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Gas can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.

gas used as a noun:

  1. Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly.
    "A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder"
  2. A chemical element or compound in such a state.
    "The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases"
  3. An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating or electricity generation.
    "Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones."
  4. Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
    "My tummy hurts so bad, I have gas."
  5. A humorous or entertaining event or person.
    "He is such a gas!"
  6. A fastball.
    "The closer threw him nothing but gas."
  7. Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

gas used as a verb:

  1. To kill with poisonous gas.
  2. To talk, chat.
  3. To emit gas.
    "The battery cell was gassing."
  4. To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
    "The cops are coming. Gas it!"
  5. To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

gas used as an adjective:

  1. comical, zany.
    "Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man."

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

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What type of word is gas?

As detailed above, 'gas' can be a noun, a verb or an adjective. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder
  2. Noun usage: The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases
  3. Noun usage: Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.
  4. Noun usage: My tummy hurts so bad, I have gas.
  5. Noun usage: He is such a gas!
  6. Noun usage: The closer threw him nothing but gas.
  7. Verb usage: The battery cell was gassing.
  8. Verb usage: The cops are coming. Gas it!
  9. Adjective usage: Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
  10. Adjective usage: It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of gas are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of gas, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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