Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. Present participle of gas.
- n. Poisoning by noxious gas.
- n. The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
- n. The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
- n. Any similar process of singeing.
- n. boasting; insincere or empty talk
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.
- n. Boasting; insincere or empty talk.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The process of singeing lace, cotton, yarn, etc., to remove the hairy filaments.
- n. The act or practice of talking in an idle, empty manner; talking nonsense.
- n. The fumigating of fruit-trees by means of hydrocyanic-acid gas, to destroy insects.
- n. The evolution of gas from the plates of a storage or secondary cell.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas
- n. the process of interacting with gas
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Examples
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That was impressive with all the toxic fumes off-gassing from the new products.
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The FBI was duplicitous and negligent in gassing Mt. Cannel – and that alone could have started the fire that killed seventy-six people.
University To Create Online Exhibit On Branch Davidian Siege
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lying to Americans about Iraq and WMD- What do you call gassing his own people?
Think Progress » Fox on The Defensive, Promos Interview As ‘Clinton Gets Crazed’
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It wasn’t disproved, no matter how hard you wish otherwise.l ying to Americans about Iraq and WMD- What do you call gassing his own people?
Think Progress » Fox on The Defensive, Promos Interview As ‘Clinton Gets Crazed’
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It's called the eradication program, as in what some call gassing parakeets.
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Indeed, the idea of gassing the unwanted became a topic of contemporary chitchat.
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The purpose of "gassing" is to let the soldier know how well the gas mask works.
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And so the reason that they went to this propane kind of gassing, that doesn't necessarily set off a lot of red flags.
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Of the four claims he makes, only the "gassing" is difficult to explain I suspect it might be partly related to the use of napalm type weapons in Iraq.
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Mystery mental illness baffles experts in Sweden, and a case of suspected mass hysteria arises in a 'gassing' scare in Melbourne.
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