WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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accelerator, accelerator pedal, blow, bluster, boast, brag, flatulence, flatulency, gas, gasconade, gasolene, gasoline, gas pedal, gun, natural gas, petrol, shoot a line, swash, throttle, tout, vaunt,
1. NOUN. (gas)
a pedal that controls the throttle valve
"he stepped on the gas"
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2. NOUN. (gas)
a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
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3. NOUN. (gas)
the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity
relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature
the ability to diffuse readily
and the spontaneous tendency
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4. NOUN. (gas)
a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum
used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
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5. NOUN. (gas)
a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
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atmosphere, noble gas, inert gas, argonon, chlorine, Cl, atomic number 17, fluorine, F, atomic number 9, hydrogen, H, atomic number 1, nitrogen, N, atomic number 7, oxygen, O, atomic number 8, butane, propane, afterdamp, firedamp, arsine, nitrogen dioxide, nitric oxide, blow gas, blowing gas, butylene, butene, cyanogen, exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes, air, compressed gas, ethylene, ethene, producer gas, air gas, formaldehyde, methanal, greenhouse gas, greenhouse emission, liquefied petroleum gas, bottled gas, water gas, ideal gas, perfect gas, inhalant, methane, ozone, phosgene, phosphine, poison gas, propylene, propene, mephitis, sewer gas, sublimate, sulfur dioxide, sulphur dioxide, tear gas, teargas, lacrimator, lachrymator,
6. NOUN. (gas)
a fossil fuel in the gaseous state
used for cooking and heating homes
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7. VERB. (gas)
show off
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brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade, bragger, braggart, boaster, blowhard, line-shooter, vaunter, vaunt, braggadocio, bluster, rodomontade, rhodomontade, bravado, bluster, loudmouth, blusterer, bragger, braggart, boaster, blowhard, line-shooter, vaunter, bragger, braggart, boaster, blowhard, line-shooter, vaunter, brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade, boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation, bragger, braggart, boaster, blowhard, line-shooter, vaunter,
