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Gas

noun

(pl. gases)

1.

The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container. Synonym: gaseous state.

2.

A fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely.

3.

A volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines. Synonyms: gasolene, gasoline, petrol.

4.

A state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal. Synonyms: flatulence, flatulency.

5.

A pedal that controls the throttle valve. Synonyms: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gun, throttle.

6.

A fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes. Synonym: natural gas.

verb

(past & past part. gassed; pres. part. gassing)

1.

Attack with gas; subject to gas fumes.

2.

Show off. Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt.

GAO

noun

1.

An independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States. Synonyms: Government Accounting Office, United States Government Accounting Office.

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— Kept in the Dark • Anthony Trollope

... to Baltimore I had but two definite impressions connected with the place: the first was of a tunnel, filled with coal gas, through which trains pass beneath the city; the second was that when a southbound train left Baltimore the time had come to think of cleaning ...

— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

... not more than about sixteen, and so slenderly formed as to appear almost a child. Her features were clear-cut as a cameo and she had a slightly foreign air. Her eyes were brown, but as the light of the gas-lamp fell full on her upturned face, they showed so dark and velvety as almost to appear black, while masses of dark hair clustered in ...

— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice

... gas makes a halo about the bowed white head of a little old man putting his violin carefully away in its case with aged, trembling, nervous fingers. Old M'sieu Fortier was the last one out ...

— The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories • Alice Dunbar

... thus impeded, and, as the patient is unable to cough, mucus gathers in the air-passages and there is a tendency to broncho-pneumonia. As the patient is unable to aid defecation or to expel flatus by straining, the bowel is liable to become distended with faeces and gas, and the meteorism which results adds to the embarrassment of respiration by pressing on the diaphragm. There is retention of urine followed by dribbling from overflow. As the reflex arc is intact there may be involuntary and unconscious micturition ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

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