(Gas) : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: (Gas)	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for (Gas)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
GasGas\Gas\, n. Gasoline. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
GasGas\Gas\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gassed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gassing}.] 1. (Textiles) To singe, as in a gasgasflame, so as to remove loose fibers; as, to gasgasthread. 2. To impregnate with gas; as, to gasgaslime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
GasGas\Gas\ (g[acr]s), n.; pl. {Gases} (-[ecr]z). [Invented by the chemist Van Helmont of Brussels, who died in 1644.] 1. An a[89]riform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or a[89]riform state. 2. (Popular Usage) (a) A complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced by the destructive distillation of gasgascoal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gasgasused for illuminating purposes. (b) Laughing gas. (c) Any irrespirable a[89]riform fluid.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Gas, KS (city, FIPS 25975) Location: 37.92271 N, 95.34470 W Population (1990): 505 (227 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
gasgas [as in `gasgaschamber'] 1. interj. A term of disgust and hatred, implying that gasgasshould be dispensed in generous quantities, thereby exterminating the source of irritation. "Some loser just reloaded the system for no reason! Gas!" 2. interj. A suggestion that someone or something ought to be flushed out of mercy. "The system's getting {wedged} every few minutes. Gas!" 3. vt. To {flush} (sense 1). "You should gasgasthat old crufty software." 4. [IBM] n. Dead space in nonsequentially organized files that was occupied by data that has since been deleted; the compression operation that removes it is called `degassing' (by analogy, perhaps, with the use of the same term in vacuum technology). 5. [IBM] n. Empty space on a disk that has been clandestinely allocated against future need.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
gasgas {GNU assembler}