gas vs gun

gas

noun
  • A chemical element or compound in such a state. 

  • Arterial or venous blood gas. 

  • Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel. 

  • An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions. 

  • Poison gas. 

  • A hob on a gas cooker. 

  • A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas. 

  • A humorous or entertaining event or person. 

  • Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus. 

  • Frothy or boastful talk; chatter. 

  • Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition. 

  • A fastball. 

  • Marijuana, typically of high quality. 

  • A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder. 

verb
  • To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel. 

  • To attack or kill with poison gas. 

  • To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it. 

  • To impose upon by talking boastfully. 

  • To emit gas. 

  • To impregnate with gas. 

  • To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers. 

  • To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter. 

adj
  • Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man. 

  • Comical, zany; fun, amusing. 

gun

noun
  • A device or tool that projects a substance. 

  • A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity. 

  • A pattern that "fires" out other patterns. 

  • The biceps. 

  • Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube. 

  • A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer. 

  • A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. 

  • A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun. 

  • A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun. 

  • A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it. 

  • Violent blasts of wind. 

  • An expert. 

  • Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool. 

  • A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon. 

  • A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute) 

  • A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower). 

  • An electron gun. 

verb
  • To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause). 

  • To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for. 

  • To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer. 

  • To cause to speed up. 

  • To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning. 

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