GAS

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Traducere în limba română

gas I. s.

1. (chim.) gaz, corp gazos.

2. gaz aerian.

3. gaz ilariant.

4. (fam.) flecăreală, lăudăroşenie, fanfaronadă, gargară, bărbiereală;

to turn on a great amount of gas about smth. a flecări mult despre un lucru.

5. (amer.) benzină

6. (mine) gaz de mină, grizu.

7. (med.) vânturi, gaze.

8. (amer. sl.) ceva excepţional (o persoană, un dans, un şlagăr, o petrecere, un articol de larg consum etc.).

gas II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a otrăvi cu gaze, a gaza.

2. a umple cu gaze până la saturaţie.

3. (amer.) a completa cu combustibil.

gas II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a degaja / a elimina / a emana gaze (otrăvitoare).

2. (fam.) a flecări, a se lăuda, a tăia piroane, a se bărbieri, a face gargară; a spune prostii pentru a induce în eroare.

Holmes turned up the gas and raised the lid.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Did you tell 'm you'd charge him for gas if he goes on readin' in bed?" he demanded.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

But in all this country there is no gas to fill the balloon with, to make it float.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

I had expected a rush of gas from the week-old corpse.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Our gas was lit and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for the table had not been cleared yet.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ozone, a gas, is a major part of air pollution in cities.

(Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency)

No, the gas.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will now light the gas, Watson, but you will be very careful that not for one instant shall it be more than half on.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But how on earth do you deduce that the gas is not laid on in his house?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Turn up the gas? Ah, the shadows begin to fall, do they? Yes, I will turn it up, that I may see you the better.”

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)