firedamp," blasted deep in the underground workings.
2North American
we stopped for gas
short for gasoline
Example sentencesExamples
- But we do know she encountered them in her attempt to stop and get gas.
- Sure, we made a couple stops for gas, food, and nature calls, but I really didn't expect to get here so late.
- She drove, making two stops for gas on the way home to Sager's Creek.
- I had to stop in Jamestown for gas and that is where I realized I didn't have my house keys.
- But we guessed correctly, and turning lights on, stopping only for gas, drove east.
- When I stopped for gas, it wasn't uncommon for me to grab a bag of chips, a soda and some candy, too.
- Sometimes Bud stops to get gas, and this always feels like a momentous occasion.
- We were stopping for gas beyond the edge of town and spotted some Arundo growing on a knoll behind the filling station.
- So the manager says if the price of gas goes above that, he's going to have to stop selling gas.
- We were waiting on a retro pick-up and stopped for gas aboard a nearby ship.
- When the team stopped for gas, their vans were filled up with unleaded instead of diesel gasoline.
- We stopped for gas on the way home and were parking in front of her house when she turned to relate what I've come to think of as the quintessential Lisa story.
- The Turkish move to stop buying gas altogether paid off and Iran finally agreed to decrease the prices.
- On the way home, we stopped for some gas and lottery tickets.
- Those gas prices are not stopping tens of thousands of travelers from hitting the roadways around Chicago tonight after a winter storm hit the Windy City today.
- The Jeep started to tip backward and he gave it more gas which caused it to flip over.
- His father owns a roadside store, a popular stop for gas and takeout.
- Now I know it's surprising to see a different gas price every time you stop at a Texonobil.
- We stopped for gas at Stovepipe Wells, a minimal town boasting an elevation of five feet above sea level, and a mandatory T-shirt purchase location.
- Before a trip out of town, I stopped for gas at the Shell station on Angell Street.
1. 2.1 Used in reference to power or the accelerator of a car.
  I ordered my friend to step on the gas
  Example sentencesExamples
  The victim reported that she placed her vehicle in reverse and ducked down as she stepped on the gas swerving back and forth out of the immediate intersection.
  As soon as she was out of the car, Ray stepped on the gas and shot forward, trying to run over my grandmother.
  But there also are consequences for signaling to criminals that they can escape by just stepping on the gas.
  He stepped on the gas and the rear end of his car first swerved gently to the right, and then to the left.
  Wellings was three over through the first three holes and five over at the turn, but stepped on the gas on the back nine to close with a spectacular three-under 33 to finish at 74.
  His ‘Baby Boy’ discovery, Tyrese, steps on the gas and leaves former star Diesel in the dust.
3a gasinformal An entertaining or amusing person or situation.
the party would be a gas
这个聚会会很好玩的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Since then, it's been a rather gentle decline, although many in the UK during the 80s and 90s still thought I was a gas.
- We both thought it a bit crazy at the time, and we also thought it would be a gas.
Synonyms
laugh
wit, hoot, comedian, comic, entertainer, joker, clown, buffoon
1. 3.1Irish mass noun Enjoyment, amusement, or fun.
  〈爱尔兰〉快乐；娱乐；乐趣
  it was great gas in the club last night
  昨晚在俱乐部玩得太高兴了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was great gas and he always ended up feeling glad that he lived in Ireland after he'd watch it.

verbgases, gassed, gassing ɡasɡæs

[with object]

1Kill or harm by exposure to gas.
用（毒气）毒死
my son was gassed at Verdun
我儿子在凡尔登受到毒气伤害。
Example sentencesExamples
- In other words, it cannot gas enemy soldiers, but it reserves the right to gas prisoners and civilians!
- When animals are killed on fur farms they are gassed or beaten and many of them are alive when they are skinned.
- How would he feel if his father had been gassed, shot or hung in Auschwitz or Dachau, instead of his luckier fate, enjoying a good, long life hurling insults at others?
- She had to listen helplessly for an hour as her sons were gassed in the back of a car by her estranged husband.
- His tens of thousands of victims were often gassed or shot in the back of the head or tortured to death, but I have not heard that they were photographed in their t-shirts.
- As one character says here, with desperate weariness: ‘We electrocuted him, gassed him, put him in front of a firing squad.’
- So the first prisoners to be gassed are transported back to the ‘old Reich’ in Germany to be murdered.
- They are in Britain because their families were gassed and murdered by his regime.
- Yesterday journalists returned to the theatre to see the women once again, only this time they were sitting in the plush red seats of the stalls where they had been apparently gassed and then shot dead.
- After the uprising, 7,000 people were gassed in extermination camps, while 30,000 were shot there.
- It is the most humane method as opposed to shooting or gassing the fox.
- There were camps built to exterminate them; most were gassed, but some were shot, drowned, or starved to death.
- But it's only at the end of the film that we learn what appears to have really happened: it is he himself who killed his mother, gassing her whilst apparently suffering from a delusion that she is another person.
- Six death camps were built in occupied Poland to systematically kill people who were gassed and their bodies burned in crematoria.
- One soldier was gassed by him when he attacked them.
- We went on to discuss whether MSPs regarded country people as ‘fair game to bash’, along with the relative welfare aspects of hunting foxes over shooting or gassing them.
- That would leave unaccounted for 3,000 kilos, which he contended would have been more than enough to kill the 250,000 people estimated to have been gassed to death that year.
- The latter were sent to special institutions at Grafeneck, Hadamar, Bernburg, Brandenburg, Sonnenstein, and Hartheim where they were gassed.
- Oh, you mean that awful thing in the second World War where they gassed and killed all the people in one area?
- A father who gassed himself and his four young sons in a horrific murder-suicide was a devoted dad whose children ‘were his life’, according to shocked neighbours.
Synonyms
execute, hang, send to the gallows, send to the gibbet, behead, guillotine, decapitate, electrocute, send to the electric chair, send to the chair, shoot, put before a firing squad, send to the gas chamber, gas, crucify, stone, stone to death
1. 1.1no object (of a storage battery or dry cell) give off gas.
  （蓄电池，干电池）放出气体
  the maintenance-free charger controls the input without inducing gassing
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is however possible to compress the cell packs subsequent to their formation and prior to inserting them into their final container to expel at least a proportion of their electrolyte which will reduce the amount of electrolyte which needs to be gassed off in the finished cells.
2informal no object Talk excessively about trivial matters.
I thought you'd never stop gassing
我看你总在吹牛。
Example sentencesExamples
- And LA Weekly opined that ‘Lopez and Affleck try not to smile at each other while gassing on and on until you're praying, dear God, please make them shut up and do it so we can all go home in peace’.
- First, the idea that the acme of being civilised is lying around your dining table gassing about culture and politics in a nice city, while the slaves do the washing up.
- He gassed on about how much he'd been chatting with him lately, how the two men were looking forward to working hand in hand - never mind his rhetoric about demolishing Albanys culture of dysfunction.
- Elsewhere, Ofcom's Communications Market 2004 report found that people are spending loads more time online, oodles more time gassing on their mobile phones but only a smidgen more watching TV.
Synonyms
talk, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, speak, converse, have a conversation, engage in conversation, tittle-tattle, prattle, jabber, jibber-jabber, babble, prate, go on, run on
3North American informal Fill the tank of (a motor vehicle) with petrol.
〈北美，非正式〉（将汽车油箱）加满汽油
after gassing up the car, he went into the restaurant
他给汽车加油之后就去了饭店。
Example sentencesExamples
- He finished gassing up, hung up the hose, then came over to where I was standing and got right in my face.
- We stopped by the convenience store to gas up the car and get a soda.
- Bill finished gassing up his car and went to pay.
- After gassing up the car, I thought to myself how fortunate I was to have bought a Super Soaker.
- Pack your bags, gas the car and thank the voice in your heart for speaking up.
- They can gas my car and change four tires in less then fourteen seconds during a pit stop.
- Surprise her one day by washing, vacuuming, and gassing up her car.
- Florida residents in the path of the hurricane tonight are boarding up their homes and businesses, gassing up their cars, and hitting the highway.
- He left the home on a 15-minute pass to go to the store, passed a gas station, and saw a van being gassed up.
- Their rapidly building fight peaks when he passes on gassing up, leaving them stranded roadside.
- Tess went into the convenience store to pay as Michael gassed the car.
- Could it be that the cost of gassing up the Subaru Outback has priced this woman out of her weekly trip to Whole Foods?
- Make time to pick up food on the way out of town or when you stop to gas up.
- You've got to gas up the car and put air in the tires.
- How exactly do we justify over-taxing struggling families with children to keep gassing up the Winnebagos of over-rewarded elders?
- Don't overlook ordinary moments either: sitting in a sidewalk café, gassing up the car, or just dozing by the hotel pool.
- The left tank was for gassing up the lawnmower, cars, and pickups and the right tank was for fueling the grain truck, the haystack movers, and anything John Deere green.
- At one of the pumps, an unshaved man in racing clothes was gassing up his motorcycle.
- The family finished gassing up, pulled out of the station - and less than two blocks away, they passed the local Catholic church.
- Even though his car was gassed, his things were packed, and he had his girl ready and waiting, he still had much to do.

adjective ɡas

Irish informal

Very amusing or entertaining.
〈爱尔兰，非正式〉非常有趣的；逗乐的
Ruthie, that's gas—you're a gem
露茜，太有趣了——你真了不起。
Example sentencesExamples
- That sounds gas that the two of them are chattering and getting on so well.

Phrases

be cooking with gas

informal Make good progress in a task.
once your leaders understand what you want, you're cooking with gas
Example sentencesExamples
- In terms of the economy we are cooking with gas.
- Add a small bowl of Greek black olives and you're cooking with gas.
- Have to say, whoever the strength and conditioning coach is, they're cooking with gas.
- Today I installed a USB 2 card—now I'm cooking with gas.
- He is really cooking with gas after scooping the Student of the Year award.

run out of gas

informal Run out of energy; lose momentum.
〈北美，非正式〉没有能量；缺少动力
as a humorist he ran out of gas years ago
Example sentencesExamples
- The season-spanning cliffhanger finally runs out of gas in this wrap-up to the Season 6 finale.
- The reason I say that is because Pete was getting a lot of key hits and I thought maybe he was running out of gas.
- He, who tied a record with 30 sets spanning 20 hours in seven matches last year, is trying to conserve energy this time after running out of gas in the 2004 final against Roger.
- Now that the yield curve has ‘lost its curve’, this profit engine has run out of gas.
- The pop craze over the Kabbalah Centre may have passed and despite the group's energy drink, it may be running out of gas.
- And then his campaign ran out of gas - out of money, out of time, out of campaign workers, volunteers, bumper stickers, you name it.
- Most people who fail wind up failing just because they just run out of gas.
- Like the millions of Americans who were stuck lined up at the pumps in 1977, after dropping Blue Moves, his first dud in seven years, he was also running out of gas.
- It briefly picks it up near the home stretch, but runs out of gas by the end, which will probably leave you wanting more.
- They either had to introduce an endless string of home-run new products that didn't require big incentives to sell - an impossible goal - or they could keep asking their suppliers for more price cuts, a strategy that is running out of gas.

Origin

Mid 17th century: invented by J. B. van Helmont (1577–1644), Belgian chemist, to denote an occult principle which he believed to exist in all matter; suggested by Greek khaos 'chaos', with Dutch g representing Greek kh.

Gas is an invented word, coined in the 17th century by the Belgian chemist and physician Joannes Baptista van Helmont (1577–1644), who was the first scientist to realize that there are gases other than air, and who discovered carbon dioxide. Van Helmont based the word on Greek khaos, chaos. It did not really catch on until the 19th century, with earlier scientists like Robert Boyle preferring to think of gases as different types of air. Gas for lighting or heating purposes dates from the late 18th century. The first experiments using coal-gas for lighting are said to have been made by the rector of Crofton, Dr Clayton, in about 1688; gas-lighting in its practical application was due to William Murdock (1754–1839).

Rhymes

alas, Alsace, amass, Bass, chasse, crass, crevasse, en masse, Hamas, lass, mass, morass, sass, tarantass, tass, wrasse

Definition of gas in US English:

gas

nounɡæsɡas

1A substance or matter in a state in which it will expand freely to fill the whole of a container, having no fixed shape (unlike a solid) and no fixed volume (unlike a liquid)
hot balls of gas that become stars
演变成恒星的热气团。
count noun poisonous gases
有毒气体。
Example sentencesExamples
- The spherical wavefront of expanding gasses and space debris burst past the Aspiration, rocking the vehicle even through the shielding.
- Sea turtle lungs are adapted to permit a rapid exchange of oxygen and to prevent the formation of gasses during deep dives.
- All these gasses emitted in the atmosphere MAY act as a shield, and hold in the heat.
- These gasses are heavier than air and offer better insulation.
- I combined all the ingredients and I tied off the bag leaving plenty of room for the gasses to expand into.
- As part of the project, pupils at the three Kerry schools will work to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses produced by their schools.
- The treaty gives industrialized nations eight years to cut their collective emissions of six key greenhouse gasses.
- Due to its electric drive, it is completely independent from the turbocharger and the thermal energy of the exhaust gasses.
- More than likely you will see a straight line cut into it from hot gasses escaping from the barrel/cylinder gap.
- Burning rubbish - plastics, treated wood, and old chemical containers release poisonous gasses when they are burnt.
- They have the ability to ‘breath’ or exchange gasses through the skin as well as the lungs.
- Boyle's Law is a statement of the relationship between the pressure and volume of gasses.
- Greenhouse gasses are in Earth's atmosphere and warm the planet.
- He looked over his shoulder at the source of the transmission, only to see a rapidly expanding ball of gasses and wreckage.
- Increases in temperatures and greenhouse gasses have been even sharper since the 1950s.
- The £1.7 million car emits no carbon dioxide or other gasses, and the water that dribbles out of the exhaust pipe is so clean you can drink it.
- Chris had his committed cluster hunters searched for X-rays, the telltale signs of the incredibly hot gasses in a galaxy cluster.
- It's difficult to separate natural variability from greenhouse gasses.
- The hydrogen either will be absorbed in soils or react with other gasses in the atmosphere.
- Because the atmosphere includes greenhouse gasses, solar warming and greenhouse warming are related.
Synonyms
discussion, talk, chat, gossip, tête-à-tête, heart-to-heart, head-to-head, exchange, dialogue, parley, consultation, conference
1. 1.1Physics A gaseous substance that cannot be liquefied by the application of pressure alone.
  〔物理〕仅靠压力无法液化的气体物质。比较VAPOUR
  Compare with vapor
  Example sentencesExamples
  The resulting ester was saponified under basic conditions to the free acid, converted to the acyl chloride with thionyl chloride, and then to the amide with anhydrous ammonia gas.
  The simplest sources are hydrogen-rich compounds like hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide gas and hydrocarbons.
  Carbon dioxide gas is heavier than oxygen, so it displaces the oxygen surrounding the burning fuel.
  Nitrogen dioxide is a brown gas, transformed from nitric oxide contained in emissions.
  Free oxygen was released when ultraviolet light hit carbon monoxide gas.
  Synonyms
  chat, talk, conversation, chatter, heart-to-heart, tête-à-tête, powwow, blether, blather
2. 1.2 A flammable gas used as a fuel.
  可燃气体，气体燃料
  Example sentencesExamples
  The country is relatively rich in mineral resources but, unlike Russia, is underendowed in fuels such as gas, oil, and coal.
  Along with other fossil fuels like coal and gas.
  Another cylinder of gas is required to fuel the single ring burner used to boil the kettle.
  Furthermore, the availability of a major source of gas in south-west Wales could potentially attract other industries which need gas as a fuel.
  The booming economy is also enticing new industries into the country and encouraging existing businesses to expand, fuelling further demands for gas.
  The price of food items sold at hotels has already jumped by 15 to 25 percent and the cost of commodities produced by factories using gas as a fuel will be affected.
  It's like the difference between rocket fuel and cheap gas.
  Hydrogen can either be generated by wind or solar energy, or by using fossil fuels such as gas.
  As mentioned before, water can wind up in your gas or diesel fuel as a result of condensation in the tank.
  Most were put in a pile, doused with gas and fuel oil, and set afire.
  We can go on to by-products of petroleum such as plastics and with gas as fuel we can do aluminium products with bauxite from Guyana and Jamaica.
  The engines are fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, which means that there is no risk of a fire breaking out.
  So in the House today, the Greens are advocating, for some reason, the burning of fossil fuels - gas in Auckland and diesel along with wind generation.
  Mother Nature's fossil fuels, oil and gas are running out fast and if we do not wish to be held to ransom by imported energy our representatives must act now.
  Cheaper gas and fuel will give households more money to spend on other items.
  The tax will apply to coal, gas, petrol, diesel and other fuels.
  Gas and diesel convergence: to fend off fuel cells, gas and diesel engine experts are swapping efficiency secrets
  We have to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, so we need more wind farms to produce cleaner electricity.
  It needs expensive or scarce fuel, such as gas or wood, to heat it and experience to run it.
  It can be used as a fuel in power stations to generate electricity or heat as an environmental alternative to burning fossil fuels such as gas, coal and oil.
3. 1.3 A gaseous anesthetic such as nitrous oxide, used in dentistry.
  麻醉气（如用于牙科的氧化亚氮）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Two other reports exist of nitrous oxide anaesthesia being used in patients with intraocular gas in a closed eye.
  He compared being so short of hand towels to running out of anaesthetic gas during an operation.
  This form of anesthesia was easily controlled by stopping the gas, and the patient would revive quickly.
  The condor was put under anaesthetic gas for the 20 minute procedure - carried out by zoo vet Brash in Flamingo Land's own clinic a fortnight ago.
  The gas used for anaesthetic purposes is a mixture of 80 per cent nitrous oxide and 20 per cent oxygen.
  Nowadays, general anaesthesia is seldom administered via a mask and anaesthetic gas or vapour.
4. 1.4 Gas or vapor used as a poisonous agent in warfare.
  （战争中使敌人丧生或致残的）毒气
  gas was one of the most dreaded weapons of the war
  Example sentencesExamples
  According to radio reports military police used pepper gas spray to overpower him, but that could not be officially confirmed.
  Whether or not gas will be employed in future wars is a matter of conjecture.
  Videos from his collection, showing dogs being killed by poisonous gas or a nerve agent, were recently aired on CNN.
  In 1992, 43 tons of chlorine gas were released in Henderson, Nevada, causing distress to hundreds of people.
  The use of the gas in warfare is banned under international chemical weapons treaties.
  He made a specialty of chemical and gas warfare and minefields and his war caused a million deaths.
  This year is the 90th anniversary of the invention of modern gas warfare.
  The name was a hangover from the First World War, when the larger mortars were employed to lay down smoke or gas.
  In one case, military police sprayed pepper gas on a group of university students to stop them from singing while waiting to be removed from the Navy base.
  CS gas grenades were originally made like smoke grenades, with the CS irritant being emitted through apertures in the top.
  If there is a gas or nerve agent attack and you are not wearing a full NBC suit, a suitable respirator or immediate access to a nerve agent antidote injection, you will die.
  Instantaneous fuses and gas or smoke shells made possible heavy and lethal barrages that did not make ground impassable to assaulting infantry.
  Think of the urine soaked handkerchiefs used by Canadian soldiers in The Great War to repel the effects of German poison gases.
  Machine-guns, gas, high explosives, flame-throwers and air attacks slaughtered the lines of men marching out of the trenches.
  Synonyms
  fumes, exhaust, vapour
5. 1.5North American Gas generated in the alimentary canal; flatulence.
  〈主北美〉胃气，肠气;
  Example sentencesExamples
  An increase in abdominal gas may be due to three complications.
  The most commonly reported side effects are gas, constipation, stomach pain, and indigestion.
  This is especially true if you have had a procedure that typically leads to a large amount of intestinal gas, such as a colonoscopy with polypectomy.
  This slows down your digestion and can cause gas to build up.
  A colicky baby more likely has gas because of the colic.
  However, although painful abdominal gas may contribute to colic, there is little evidence to prove it's due to gastrointestinal problems.
  This almost involuntary practice relieves the symptom but it also produces gas and bloating.
  Oral cholecystography is used when patients are obese and have a large amount of overlying bowel gas which makes ultrasonography more difficult.
  Digestion of beans and other complex carbohydrates requires gas-producing bacteria, leading to increased gas.
  Supine and upright abdominal radiographs with stepladder pattern of air-fluid levels and no colonic gas are suggestive of obstruction.
  Dosing is limited by gastrointestinal side effects of gas, bloating, and constipation.
  Some people get a lot of gas from foods that don't bother others.
  Notably, the peritoneal cavity was dry and was not distended with gas.
  Intestinal gas is typically caused by the fermentation of undigested food, such as plant fiber, in the colon.
  For general bloating and gas, over-the-counter products containing simethicone can help.
  A chest and abdominal film from the first day of life demonstrated the ectopia cordis and a paucity of bowel gas in the abdomen.
  You may feel bloated or have gas for a few hours after the exam.
  Her last bowel movement had occurred 3 days previously, and she had not passed any gas for more than 24 hours.
  In this patient you do see gas in the distal bowel.
  To avoid problems with gas, add high-fiber foods to your diet slowly.
  Synonyms
  intestinal gas, wind
6. 1.6Mining An explosive mixture of firedamp with air.
  〔矿〕瓦斯
  Example sentencesExamples
  To clear mines of gas - be it explosive or poisonous - a crude system of ventilation was used.
  Late in the afternoon, during the shift change, an explosion of methane gas, "firedamp," blasted deep in the underground workings.
2North American
short for gasoline
Example sentencesExamples
- We were stopping for gas beyond the edge of town and spotted some Arundo growing on a knoll behind the filling station.
- But we do know she encountered them in her attempt to stop and get gas.
- The Turkish move to stop buying gas altogether paid off and Iran finally agreed to decrease the prices.
- His father owns a roadside store, a popular stop for gas and takeout.
- But we guessed correctly, and turning lights on, stopping only for gas, drove east.
- The Jeep started to tip backward and he gave it more gas which caused it to flip over.
- She drove, making two stops for gas on the way home to Sager's Creek.
- Now I know it's surprising to see a different gas price every time you stop at a Texonobil.
- Sometimes Bud stops to get gas, and this always feels like a momentous occasion.
- When I stopped for gas, it wasn't uncommon for me to grab a bag of chips, a soda and some candy, too.
- We were waiting on a retro pick-up and stopped for gas aboard a nearby ship.
- Sure, we made a couple stops for gas, food, and nature calls, but I really didn't expect to get here so late.
- I had to stop in Jamestown for gas and that is where I realized I didn't have my house keys.
- On the way home, we stopped for some gas and lottery tickets.
- We stopped for gas on the way home and were parking in front of her house when she turned to relate what I've come to think of as the quintessential Lisa story.
- When the team stopped for gas, their vans were filled up with unleaded instead of diesel gasoline.
- Before a trip out of town, I stopped for gas at the Shell station on Angell Street.
- We stopped for gas at Stovepipe Wells, a minimal town boasting an elevation of five feet above sea level, and a mandatory T-shirt purchase location.
- Those gas prices are not stopping tens of thousands of travelers from hitting the roadways around Chicago tonight after a winter storm hit the Windy City today.
- So the manager says if the price of gas goes above that, he's going to have to stop selling gas.
1. 2.1 Used in reference to power or the accelerator of an automobile.
  I ordered my friend to step on the gas
  Example sentencesExamples
  Wellings was three over through the first three holes and five over at the turn, but stepped on the gas on the back nine to close with a spectacular three-under 33 to finish at 74.
  His ‘Baby Boy’ discovery, Tyrese, steps on the gas and leaves former star Diesel in the dust.
  He stepped on the gas and the rear end of his car first swerved gently to the right, and then to the left.
  But there also are consequences for signaling to criminals that they can escape by just stepping on the gas.
  As soon as she was out of the car, Ray stepped on the gas and shot forward, trying to run over my grandmother.
  The victim reported that she placed her vehicle in reverse and ducked down as she stepped on the gas swerving back and forth out of the immediate intersection.
3a gasinformal A person or thing that is entertaining or amusing.
〈非正式〉令人愉快的人（或事）
the party would be a gas
这个聚会会很好玩的。
Example sentencesExamples
- We both thought it a bit crazy at the time, and we also thought it would be a gas.
- Since then, it's been a rather gentle decline, although many in the UK during the 80s and 90s still thought I was a gas.
Synonyms
laugh
wit, hoot, comedian, comic, entertainer, joker, clown, buffoon

verbɡæsɡas

[with object]

1Kill or harm by exposure to poisonous gas.
用（毒气）毒死
Example sentencesExamples
- So the first prisoners to be gassed are transported back to the ‘old Reich’ in Germany to be murdered.
- In other words, it cannot gas enemy soldiers, but it reserves the right to gas prisoners and civilians!
- That would leave unaccounted for 3,000 kilos, which he contended would have been more than enough to kill the 250,000 people estimated to have been gassed to death that year.
- They are in Britain because their families were gassed and murdered by his regime.
- The latter were sent to special institutions at Grafeneck, Hadamar, Bernburg, Brandenburg, Sonnenstein, and Hartheim where they were gassed.
- When animals are killed on fur farms they are gassed or beaten and many of them are alive when they are skinned.
- His tens of thousands of victims were often gassed or shot in the back of the head or tortured to death, but I have not heard that they were photographed in their t-shirts.
- As one character says here, with desperate weariness: ‘We electrocuted him, gassed him, put him in front of a firing squad.’
- But it's only at the end of the film that we learn what appears to have really happened: it is he himself who killed his mother, gassing her whilst apparently suffering from a delusion that she is another person.
- How would he feel if his father had been gassed, shot or hung in Auschwitz or Dachau, instead of his luckier fate, enjoying a good, long life hurling insults at others?
- A father who gassed himself and his four young sons in a horrific murder-suicide was a devoted dad whose children ‘were his life’, according to shocked neighbours.
- Six death camps were built in occupied Poland to systematically kill people who were gassed and their bodies burned in crematoria.
- There were camps built to exterminate them; most were gassed, but some were shot, drowned, or starved to death.
- Yesterday journalists returned to the theatre to see the women once again, only this time they were sitting in the plush red seats of the stalls where they had been apparently gassed and then shot dead.
- We went on to discuss whether MSPs regarded country people as ‘fair game to bash’, along with the relative welfare aspects of hunting foxes over shooting or gassing them.
- After the uprising, 7,000 people were gassed in extermination camps, while 30,000 were shot there.
- It is the most humane method as opposed to shooting or gassing the fox.
- One soldier was gassed by him when he attacked them.
- Oh, you mean that awful thing in the second World War where they gassed and killed all the people in one area?
- She had to listen helplessly for an hour as her sons were gassed in the back of a car by her estranged husband.
Synonyms
execute, hang, send to the gallows, send to the gibbet, behead, guillotine, decapitate, electrocute, send to the electric chair, send to the chair, shoot, put before a firing squad, send to the gas chamber, gas, crucify, stone, stone to death
1. 1.1no object (of a storage battery or dry cell) give off gas.
  （蓄电池，干电池）放出气体
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is however possible to compress the cell packs subsequent to their formation and prior to inserting them into their final container to expel at least a proportion of their electrolyte which will reduce the amount of electrolyte which needs to be gassed off in the finished cells.
2informal no object Talk, especially excessively, idly, or boastfully.
〈非正式〉啰嗦，闲谈；吹牛
I thought you'd never stop gassing
我看你总在吹牛。
Example sentencesExamples
- First, the idea that the acme of being civilised is lying around your dining table gassing about culture and politics in a nice city, while the slaves do the washing up.
- And LA Weekly opined that ‘Lopez and Affleck try not to smile at each other while gassing on and on until you're praying, dear God, please make them shut up and do it so we can all go home in peace’.
- He gassed on about how much he'd been chatting with him lately, how the two men were looking forward to working hand in hand - never mind his rhetoric about demolishing Albanys culture of dysfunction.
- Elsewhere, Ofcom's Communications Market 2004 report found that people are spending loads more time online, oodles more time gassing on their mobile phones but only a smidgen more watching TV.
Synonyms
talk, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, speak, converse, have a conversation, engage in conversation, tittle-tattle, prattle, jabber, jibber-jabber, babble, prate, go on, run on
3North American informal Fill the tank of (an engine or motor vehicle) with gasoline.
〈北美，非正式〉（将汽车油箱）加满汽油
after gassing up the car, he went into the restaurant
他给汽车加油之后就去了饭店。
Example sentencesExamples
- Even though his car was gassed, his things were packed, and he had his girl ready and waiting, he still had much to do.
- He finished gassing up, hung up the hose, then came over to where I was standing and got right in my face.
- The family finished gassing up, pulled out of the station - and less than two blocks away, they passed the local Catholic church.
- Make time to pick up food on the way out of town or when you stop to gas up.
- Could it be that the cost of gassing up the Subaru Outback has priced this woman out of her weekly trip to Whole Foods?
- Bill finished gassing up his car and went to pay.
- Florida residents in the path of the hurricane tonight are boarding up their homes and businesses, gassing up their cars, and hitting the highway.
- After gassing up the car, I thought to myself how fortunate I was to have bought a Super Soaker.
- Don't overlook ordinary moments either: sitting in a sidewalk café, gassing up the car, or just dozing by the hotel pool.
- Their rapidly building fight peaks when he passes on gassing up, leaving them stranded roadside.
- We stopped by the convenience store to gas up the car and get a soda.
- Tess went into the convenience store to pay as Michael gassed the car.
- How exactly do we justify over-taxing struggling families with children to keep gassing up the Winnebagos of over-rewarded elders?
- He left the home on a 15-minute pass to go to the store, passed a gas station, and saw a van being gassed up.
- You've got to gas up the car and put air in the tires.
- At one of the pumps, an unshaved man in racing clothes was gassing up his motorcycle.
- Pack your bags, gas the car and thank the voice in your heart for speaking up.
- The left tank was for gassing up the lawnmower, cars, and pickups and the right tank was for fueling the grain truck, the haystack movers, and anything John Deere green.
- They can gas my car and change four tires in less then fourteen seconds during a pit stop.
- Surprise her one day by washing, vacuuming, and gassing up her car.

Phrases

run out of gas

informal Run out of energy; lose momentum.
〈北美，非正式〉没有能量；缺少动力
as a humorist he ran out of gas years ago
Example sentencesExamples
- Most people who fail wind up failing just because they just run out of gas.
- He, who tied a record with 30 sets spanning 20 hours in seven matches last year, is trying to conserve energy this time after running out of gas in the 2004 final against Roger.
- And then his campaign ran out of gas - out of money, out of time, out of campaign workers, volunteers, bumper stickers, you name it.
- Now that the yield curve has ‘lost its curve’, this profit engine has run out of gas.
- It briefly picks it up near the home stretch, but runs out of gas by the end, which will probably leave you wanting more.
- The reason I say that is because Pete was getting a lot of key hits and I thought maybe he was running out of gas.
- Like the millions of Americans who were stuck lined up at the pumps in 1977, after dropping Blue Moves, his first dud in seven years, he was also running out of gas.
- The season-spanning cliffhanger finally runs out of gas in this wrap-up to the Season 6 finale.
- The pop craze over the Kabbalah Centre may have passed and despite the group's energy drink, it may be running out of gas.
- They either had to introduce an endless string of home-run new products that didn't require big incentives to sell - an impossible goal - or they could keep asking their suppliers for more price cuts, a strategy that is running out of gas.

Origin

Mid 17th century: invented by J. B. van Helmont (1577–1644), Belgian chemist, to denote an occult principle which he believed to exist in all matter; suggested by Greek khaos ‘chaos’, with Dutch g representing Greek kh.

单词	gas
释义	Definition of gas in English: gas nounPlural gases, Plural gasses ɡasɡæs mass noun 1A substance or matter in a state in which it will expand freely to fill the whole of a container, having no fixed shape (unlike a solid) and no fixed volume (unlike a liquid) hot balls of gas that become stars 演变成恒星的热气团。 count noun poisonous gases 有毒气体。 Example sentencesExamples All these gasses emitted in the atmosphere MAY act as a shield, and hold in the heat. More than likely you will see a straight line cut into it from hot gasses escaping from the barrel/cylinder gap. As part of the project, pupils at the three Kerry schools will work to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses produced by their schools. The treaty gives industrialized nations eight years to cut their collective emissions of six key greenhouse gasses. The hydrogen either will be absorbed in soils or react with other gasses in the atmosphere. He looked over his shoulder at the source of the transmission, only to see a rapidly expanding ball of gasses and wreckage. Because the atmosphere includes greenhouse gasses, solar warming and greenhouse warming are related. Sea turtle lungs are adapted to permit a rapid exchange of oxygen and to prevent the formation of gasses during deep dives. Burning rubbish - plastics, treated wood, and old chemical containers release poisonous gasses when they are burnt. Chris had his committed cluster hunters searched for X-rays, the telltale signs of the incredibly hot gasses in a galaxy cluster. They have the ability to ‘breath’ or exchange gasses through the skin as well as the lungs. These gasses are heavier than air and offer better insulation. The £1.7 million car emits no carbon dioxide or other gasses, and the water that dribbles out of the exhaust pipe is so clean you can drink it. The spherical wavefront of expanding gasses and space debris burst past the Aspiration, rocking the vehicle even through the shielding. Due to its electric drive, it is completely independent from the turbocharger and the thermal energy of the exhaust gasses. Greenhouse gasses are in Earth's atmosphere and warm the planet. It's difficult to separate natural variability from greenhouse gasses. I combined all the ingredients and I tied off the bag leaving plenty of room for the gasses to expand into. Boyle's Law is a statement of the relationship between the pressure and volume of gasses. Increases in temperatures and greenhouse gasses have been even sharper since the 1950s. Synonyms discussion, talk, chat, gossip, tête-à-tête, heart-to-heart, head-to-head, exchange, dialogue, parley, consultation, conference 1.1Physics A gaseous substance that cannot be liquefied by the application of pressure alone. 〔物理〕仅靠压力无法液化的气体物质。比较VAPOUR Compare with vapour Example sentencesExamples Nitrogen dioxide is a brown gas, transformed from nitric oxide contained in emissions. Free oxygen was released when ultraviolet light hit carbon monoxide gas. The simplest sources are hydrogen-rich compounds like hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide gas and hydrocarbons. The resulting ester was saponified under basic conditions to the free acid, converted to the acyl chloride with thionyl chloride, and then to the amide with anhydrous ammonia gas. Carbon dioxide gas is heavier than oxygen, so it displaces the oxygen surrounding the burning fuel. Synonyms chat, talk, conversation, chatter, heart-to-heart, tête-à-tête, powwow, blether, blather 1.2 A flammable gas used as a fuel. 可燃气体，气体燃料 cooking is done by bottled gas Example sentencesExamples Furthermore, the availability of a major source of gas in south-west Wales could potentially attract other industries which need gas as a fuel. We can go on to by-products of petroleum such as plastics and with gas as fuel we can do aluminium products with bauxite from Guyana and Jamaica. The price of food items sold at hotels has already jumped by 15 to 25 percent and the cost of commodities produced by factories using gas as a fuel will be affected. It's like the difference between rocket fuel and cheap gas. Cheaper gas and fuel will give households more money to spend on other items. The engines are fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, which means that there is no risk of a fire breaking out. Gas and diesel convergence: to fend off fuel cells, gas and diesel engine experts are swapping efficiency secrets Most were put in a pile, doused with gas and fuel oil, and set afire. It needs expensive or scarce fuel, such as gas or wood, to heat it and experience to run it. It can be used as a fuel in power stations to generate electricity or heat as an environmental alternative to burning fossil fuels such as gas, coal and oil. Along with other fossil fuels like coal and gas. The booming economy is also enticing new industries into the country and encouraging existing businesses to expand, fuelling further demands for gas. As mentioned before, water can wind up in your gas or diesel fuel as a result of condensation in the tank. The tax will apply to coal, gas, petrol, diesel and other fuels. So in the House today, the Greens are advocating, for some reason, the burning of fossil fuels - gas in Auckland and diesel along with wind generation. Another cylinder of gas is required to fuel the single ring burner used to boil the kettle. We have to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, so we need more wind farms to produce cleaner electricity. Mother Nature's fossil fuels, oil and gas are running out fast and if we do not wish to be held to ransom by imported energy our representatives must act now. Hydrogen can either be generated by wind or solar energy, or by using fossil fuels such as gas. The country is relatively rich in mineral resources but, unlike Russia, is underendowed in fuels such as gas, oil, and coal. 1.3 A gaseous anaesthetic such as nitrous oxide, used in dentistry. 麻醉气（如用于牙科的氧化亚氮） Example sentencesExamples Nowadays, general anaesthesia is seldom administered via a mask and anaesthetic gas or vapour. The condor was put under anaesthetic gas for the 20 minute procedure - carried out by zoo vet Brash in Flamingo Land's own clinic a fortnight ago. This form of anesthesia was easily controlled by stopping the gas, and the patient would revive quickly. He compared being so short of hand towels to running out of anaesthetic gas during an operation. Two other reports exist of nitrous oxide anaesthesia being used in patients with intraocular gas in a closed eye. The gas used for anaesthetic purposes is a mixture of 80 per cent nitrous oxide and 20 per cent oxygen. 1.4 Gas or vapour used as a poisonous agent in warfare. （战争中使敌人丧生或致残的）毒气 gas was one of the most dreaded weapons of the war Example sentencesExamples The use of the gas in warfare is banned under international chemical weapons treaties. This year is the 90th anniversary of the invention of modern gas warfare. In one case, military police sprayed pepper gas on a group of university students to stop them from singing while waiting to be removed from the Navy base. Think of the urine soaked handkerchiefs used by Canadian soldiers in The Great War to repel the effects of German poison gases. If there is a gas or nerve agent attack and you are not wearing a full NBC suit, a suitable respirator or immediate access to a nerve agent antidote injection, you will die. He made a specialty of chemical and gas warfare and minefields and his war caused a million deaths. Videos from his collection, showing dogs being killed by poisonous gas or a nerve agent, were recently aired on CNN. The name was a hangover from the First World War, when the larger mortars were employed to lay down smoke or gas. Machine-guns, gas, high explosives, flame-throwers and air attacks slaughtered the lines of men marching out of the trenches. According to radio reports military police used pepper gas spray to overpower him, but that could not be officially confirmed. In 1992, 43 tons of chlorine gas were released in Henderson, Nevada, causing distress to hundreds of people. Whether or not gas will be employed in future wars is a matter of conjecture. CS gas grenades were originally made like smoke grenades, with the CS irritant being emitted through apertures in the top. Instantaneous fuses and gas or smoke shells made possible heavy and lethal barrages that did not make ground impassable to assaulting infantry. Synonyms fumes, exhaust, vapour 1.5North American Gas generated in the alimentary canal; flatulence. 〈主北美〉胃气，肠气; Example sentencesExamples Notably, the peritoneal cavity was dry and was not distended with gas. A colicky baby more likely has gas because of the colic. Oral cholecystography is used when patients are obese and have a large amount of overlying bowel gas which makes ultrasonography more difficult. You may feel bloated or have gas for a few hours after the exam. An increase in abdominal gas may be due to three complications. Dosing is limited by gastrointestinal side effects of gas, bloating, and constipation. Digestion of beans and other complex carbohydrates requires gas-producing bacteria, leading to increased gas. However, although painful abdominal gas may contribute to colic, there is little evidence to prove it's due to gastrointestinal problems. Some people get a lot of gas from foods that don't bother others. For general bloating and gas, over-the-counter products containing simethicone can help. A chest and abdominal film from the first day of life demonstrated the ectopia cordis and a paucity of bowel gas in the abdomen. In this patient you do see gas in the distal bowel. This is especially true if you have had a procedure that typically leads to a large amount of intestinal gas, such as a colonoscopy with polypectomy. This slows down your digestion and can cause gas to build up. Her last bowel movement had occurred 3 days previously, and she had not passed any gas for more than 24 hours. Intestinal gas is typically caused by the fermentation of undigested food, such as plant fiber, in the colon. To avoid problems with gas, add high-fiber foods to your diet slowly. This almost involuntary practice relieves the symptom but it also produces gas and bloating. Supine and upright abdominal radiographs with stepladder pattern of air-fluid levels and no colonic gas are suggestive of obstruction. The most commonly reported side effects are gas, constipation, stomach pain, and indigestion. Synonyms intestinal gas, wind 1.6Mining An explosive mixture of firedamp with air. 〔矿〕瓦斯 Example sentencesExamples To clear mines of gas - be it explosive or poisonous - a crude system of ventilation was used. Late in the afternoon, during the shift change, an explosion of methane gas, "firedamp," blasted deep in the underground workings. 2North American we stopped for gas short for gasoline Example sentencesExamples But we do know she encountered them in her attempt to stop and get gas. Sure, we made a couple stops for gas, food, and nature calls, but I really didn't expect to get here so late. She drove, making two stops for gas on the way home to Sager's Creek. I had to stop in Jamestown for gas and that is where I realized I didn't have my house keys. But we guessed correctly, and turning lights on, stopping only for gas, drove east. When I stopped for gas, it wasn't uncommon for me to grab a bag of chips, a soda and some candy, too. Sometimes Bud stops to get gas, and this always feels like a momentous occasion. We were stopping for gas beyond the edge of town and spotted some Arundo growing on a knoll behind the filling station. So the manager says if the price of gas goes above that, he's going to have to stop selling gas. We were waiting on a retro pick-up and stopped for gas aboard a nearby ship. When the team stopped for gas, their vans were filled up with unleaded instead of diesel gasoline. We stopped for gas on the way home and were parking in front of her house when she turned to relate what I've come to think of as the quintessential Lisa story. The Turkish move to stop buying gas altogether paid off and Iran finally agreed to decrease the prices. On the way home, we stopped for some gas and lottery tickets. Those gas prices are not stopping tens of thousands of travelers from hitting the roadways around Chicago tonight after a winter storm hit the Windy City today. The Jeep started to tip backward and he gave it more gas which caused it to flip over. His father owns a roadside store, a popular stop for gas and takeout. Now I know it's surprising to see a different gas price every time you stop at a Texonobil. We stopped for gas at Stovepipe Wells, a minimal town boasting an elevation of five feet above sea level, and a mandatory T-shirt purchase location. Before a trip out of town, I stopped for gas at the Shell station on Angell Street. 2.1 Used in reference to power or the accelerator of a car. I ordered my friend to step on the gas Example sentencesExamples The victim reported that she placed her vehicle in reverse and ducked down as she stepped on the gas swerving back and forth out of the immediate intersection. As soon as she was out of the car, Ray stepped on the gas and shot forward, trying to run over my grandmother. But there also are consequences for signaling to criminals that they can escape by just stepping on the gas. He stepped on the gas and the rear end of his car first swerved gently to the right, and then to the left. Wellings was three over through the first three holes and five over at the turn, but stepped on the gas on the back nine to close with a spectacular three-under 33 to finish at 74. His ‘Baby Boy’ discovery, Tyrese, steps on the gas and leaves former star Diesel in the dust. 3a gasinformal An entertaining or amusing person or situation. the party would be a gas 这个聚会会很好玩的。 Example sentencesExamples Since then, it's been a rather gentle decline, although many in the UK during the 80s and 90s still thought I was a gas. We both thought it a bit crazy at the time, and we also thought it would be a gas. Synonyms laugh wit, hoot, comedian, comic, entertainer, joker, clown, buffoon 3.1Irish mass noun Enjoyment, amusement, or fun. 〈爱尔兰〉快乐；娱乐；乐趣 it was great gas in the club last night 昨晚在俱乐部玩得太高兴了。 Example sentencesExamples It was great gas and he always ended up feeling glad that he lived in Ireland after he'd watch it. verbgases, gassed, gassing ɡasɡæs [with object] 1Kill or harm by exposure to gas. 用（毒气）毒死 my son was gassed at Verdun 我儿子在凡尔登受到毒气伤害。 Example sentencesExamples In other words, it cannot gas enemy soldiers, but it reserves the right to gas prisoners and civilians! When animals are killed on fur farms they are gassed or beaten and many of them are alive when they are skinned. How would he feel if his father had been gassed, shot or hung in Auschwitz or Dachau, instead of his luckier fate, enjoying a good, long life hurling insults at others? She had to listen helplessly for an hour as her sons were gassed in the back of a car by her estranged husband. His tens of thousands of victims were often gassed or shot in the back of the head or tortured to death, but I have not heard that they were photographed in their t-shirts. As one character says here, with desperate weariness: ‘We electrocuted him, gassed him, put him in front of a firing squad.’ So the first prisoners to be gassed are transported back to the ‘old Reich’ in Germany to be murdered. They are in Britain because their families were gassed and murdered by his regime. Yesterday journalists returned to the theatre to see the women once again, only this time they were sitting in the plush red seats of the stalls where they had been apparently gassed and then shot dead. After the uprising, 7,000 people were gassed in extermination camps, while 30,000 were shot there. It is the most humane method as opposed to shooting or gassing the fox. There were camps built to exterminate them; most were gassed, but some were shot, drowned, or starved to death. But it's only at the end of the film that we learn what appears to have really happened: it is he himself who killed his mother, gassing her whilst apparently suffering from a delusion that she is another person. Six death camps were built in occupied Poland to systematically kill people who were gassed and their bodies burned in crematoria. One soldier was gassed by him when he attacked them. We went on to discuss whether MSPs regarded country people as ‘fair game to bash’, along with the relative welfare aspects of hunting foxes over shooting or gassing them. That would leave unaccounted for 3,000 kilos, which he contended would have been more than enough to kill the 250,000 people estimated to have been gassed to death that year. The latter were sent to special institutions at Grafeneck, Hadamar, Bernburg, Brandenburg, Sonnenstein, and Hartheim where they were gassed. Oh, you mean that awful thing in the second World War where they gassed and killed all the people in one area? A father who gassed himself and his four young sons in a horrific murder-suicide was a devoted dad whose children ‘were his life’, according to shocked neighbours. Synonyms execute, hang, send to the gallows, send to the gibbet, behead, guillotine, decapitate, electrocute, send to the electric chair, send to the chair, shoot, put before a firing squad, send to the gas chamber, gas, crucify, stone, stone to death 1.1no object (of a storage battery or dry cell) give off gas. （蓄电池，干电池）放出气体 the maintenance-free charger controls the input without inducing gassing Example sentencesExamples It is however possible to compress the cell packs subsequent to their formation and prior to inserting them into their final container to expel at least a proportion of their electrolyte which will reduce the amount of electrolyte which needs to be gassed off in the finished cells. 2informal no object Talk excessively about trivial matters. I thought you'd never stop gassing 我看你总在吹牛。 Example sentencesExamples And LA Weekly opined that ‘Lopez and Affleck try not to smile at each other while gassing on and on until you're praying, dear God, please make them shut up and do it so we can all go home in peace’. First, the idea that the acme of being civilised is lying around your dining table gassing about culture and politics in a nice city, while the slaves do the washing up. He gassed on about how much he'd been chatting with him lately, how the two men were looking forward to working hand in hand - never mind his rhetoric about demolishing Albanys culture of dysfunction. Elsewhere, Ofcom's Communications Market 2004 report found that people are spending loads more time online, oodles more time gassing on their mobile phones but only a smidgen more watching TV. Synonyms talk, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, speak, converse, have a conversation, engage in conversation, tittle-tattle, prattle, jabber, jibber-jabber, babble, prate, go on, run on 3North American informal Fill the tank of (a motor vehicle) with petrol. 〈北美，非正式〉（将汽车油箱）加满汽油 after gassing up the car, he went into the restaurant 他给汽车加油之后就去了饭店。 Example sentencesExamples He finished gassing up, hung up the hose, then came over to where I was standing and got right in my face. We stopped by the convenience store to gas up the car and get a soda. Bill finished gassing up his car and went to pay. After gassing up the car, I thought to myself how fortunate I was to have bought a Super Soaker. Pack your bags, gas the car and thank the voice in your heart for speaking up. They can gas my car and change four tires in less then fourteen seconds during a pit stop. Surprise her one day by washing, vacuuming, and gassing up her car. Florida residents in the path of the hurricane tonight are boarding up their homes and businesses, gassing up their cars, and hitting the highway. He left the home on a 15-minute pass to go to the store, passed a gas station, and saw a van being gassed up. Their rapidly building fight peaks when he passes on gassing up, leaving them stranded roadside. Tess went into the convenience store to pay as Michael gassed the car. Could it be that the cost of gassing up the Subaru Outback has priced this woman out of her weekly trip to Whole Foods? Make time to pick up food on the way out of town or when you stop to gas up. You've got to gas up the car and put air in the tires. How exactly do we justify over-taxing struggling families with children to keep gassing up the Winnebagos of over-rewarded elders? Don't overlook ordinary moments either: sitting in a sidewalk café, gassing up the car, or just dozing by the hotel pool. The left tank was for gassing up the lawnmower, cars, and pickups and the right tank was for fueling the grain truck, the haystack movers, and anything John Deere green. At one of the pumps, an unshaved man in racing clothes was gassing up his motorcycle. The family finished gassing up, pulled out of the station - and less than two blocks away, they passed the local Catholic church. Even though his car was gassed, his things were packed, and he had his girl ready and waiting, he still had much to do. adjective ɡas Irish informal Very amusing or entertaining. 〈爱尔兰，非正式〉非常有趣的；逗乐的 Ruthie, that's gas—you're a gem 露茜，太有趣了——你真了不起。 Example sentencesExamples That sounds gas that the two of them are chattering and getting on so well. Phrases be cooking with gas informal Make good progress in a task. once your leaders understand what you want, you're cooking with gas Example sentencesExamples In terms of the economy we are cooking with gas. Add a small bowl of Greek black olives and you're cooking with gas. Have to say, whoever the strength and conditioning coach is, they're cooking with gas. Today I installed a USB 2 card—now I'm cooking with gas. He is really cooking with gas after scooping the Student of the Year award. run out of gas informal Run out of energy; lose momentum. 〈北美，非正式〉没有能量；缺少动力 as a humorist he ran out of gas years ago Example sentencesExamples The season-spanning cliffhanger finally runs out of gas in this wrap-up to the Season 6 finale. The reason I say that is because Pete was getting a lot of key hits and I thought maybe he was running out of gas. He, who tied a record with 30 sets spanning 20 hours in seven matches last year, is trying to conserve energy this time after running out of gas in the 2004 final against Roger. Now that the yield curve has ‘lost its curve’, this profit engine has run out of gas. The pop craze over the Kabbalah Centre may have passed and despite the group's energy drink, it may be running out of gas. And then his campaign ran out of gas - out of money, out of time, out of campaign workers, volunteers, bumper stickers, you name it. Most people who fail wind up failing just because they just run out of gas. Like the millions of Americans who were stuck lined up at the pumps in 1977, after dropping Blue Moves, his first dud in seven years, he was also running out of gas. It briefly picks it up near the home stretch, but runs out of gas by the end, which will probably leave you wanting more. They either had to introduce an endless string of home-run new products that didn't require big incentives to sell - an impossible goal - or they could keep asking their suppliers for more price cuts, a strategy that is running out of gas. Origin Mid 17th century: invented by J. B. van Helmont (1577–1644), Belgian chemist, to denote an occult principle which he believed to exist in all matter; suggested by Greek khaos 'chaos', with Dutch g representing Greek kh. Gas is an invented word, coined in the 17th century by the Belgian chemist and physician Joannes Baptista van Helmont (1577–1644), who was the first scientist to realize that there are gases other than air, and who discovered carbon dioxide. Van Helmont based the word on Greek khaos, chaos. It did not really catch on until the 19th century, with earlier scientists like Robert Boyle preferring to think of gases as different types of air. Gas for lighting or heating purposes dates from the late 18th century. The first experiments using coal-gas for lighting are said to have been made by the rector of Crofton, Dr Clayton, in about 1688; gas-lighting in its practical application was due to William Murdock (1754–1839). Rhymes alas, Alsace, amass, Bass, chasse, crass, crevasse, en masse, Hamas, lass, mass, morass, sass, tarantass, tass, wrasse noun.1 phr. Definition of gas in US English: gas nounɡæsɡas 1A substance or matter in a state in which it will expand freely to fill the whole of a container, having no fixed shape (unlike a solid) and no fixed volume (unlike a liquid) hot balls of gas that become stars 演变成恒星的热气团。 count noun poisonous gases 有毒气体。 Example sentencesExamples The spherical wavefront of expanding gasses and space debris burst past the Aspiration, rocking the vehicle even through the shielding. Sea turtle lungs are adapted to permit a rapid exchange of oxygen and to prevent the formation of gasses during deep dives. All these gasses emitted in the atmosphere MAY act as a shield, and hold in the heat. These gasses are heavier than air and offer better insulation. I combined all the ingredients and I tied off the bag leaving plenty of room for the gasses to expand into. As part of the project, pupils at the three Kerry schools will work to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses produced by their schools. The treaty gives industrialized nations eight years to cut their collective emissions of six key greenhouse gasses. Due to its electric drive, it is completely independent from the turbocharger and the thermal energy of the exhaust gasses. More than likely you will see a straight line cut into it from hot gasses escaping from the barrel/cylinder gap. Burning rubbish - plastics, treated wood, and old chemical containers release poisonous gasses when they are burnt. They have the ability to ‘breath’ or exchange gasses through the skin as well as the lungs. Boyle's Law is a statement of the relationship between the pressure and volume of gasses. Greenhouse gasses are in Earth's atmosphere and warm the planet. He looked over his shoulder at the source of the transmission, only to see a rapidly expanding ball of gasses and wreckage. Increases in temperatures and greenhouse gasses have been even sharper since the 1950s. The £1.7 million car emits no carbon dioxide or other gasses, and the water that dribbles out of the exhaust pipe is so clean you can drink it. Chris had his committed cluster hunters searched for X-rays, the telltale signs of the incredibly hot gasses in a galaxy cluster. It's difficult to separate natural variability from greenhouse gasses. The hydrogen either will be absorbed in soils or react with other gasses in the atmosphere. Because the atmosphere includes greenhouse gasses, solar warming and greenhouse warming are related. Synonyms discussion, talk, chat, gossip, tête-à-tête, heart-to-heart, head-to-head, exchange, dialogue, parley, consultation, conference 1.1Physics A gaseous substance that cannot be liquefied by the application of pressure alone. 〔物理〕仅靠压力无法液化的气体物质。比较VAPOUR Compare with vapor Example sentencesExamples The resulting ester was saponified under basic conditions to the free acid, converted to the acyl chloride with thionyl chloride, and then to the amide with anhydrous ammonia gas. The simplest sources are hydrogen-rich compounds like hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide gas and hydrocarbons. Carbon dioxide gas is heavier than oxygen, so it displaces the oxygen surrounding the burning fuel. Nitrogen dioxide is a brown gas, transformed from nitric oxide contained in emissions. Free oxygen was released when ultraviolet light hit carbon monoxide gas. Synonyms chat, talk, conversation, chatter, heart-to-heart, tête-à-tête, powwow, blether, blather 1.2 A flammable gas used as a fuel. 可燃气体，气体燃料 Example sentencesExamples The country is relatively rich in mineral resources but, unlike Russia, is underendowed in fuels such as gas, oil, and coal. Along with other fossil fuels like coal and gas. Another cylinder of gas is required to fuel the single ring burner used to boil the kettle. Furthermore, the availability of a major source of gas in south-west Wales could potentially attract other industries which need gas as a fuel. The booming economy is also enticing new industries into the country and encouraging existing businesses to expand, fuelling further demands for gas. The price of food items sold at hotels has already jumped by 15 to 25 percent and the cost of commodities produced by factories using gas as a fuel will be affected. It's like the difference between rocket fuel and cheap gas. Hydrogen can either be generated by wind or solar energy, or by using fossil fuels such as gas. As mentioned before, water can wind up in your gas or diesel fuel as a result of condensation in the tank. Most were put in a pile, doused with gas and fuel oil, and set afire. We can go on to by-products of petroleum such as plastics and with gas as fuel we can do aluminium products with bauxite from Guyana and Jamaica. The engines are fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, which means that there is no risk of a fire breaking out. So in the House today, the Greens are advocating, for some reason, the burning of fossil fuels - gas in Auckland and diesel along with wind generation. Mother Nature's fossil fuels, oil and gas are running out fast and if we do not wish to be held to ransom by imported energy our representatives must act now. Cheaper gas and fuel will give households more money to spend on other items. The tax will apply to coal, gas, petrol, diesel and other fuels. Gas and diesel convergence: to fend off fuel cells, gas and diesel engine experts are swapping efficiency secrets We have to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, so we need more wind farms to produce cleaner electricity. It needs expensive or scarce fuel, such as gas or wood, to heat it and experience to run it. It can be used as a fuel in power stations to generate electricity or heat as an environmental alternative to burning fossil fuels such as gas, coal and oil. 1.3 A gaseous anesthetic such as nitrous oxide, used in dentistry. 麻醉气（如用于牙科的氧化亚氮） Example sentencesExamples Two other reports exist of nitrous oxide anaesthesia being used in patients with intraocular gas in a closed eye. He compared being so short of hand towels to running out of anaesthetic gas during an operation. This form of anesthesia was easily controlled by stopping the gas, and the patient would revive quickly. The condor was put under anaesthetic gas for the 20 minute procedure - carried out by zoo vet Brash in Flamingo Land's own clinic a fortnight ago. The gas used for anaesthetic purposes is a mixture of 80 per cent nitrous oxide and 20 per cent oxygen. Nowadays, general anaesthesia is seldom administered via a mask and anaesthetic gas or vapour. 1.4 Gas or vapor used as a poisonous agent in warfare. （战争中使敌人丧生或致残的）毒气 gas was one of the most dreaded weapons of the war Example sentencesExamples According to radio reports military police used pepper gas spray to overpower him, but that could not be officially confirmed. Whether or not gas will be employed in future wars is a matter of conjecture. Videos from his collection, showing dogs being killed by poisonous gas or a nerve agent, were recently aired on CNN. In 1992, 43 tons of chlorine gas were released in Henderson, Nevada, causing distress to hundreds of people. The use of the gas in warfare is banned under international chemical weapons treaties. He made a specialty of chemical and gas warfare and minefields and his war caused a million deaths. This year is the 90th anniversary of the invention of modern gas warfare. The name was a hangover from the First World War, when the larger mortars were employed to lay down smoke or gas. In one case, military police sprayed pepper gas on a group of university students to stop them from singing while waiting to be removed from the Navy base. CS gas grenades were originally made like smoke grenades, with the CS irritant being emitted through apertures in the top. If there is a gas or nerve agent attack and you are not wearing a full NBC suit, a suitable respirator or immediate access to a nerve agent antidote injection, you will die. Instantaneous fuses and gas or smoke shells made possible heavy and lethal barrages that did not make ground impassable to assaulting infantry. Think of the urine soaked handkerchiefs used by Canadian soldiers in The Great War to repel the effects of German poison gases. Machine-guns, gas, high explosives, flame-throwers and air attacks slaughtered the lines of men marching out of the trenches. Synonyms fumes, exhaust, vapour 1.5North American Gas generated in the alimentary canal; flatulence. 〈主北美〉胃气，肠气; Example sentencesExamples An increase in abdominal gas may be due to three complications. The most commonly reported side effects are gas, constipation, stomach pain, and indigestion. This is especially true if you have had a procedure that typically leads to a large amount of intestinal gas, such as a colonoscopy with polypectomy. This slows down your digestion and can cause gas to build up. A colicky baby more likely has gas because of the colic. However, although painful abdominal gas may contribute to colic, there is little evidence to prove it's due to gastrointestinal problems. This almost involuntary practice relieves the symptom but it also produces gas and bloating. Oral cholecystography is used when patients are obese and have a large amount of overlying bowel gas which makes ultrasonography more difficult. Digestion of beans and other complex carbohydrates requires gas-producing bacteria, leading to increased gas. Supine and upright abdominal radiographs with stepladder pattern of air-fluid levels and no colonic gas are suggestive of obstruction. Dosing is limited by gastrointestinal side effects of gas, bloating, and constipation. Some people get a lot of gas from foods that don't bother others. Notably, the peritoneal cavity was dry and was not distended with gas. Intestinal gas is typically caused by the fermentation of undigested food, such as plant fiber, in the colon. For general bloating and gas, over-the-counter products containing simethicone can help. A chest and abdominal film from the first day of life demonstrated the ectopia cordis and a paucity of bowel gas in the abdomen. You may feel bloated or have gas for a few hours after the exam. Her last bowel movement had occurred 3 days previously, and she had not passed any gas for more than 24 hours. In this patient you do see gas in the distal bowel. To avoid problems with gas, add high-fiber foods to your diet slowly. Synonyms intestinal gas, wind 1.6Mining An explosive mixture of firedamp with air. 〔矿〕瓦斯 Example sentencesExamples To clear mines of gas - be it explosive or poisonous - a crude system of ventilation was used. Late in the afternoon, during the shift change, an explosion of methane gas, "firedamp," blasted deep in the underground workings. 2North American short for gasoline Example sentencesExamples We were stopping for gas beyond the edge of town and spotted some Arundo growing on a knoll behind the filling station. But we do know she encountered them in her attempt to stop and get gas. The Turkish move to stop buying gas altogether paid off and Iran finally agreed to decrease the prices. His father owns a roadside store, a popular stop for gas and takeout. But we guessed correctly, and turning lights on, stopping only for gas, drove east. The Jeep started to tip backward and he gave it more gas which caused it to flip over. She drove, making two stops for gas on the way home to Sager's Creek. Now I know it's surprising to see a different gas price every time you stop at a Texonobil. Sometimes Bud stops to get gas, and this always feels like a momentous occasion. When I stopped for gas, it wasn't uncommon for me to grab a bag of chips, a soda and some candy, too. We were waiting on a retro pick-up and stopped for gas aboard a nearby ship. Sure, we made a couple stops for gas, food, and nature calls, but I really didn't expect to get here so late. I had to stop in Jamestown for gas and that is where I realized I didn't have my house keys. On the way home, we stopped for some gas and lottery tickets. We stopped for gas on the way home and were parking in front of her house when she turned to relate what I've come to think of as the quintessential Lisa story. When the team stopped for gas, their vans were filled up with unleaded instead of diesel gasoline. Before a trip out of town, I stopped for gas at the Shell station on Angell Street. We stopped for gas at Stovepipe Wells, a minimal town boasting an elevation of five feet above sea level, and a mandatory T-shirt purchase location. Those gas prices are not stopping tens of thousands of travelers from hitting the roadways around Chicago tonight after a winter storm hit the Windy City today. So the manager says if the price of gas goes above that, he's going to have to stop selling gas. 2.1 Used in reference to power or the accelerator of an automobile. I ordered my friend to step on the gas Example sentencesExamples Wellings was three over through the first three holes and five over at the turn, but stepped on the gas on the back nine to close with a spectacular three-under 33 to finish at 74. His ‘Baby Boy’ discovery, Tyrese, steps on the gas and leaves former star Diesel in the dust. He stepped on the gas and the rear end of his car first swerved gently to the right, and then to the left. But there also are consequences for signaling to criminals that they can escape by just stepping on the gas. As soon as she was out of the car, Ray stepped on the gas and shot forward, trying to run over my grandmother. The victim reported that she placed her vehicle in reverse and ducked down as she stepped on the gas swerving back and forth out of the immediate intersection. 3a gasinformal A person or thing that is entertaining or amusing. 〈非正式〉令人愉快的人（或事） the party would be a gas 这个聚会会很好玩的。 Example sentencesExamples We both thought it a bit crazy at the time, and we also thought it would be a gas. Since then, it's been a rather gentle decline, although many in the UK during the 80s and 90s still thought I was a gas. Synonyms laugh wit, hoot, comedian, comic, entertainer, joker, clown, buffoon verbɡæsɡas [with object] 1Kill or harm by exposure to poisonous gas. 用（毒气）毒死 Example sentencesExamples So the first prisoners to be gassed are transported back to the ‘old Reich’ in Germany to be murdered. In other words, it cannot gas enemy soldiers, but it reserves the right to gas prisoners and civilians! That would leave unaccounted for 3,000 kilos, which he contended would have been more than enough to kill the 250,000 people estimated to have been gassed to death that year. They are in Britain because their families were gassed and murdered by his regime. The latter were sent to special institutions at Grafeneck, Hadamar, Bernburg, Brandenburg, Sonnenstein, and Hartheim where they were gassed. When animals are killed on fur farms they are gassed or beaten and many of them are alive when they are skinned. His tens of thousands of victims were often gassed or shot in the back of the head or tortured to death, but I have not heard that they were photographed in their t-shirts. As one character says here, with desperate weariness: ‘We electrocuted him, gassed him, put him in front of a firing squad.’ But it's only at the end of the film that we learn what appears to have really happened: it is he himself who killed his mother, gassing her whilst apparently suffering from a delusion that she is another person. How would he feel if his father had been gassed, shot or hung in Auschwitz or Dachau, instead of his luckier fate, enjoying a good, long life hurling insults at others? A father who gassed himself and his four young sons in a horrific murder-suicide was a devoted dad whose children ‘were his life’, according to shocked neighbours. Six death camps were built in occupied Poland to systematically kill people who were gassed and their bodies burned in crematoria. There were camps built to exterminate them; most were gassed, but some were shot, drowned, or starved to death. Yesterday journalists returned to the theatre to see the women once again, only this time they were sitting in the plush red seats of the stalls where they had been apparently gassed and then shot dead. We went on to discuss whether MSPs regarded country people as ‘fair game to bash’, along with the relative welfare aspects of hunting foxes over shooting or gassing them. After the uprising, 7,000 people were gassed in extermination camps, while 30,000 were shot there. It is the most humane method as opposed to shooting or gassing the fox. One soldier was gassed by him when he attacked them. Oh, you mean that awful thing in the second World War where they gassed and killed all the people in one area? She had to listen helplessly for an hour as her sons were gassed in the back of a car by her estranged husband. Synonyms execute, hang, send to the gallows, send to the gibbet, behead, guillotine, decapitate, electrocute, send to the electric chair, send to the chair, shoot, put before a firing squad, send to the gas chamber, gas, crucify, stone, stone to death 1.1no object (of a storage battery or dry cell) give off gas. （蓄电池，干电池）放出气体 Example sentencesExamples It is however possible to compress the cell packs subsequent to their formation and prior to inserting them into their final container to expel at least a proportion of their electrolyte which will reduce the amount of electrolyte which needs to be gassed off in the finished cells. 2informal no object Talk, especially excessively, idly, or boastfully. 〈非正式〉啰嗦，闲谈；吹牛 I thought you'd never stop gassing 我看你总在吹牛。 Example sentencesExamples First, the idea that the acme of being civilised is lying around your dining table gassing about culture and politics in a nice city, while the slaves do the washing up. And LA Weekly opined that ‘Lopez and Affleck try not to smile at each other while gassing on and on until you're praying, dear God, please make them shut up and do it so we can all go home in peace’. He gassed on about how much he'd been chatting with him lately, how the two men were looking forward to working hand in hand - never mind his rhetoric about demolishing Albanys culture of dysfunction. Elsewhere, Ofcom's Communications Market 2004 report found that people are spending loads more time online, oodles more time gassing on their mobile phones but only a smidgen more watching TV. Synonyms talk, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, speak, converse, have a conversation, engage in conversation, tittle-tattle, prattle, jabber, jibber-jabber, babble, prate, go on, run on 3North American informal Fill the tank of (an engine or motor vehicle) with gasoline. 〈北美，非正式〉（将汽车油箱）加满汽油 after gassing up the car, he went into the restaurant 他给汽车加油之后就去了饭店。 Example sentencesExamples Even though his car was gassed, his things were packed, and he had his girl ready and waiting, he still had much to do. He finished gassing up, hung up the hose, then came over to where I was standing and got right in my face. The family finished gassing up, pulled out of the station - and less than two blocks away, they passed the local Catholic church. Make time to pick up food on the way out of town or when you stop to gas up. Could it be that the cost of gassing up the Subaru Outback has priced this woman out of her weekly trip to Whole Foods? Bill finished gassing up his car and went to pay. Florida residents in the path of the hurricane tonight are boarding up their homes and businesses, gassing up their cars, and hitting the highway. After gassing up the car, I thought to myself how fortunate I was to have bought a Super Soaker. Don't overlook ordinary moments either: sitting in a sidewalk café, gassing up the car, or just dozing by the hotel pool. Their rapidly building fight peaks when he passes on gassing up, leaving them stranded roadside. We stopped by the convenience store to gas up the car and get a soda. Tess went into the convenience store to pay as Michael gassed the car. How exactly do we justify over-taxing struggling families with children to keep gassing up the Winnebagos of over-rewarded elders? He left the home on a 15-minute pass to go to the store, passed a gas station, and saw a van being gassed up. You've got to gas up the car and put air in the tires. At one of the pumps, an unshaved man in racing clothes was gassing up his motorcycle. Pack your bags, gas the car and thank the voice in your heart for speaking up. The left tank was for gassing up the lawnmower, cars, and pickups and the right tank was for fueling the grain truck, the haystack movers, and anything John Deere green. They can gas my car and change four tires in less then fourteen seconds during a pit stop. Surprise her one day by washing, vacuuming, and gassing up her car. Phrases run out of gas informal Run out of energy; lose momentum. 〈北美，非正式〉没有能量；缺少动力 as a humorist he ran out of gas years ago Example sentencesExamples Most people who fail wind up failing just because they just run out of gas. He, who tied a record with 30 sets spanning 20 hours in seven matches last year, is trying to conserve energy this time after running out of gas in the 2004 final against Roger. And then his campaign ran out of gas - out of money, out of time, out of campaign workers, volunteers, bumper stickers, you name it. Now that the yield curve has ‘lost its curve’, this profit engine has run out of gas. It briefly picks it up near the home stretch, but runs out of gas by the end, which will probably leave you wanting more. The reason I say that is because Pete was getting a lot of key hits and I thought maybe he was running out of gas. Like the millions of Americans who were stuck lined up at the pumps in 1977, after dropping Blue Moves, his first dud in seven years, he was also running out of gas. The season-spanning cliffhanger finally runs out of gas in this wrap-up to the Season 6 finale. The pop craze over the Kabbalah Centre may have passed and despite the group's energy drink, it may be running out of gas. They either had to introduce an endless string of home-run new products that didn't require big incentives to sell - an impossible goal - or they could keep asking their suppliers for more price cuts, a strategy that is running out of gas. Origin Mid 17th century: invented by J. B. van Helmont (1577–1644), Belgian chemist, to denote an occult principle which he believed to exist in all matter; suggested by Greek khaos ‘chaos’, with Dutch g representing Greek kh. noun.1 phr.
随便看	squelchier squelchiest squelchiest squelching squelchy squelchy squib squibals twisting twistings twist in the wind twist in the wind twist-lock twist off twist of fate twist one's arm twist one's face into twistor twist (or turn) the knife (in the wound) twist (or turn) the knife (in the wound) twist (or wind or wrap) someone around one's little finger twist (or wind or wrap) someone around one's little finger twist round twist round one's little finger twists