gases
/ɡas/
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ga - ses -> gases
၁။ [C,U] ဓာတ်ငွေ့။ a gas balloon (ie one filled with gas) ❍ Hydrogen and oxygen are gases. ❍ Air is a mixture of gases.
၂။ [ U] (က) သဘာဝ ဓာတ်ငွေ့။ butane/Calor/coal gas ❍ a gas cooker/fire/oven/ring/stove (ie using gas as fuel) ❍ cook on a low/medium/high gas (ie on a gas cooker) ❍ Is your central heating gas or electricity? ❍ Light the gas / Turn the gas on and we'll have a bowl of soup.
(ခ) နိုက်ထရတ် အောက်ဆိုက် ဓာတ်ငွေ့။ I was given gas when the dentist pulled my tooth out. ❍ Did you have gas or an injection?
(ဂ) အဆိပ်ဓာတ်ငွေ့။ a gas attack.
၃။ [U] (US infml ) = PETROL
၄။ [U] (infml derog ) လေလုံး။ ကြွားလုံး။ Don't believe a word he says–it's all gas!
၅။ [U] (US ) = WIND1 ၃
v (-ss- )
၁။ အဆိပ်ဓာတ်ငွေ့သင့်စေသည်။ He was badly gassed in the war. ❍ She committed suicide by gassing herself.
၂။ ~ (about sth) (infml derog ) လေဖောင်သည်။ လေပစ်သည်။ They sat gassing (about nothing) all morning and never did a stroke of work.
❏ gas chamber n ဓာတ်ငွေ့ဖြင့် ကွပ်မျက်သည့် အခန်း။ He was sent to the gas chamber.
❏ gas-cooled adj ဓာတ်ငွေ့ဖြင့် အအေးဓာတ် ပေးသော။ gas-cooled nuclear reactors.
❏ gas -fired adj ဓာတ်ငွေ့ဖြင့် မီးဖိုသော။ ဓာတ်ငွေ့ဖြင့် အနွေးဓာတ်ပေးသော။ gas-fired central heating.
❏ gas mask n ဓာတ်ငွေ့ကာမျက်နှာဖုံး။ ❍ MASK
❏ gas meter n ဓာတ်ငွေ့မီတာ။
❏ gas station n (US ) = PETROL STATION
- Regulations to cut the emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide
- They detected high levels of radon gas in the building.
- A gas cooker/heater/boiler
- She couldn’t pay her gas bill.
- Can you smell gas?
- [gas mark 3/4 etc] : Heat the oven to gas mark 6.
- Police used gas to disperse the crowd.
- A nerve gas attack left hundreds injured.
- [get gas] : We need to get some gas before we leave town.
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