Gas Gases ɡæs Air Mixture Type Oven Mark

• air is a mixture of gases.
• cfc gases
• a gas bottle/cylinder (= for storing gas)
• a gas cooker/fire/furnace/oven/ring/stove

gas

1. any substance like air that is neither a solid nor a liquid, for example hydrogen and oxygen are both gases
• see also greenhouse gas
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/greenhouse-gas
• Air is a mixture of gases.
• CFC gases
• a gas bottle/cylinder (= for storing gas)
2. a particular type of gas or mixture of gases used as fuel for heating and cooking
• see also Calor gas™
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/calor-gastm
• a gas cooker/fire/furnace/oven/ring/stove
• a gas explosion/leak
• gas central heating
• Preheat the oven to gas mark 5 (= a particular temperature of a gas oven)
3. a particular type of gas used during a medical operation, to make the patient sleep or to make the pain less
• see also laughing gas
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/laughing-gas
• an anaesthetic gas
• Did you have gas or an injection?
• During the birth she was given gas and air.
4. a particular type of gas used in war to kill or injure people, or used by the police to control people
• see also CS gas
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cs-gas
• a gas attack
5. a liquid obtained from petroleum, used as fuel in car engines, etc.
• a gas station
• a gas pump
• to fill up the gas tank
• = gas pedal
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/gas-pedal
• Step on the gas, we're late.
6. a person or an event that is fun
• The party was a real gas.
7. air that you swallow with food or drink; gas that is produced in your stomach or intestines that makes you feel uncomfortable
8. to be doing something very well and successfully

Extra Examples

• Chinese gas reserves are now being tapped.
• He hit the gas pedal and headed off.
• I lit the gas and put the soup on to warm.
• I prefer to cook with gas.
• It gives off a poisonous gas as it decomposes.
• Local gas works were closed as natural gas became available.
• Millions of Jews were sent to the gas chambers by the Nazis.
• Noxious gases had built up in the sewer.
• Police used water cannon and tear gas against demonstrators.
• Set the oven at gas mark 4.
• Toxic gases can escape through one of the pipes.
• We stopped at a gas station to fill up.
• greenhouse gas emissions
• pollution from greenhouse gases
• tapping the North Sea gas fields
• All the apartments are fitted with gas central heating.
• He still had plenty of gas in the tank.
• Much of Britain’s energy is supplied by natural gas from the North Sea.
• Preheat the oven to gas mark 5.
• Producing methane gas from organic waste is another extremely practical use of resources.
• The explosion was caused by a gas leak.
• We have a gas cooker in the kitchen.

Word Origin

• mid 17th cent.: 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.