Gas vs Cylinder - What's the difference?
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(uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate 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.
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, title= (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
(uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
(countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
(US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
(slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
(baseball) A fastball.
To kill with poisonous .
To talk, chat.
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To emit gas.
(uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
(US) gas pedal
(US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
(US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel
(Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany.
(geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
(geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
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A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas.
An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
(computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
As nouns the difference between gas and cylinder
is that gas is goose while cylinder is (geometry) a surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.gas
English
(wikipedia gas)Etymology 1
From (etyl) gas, a word coined by chemist . From (etyl) .Noun
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Synonyms
* (state of matter) vapor / vapour * (digestive process) wind, fart (when gas is released) (qualifier)Derived terms
* cooking with gas * gas giant * gaslight * gasometer * LP gas * natural gas * shale gasSee also
* fluid * liquid * solidVerb
Etymology 2
Shortening of (gasoline).Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (gasoline) gasoline (US), petrol (British) * See also .Verb
- The cops are coming. Gas it!
Synonyms
* (accelerate) step on the gas, hit the gas * (filll fuel tank) refuelEtymology 3
Compare the slang usage of "a gas", above.Adjective
(-)- Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
- It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.
Usage notes
* This is common in speech, but rarely used in writing.Anagrams
* ----cylinder
English
Noun
(en noun)- When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder''. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a ''right cylinder''. In non-mathematical usage, both ''right'' and ''circular are usually implied.
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- A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder .
