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gas(1) (iou)



gas noun1. . M17.
[Invented by J. B. van Helmont (1577-1644), Belgian chemist, after Greek khaos chaos, Dutch g representing Greek kh.]
An occult principle supposed to be contained in all bodies, and to represent an ultra-rarefied condition of water. Long obsolete exc. Hist. M17.
Any airlike fluid that can change its volume indefinitely, esp. one that does not become liquid or solid at ordinary temperatures (cf. vapour); any substance normally existing in this state. E18.
bottled gas, coal gas, exhaust gas, harassing gas, ideal gas, inert gas, marsh gas, mustard gas, natural gas, nerve gas, noble gas, producer gas, rare gas, tear-gas, town gas, water gas, etc.
spec.
a. Such a substance, usu. a hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture, suitable for burning in order to provide heat, light, or power. L18.
b. Hydrogen, helium, or Other substance used to fill a balloon or airship. L18.
c. Mining. An explosive mixture of firedamp (methane) and air. M19.
d. = laughing-gas s.v. LAUGHING noun. L19.
e. Vapour generated in the alimentary canal; wind. Chiefly N. Amer. L19.
P. Barry Baby better. It was only gas.
f. Any of various gases or vapours used in warfare to disable the enemy by poisoning, asphyxiation, irritation, etc. Also poison gas. E20.
A jet or jets of flammable gas, used for lighting, Cooking, etc.; the supply of gas to a house etc. M19.
a. Pointless idle talk; a chat; boasting, humbug, nonsense. slang. M19.
all gas and gaiters, gas and gaiters slang (a) a satisfactory state of affairs; (b) pomposity, verbosity.
R. W. Emerson Lord Shaftesbury..reads sermons to them, and they call it 'gas'. Day Lewis The sisters would sit..shelling peas and having a great old gas.
b. Fun; a joke. Anglo-Irish slang. E20.
B. Behan Someone was imitating my accent, and getting great gas out of it.
c. A person who or thing which is very attractive, exciting, impressive, etc. slang. M20.
E. Jong Isn't that interesting?..Isn't that a gas?
Attrib. & comb.: In the sense 'using gas as a fuel', as gas cooker, gas engine, gas fire, gas-lamp, gas motor, gas range (N. Amer.), gas stove, gas welding, etc.; gas-fired adjective. Special combs., as gas alarm an alarm device: (a) giving warning of the presence of esp. poisonous gas; (b) operated by gas; gas black a pigment made of carbon produced by the burning of gas; gas bracket a (usu. decorative) projecting metal pipe supporting and supplying a gas lamp or burner; gas centrifuge a centrifuge for partially separating gases (esp. gaseous compounds of different isotopes of the same element); gas chamber an airtight chamber used for killing people or animals by gas poisoning; gas chromatography a method of chromatography in which the moving phase is a carrier gas (cf. gas-liquid chromatography below); gas coal bituminous coal used in the manufacture of coal gas; gas constant (Physical Chemistry) the constant of proportionality, R (= 8.314 joule kelvin1 mole1), in the gas equation (see below); gas-cooled adjective (of an engine, nuclear reactor, etc.) cooled by a current of gas; gas engine an internal-combustion engine using gas as fuel; gas equation (Physical Chemistry) the equation of state of an ideal gas, PV = nRT, where P = pressure, V = volume, T = absolute temperature, R = the gas constant (see above), and n = the number of moles of gas; gas-fitter a person who installs and Services gas fittings; gas fittings the apparatus used for heating etc. with gas; gas gangrene: resulting from infection by Clostridium welchii or a similar bacterium and characterized by the generation of gas; gas giant Astronomy a large planet composed mostly of gaseous material (usu. surrounding a solid core); spec. any of the four largest planets in the Solar System, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune; gas gland: secreting gas; gas gun: using gas as a propellant or as fuel; gas helmet: worn as protection against (poison) gas; gasholder a large structure for storing gas, a gasometer; gas-house (chiefly US) (a building forming part of) a gas-works; gas kinetics: see KINETICS 2; gas laws Physical Chemistry a set of laws (e.g. Boyle's, Charles', Graham's laws) that describe the physical properties of gases; gaslight light given off by burning (esp. coal) gas; a jet of burning gas; a gas-lamp; gas lighter (a) a device for igniting gas; (b) a cigarette lighter with gaseous fuel; gas-liquid chromatography gas chromatography in which the stationary phase is liquid; gas main a main pipe supplying gas to a building or buildings; gas-mantle: see MANTLE noun 6; gas mask an appliance including a respirator worn over the face as a defence against poisonous gas; gas meter an apparatus recording the amount of gas consumed; gas oil petroleum distillate intermediate in viscosity and boiling point between paraffin (kerosene) and lubricating oils; gas oven (a) an oven heated by gas; (b) = gas chamber above; gas-permeable adjective (of a contact lens) allowing the diffusion of gases into and out of the cornea; gas plant = FRAXINELLA; gas Poker a perforated hollow Poker through which gas flows to be ignited and so provide heat to kindle a fire; gas producer: see PRODUCER 3; gas ring a perforated hollow ring supplied with gas and on which a pan etc. can be heated; gas thread a standard form of screw-thread of relatively fine pitch, used on metal tubes; gas trap: see TRAP noun1 6c; gas turbine: driven by a flow of gas or by gas produced from combustion; gasworks a building or buildings where gas is manufactured.
gasless adjective without gas; not lighted by gas: M19.

udder (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: uder]
the part of a cow, female goat etc that hangs down between its back legs and that produces milk