Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fumigating of fruit-trees by means of hydrocyanic-acid gas, to destroy insects.
- noun The evolution of gas from the plates of a storage or secondary cell.
- noun The process of singeing lace, cotton, yarn, etc., to remove the hairy filaments.
- noun The act or practice of talking in an idle, empty manner; talking nonsense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Manuf.) 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.
- noun Slang Boasting; insincere or empty talk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
gas . - noun
Poisoning bynoxious gas . - noun The liberation of
hydrogen from anovercharged battery due toelectrolysis of theelectrolyte . - noun The process of passing
cotton goods between tworollers and exposing them to numerous minutejets ofgas to burn off the smallfibres . - noun Any similar process of
singeing . - noun slang, dated
boasting ;insincere orempty talk
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas
- noun the process of interacting with gas
Etymologies
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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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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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