gas
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- noun
- /ɡæs/
- US
:
gasolina
- Sailor pulls off the road into a Gulf gas station mini-mart and stops the car.
- gas prices
Said she wanted to ban gas powered cars.
- Said she wanted to ban gas powered cars.
- I was just trying to pay for my gas and I got yelled at.
- So like the price of of gas has gone way down.
- And when you increase production, the price of gas goes back down some.
- In fact, Biden probably has more to do with base gas prices being up than down.
- But like when the gas prices went through the roof.
- It was like a fire gas tank, clown hands.
- This week we had panic buying of gas, chicken and dipping sauce.
- Let me start with the Putin price hike, high gas prices, and energy press.
- Food, milk, gas, housing, interest rates, all of it.
- These G word darn woke liberals driving up the gas prices.
Examples
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Simon, you said yourself you were sick of hiding in trees and dumpsters and taking pictures of celebrities pumping gas.
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Your parents ran out of gas at the wrong time.
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How much gas does he have left?
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How long did you work at the gas station?
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I'll drop you at the next gas station, alright?
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So we're getting some gas, then we're going to go to the mall.
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Other downtown businesses included a grocery store, two gas stations, three banks, and a coffee shop.
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I was just trying to pay for my gas and I got yelled at.
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Faye thinks she saw James at the gas station on the way out.
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I need to stop at the gas station to fill up the car with gas.
Synonyms
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A material burned to make energy for heat, light or engines
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A liquid people put in cars to make the engine run
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1.4
A liquid fuel that cars use in their engines
A liquid that can burn and is used as fuel for cars and machines
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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3.7
A gas that makes people's eyes burn and makes them cry, used by police to break up crowds
- Specialized
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4.5
A very large planet like Jupiter or Saturn made mostly of light gases that has no solid surface
- NSFW
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5.7
A harmful gas used as a weapon that can kill or make people very sick if they breathe it
- Specialized
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4.0
A gas with no color that dentists give to patients to breathe so they relax and sometimes laugh
- Specialized
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4.4
An engine that burns fuel to make hot gas that spins a wheel with blades
- Specialized
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3.3
A machine that burns natural gas to make power for vehicles or generators
- Specialized
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6.5
A device that fires small gas containers like tear gas to make crowds move away
- Specialized
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4.4
An imaginary gas made of tiny particles that take up no space and do not affect each other
- Offensive
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9.9
A very strong poison used as a weapon that attacks the nerves and can kill by touching skin or breathing
- Specialized
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7.0
A type of tear gas used by police that causes eye and skin pain and lasts long
- Specialized
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4.4
A device that sends gas through a small opening to make a steady flame for heat or light
- Specialized
Gas that comes out of a furnace when machines push air or steam through hot material
- Archaic
A colorless, odorless gas called carbon dioxide that plants use to make food
- Archaic
A gas produced by passing air over hot coal and used in the past for lighting and heating
- Specialized
A severe infection in body tissue caused by bacteria that makes gas and destroys it
- Specialized
A fixed number used in the ideal gas law to connect energy, temperature and amount of gas
- Specialized
A dangerous problem that happens when air bubbles get into the blood and stop blood flow
- Archaic
A protective mask that covers the whole head and filters harmful gases to keep lungs safe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gas for car fuel is a short form of gasoline, the name for a light fuel from oil; people quickly shortened gasoline to gas, so gas came to mean the petrol you put in cars. That's why Americans say 'fill up with gas'.