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  • 31gas — noun 1 substance like air ADJECTIVE ▪ deadly, noxious, poisonous, toxic ▪ explosive, flammable, inflammable (esp. BrE), radioactive …

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  • 32gas — 1. n. intestinal gas. □ The baby has gas and will cry for a while longer. □ I’m not too well, but I think it’s just gas. 2. n. nonsense. □ All we got in class today was gas. □ …

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  • 33Gas 5 — Infobox Album Name = Gas 5 Type = studio Artist = Gasolin Released = start date|1975|10|14 Recorded = June 1975 at Rosenberg studio, Copenhagen Genre = Rock Length = 38:33 Language = Danish, English Label = CBS Producer = Roy Thomas Baker Last… …

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  • 34Gas Chambers —    Following Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, inmates from psychiatric hospitals in Posen were sent and crammed into a sealed room in the local headquarters of the Gestapo. Here they were forced to inhale carbon monoxide gas… …

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  • 35gas — 1. noun /ɡæs/ a) 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… …

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  • 36Gas House Gang (quartet) — Infobox musical artist Name = The Gas House Gang Img capt = The Gas House Gang Background = group or band URL = [http://www.gashousegang.com/ www.gashousegang.com] Current members = Kipp Buckner Tenor Rich Knight Lead Rob Henry [late] Baritone Dr …

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  • 37Gas (film) — Infobox Film name = Gas director = Henry Chan producer = Claude Brooks, James Tripp Haith, Marvin Hayes, Ralph Farquhar, Tony Smith writer = Mark Swinton Michael Haran starring = Flex Alexander Khalil Kain Gina Ravera Jo Marie Payton Noble Sticky …

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  • 38Gas, laughing — Nitrous oxide, a gas capable of causing general anesthesia. Today nitrous oxide is sometimes given in the company of other anesthetic agents but is no longer used as the sole anesthetic agent because the concentration of nitrous oxide needed to… …

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  • 39gas — 1. A thin fluid, like air, capable of indefinite expansion but convertible by compression and cold into a liquid and, eventually, a solid. 2. In clinical practice, a liquid entirely in its vapor phase at one …

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  • 40had better —     When the London summit meets, foreign ministers better stiffen their sinews (Guardian). In conditional sentences, the required expression is had better. The error, more common in America than in Britain, is seen again in this advertisement in …

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