Gas

Definition

gas / gæs / n ( pl gases ) ၁။ [C,U] ဓာတ္ေငြ႕။ a gas balloon (ie one filled with gas) ❍ Hydrogen and oxygen are gases. ❍ Air is a mixture of gases. ၂။ [ U ] (က) သဘာဝ ဓာတ္ေငြ႕။ 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) ႏိုက္ထရတ္ ေအာက္ဆိုက္ ဓာတ္ေငြ႕။ I was given gas when the dentist pulled my tooth out. ❍ Did you have gas or an injection? (ဂ) အဆိပ္ဓာတ္ေငြ႕။ a gas attack. ၃။ [U] ( US infml ) = PETROL ၄။ [U] ( infml derog ) ေလလံုး။ ႂကြားလံုး။ Don't believe a word he says–it's all gas! ၅။ [U] ( US ) = WIND 1 ၃ v ( -ss- ) ၁။ အဆိပ္ဓာတ္ေငြ႕သင့္ေစသည္။ He was badly gassed in the war. ❍ She committed suicide by gassing herself. ၂။ ~ (about sth) ( infml derog ) ေလေဖာင္သည္။ ေလပစ္သည္။ They sat gassing (about nothing) all morning and never did a stroke of work. ❏ gas chamber n ဓာတ္ေငြ႕ျဖင့္ ကြပ္မ်က္သည့္ အခန္း။ He was sent to the gas chamber. ❏ gas-cooled adj ဓာတ္ေငြ႕ျဖင့္ အေအးဓာတ္ ေပးေသာ။ gas-cooled nuclear reactors. ❏ gas -fired adj ဓာတ္ေငြ႕ျဖင့္ မီးဖိုေသာ။ ဓာတ္ေငြ႕ျဖင့္ အေႏြးဓာတ္ေပးေသာ။ gas-fired central heating. ❏ gas mask n ဓာတ္ေငြ႕ကာမ်က္ႏွာဖံုး။ ❍ MASK ❏ gas meter n ဓာတ္ေငြ႕မီတာ။ ❏ gas station n ( US ) = PETROL STATION

Examples

1. Regulations to cut the emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide
2. They detected high levels of radon gas in the building.
3. A gas cooker/heater/boiler
4. She couldn’t pay her gas bill.
5. Can you smell gas?
6. [gas mark 3/4 etc] : Heat the oven to gas mark 6.
7. Police used gas to disperse the crowd.
8. A nerve gas attack left hundreds injured.
9. [get gas] : We need to get some gas before we leave town.