English words for 'Relating to, or producing methane'
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- (chemistry, of a reaction) That releases energy in the form of heat.
- (zoology) Of an animal: whose body temperature is regulated by external factors; cold-blooded.
- (chemistry, of a compound) That releases heat during its formation, and absorbs it during its decomposition.
- (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat
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- Having the nature of, or containing, gas.
- (specifically, of a beverage) Containing dissolved gas (usually carbon dioxide); fizzy.
- (specifically, of a person) Tending to burp; burpy.
- (of food or drink) Tending to cause flatulence.
- (specifically, of a person) Tending to release flatus; flatulent.
- (figuratively, informal) Tending to be long-winded or wordy, especially in a boastful and vain manner.
- suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal
- resembling gas
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- (intransitive) To emit gas.
- (transitive) To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
- (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
- (US) To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it.
- (transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.
- (transitive, slang) To impose upon by talking boastfully.
- (intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.
- (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
- (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
- attack with gas; subject to gas fumes
- show off
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- (uncountable) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
- (countable, physical chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
- (uncountable, military) Poison gas.
- (business, often attributive) The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
- (uncountable) 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.
- (uncountable, by extension) Ellipsis of gas pedal; accelerator, throttle.
- (uncountable, physical chemistry) 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.
- (uncountable, Canada, US, New Zealand, Philippines) Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- (baseball) A fastball.
- (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
- (medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.
- (uncountable, cryptocurrencies) An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
- (slang) Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
- 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 to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
- a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
- a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
- a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes
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- the bivalent radical CH2 derived from methane
- (organic chemistry) The same group, present as a repeating unit, in aliphatic compounds with names such as hexamethylenediamine.
- (organic chemistry) The divalent group –CH₂– in which the free valencies are part of single bonds.
- (organic chemistry) The unstable carbene :CH₂
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- (chemistry) The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
- A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
- (geometry) The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
- (military) A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
- Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
- (mathematics, now chiefly historical) The extraction of a root from a given power.
- (biology) The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.
- (chiefly dance, sports) A turning movement, especially of the body.
- (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
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- the bivalent radical CH2 derived from methane
- (organic chemistry) The same group, present as a repeating unit, in aliphatic compounds with names such as hexamethylenediamine.
- (organic chemistry) The divalent group –CH₂– in which the free valencies are part of single bonds.
- (organic chemistry) The unstable carbene :CH₂
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- (chemistry) The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
- A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
- (geometry) The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
- (military) A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
- Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
- (mathematics, now chiefly historical) The extraction of a root from a given power.
- (biology) The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.
- (chiefly dance, sports) A turning movement, especially of the body.
- (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
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- (intransitive) To emit gas.
- (transitive) To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
- (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
- (US) To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it.
- (transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.
- (transitive, slang) To impose upon by talking boastfully.
- (intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.
- (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
- (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
- attack with gas; subject to gas fumes
- show off
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
- (countable, physical chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
- (uncountable, military) Poison gas.
- (business, often attributive) The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
- (uncountable) 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.
- (uncountable, by extension) Ellipsis of gas pedal; accelerator, throttle.
- (uncountable, physical chemistry) 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.
- (uncountable, Canada, US, New Zealand, Philippines) Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- (baseball) A fastball.
- (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
- (medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.
- (uncountable, cryptocurrencies) An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
- (slang) Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
- 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 to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
- a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
- a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
- a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes
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- (chemistry, of a reaction) That releases energy in the form of heat.
- (zoology) Of an animal: whose body temperature is regulated by external factors; cold-blooded.
- (chemistry, of a compound) That releases heat during its formation, and absorbs it during its decomposition.
- (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat
noun
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- Having the nature of, or containing, gas.
- (specifically, of a beverage) Containing dissolved gas (usually carbon dioxide); fizzy.
- (specifically, of a person) Tending to burp; burpy.
- (of food or drink) Tending to cause flatulence.
- (specifically, of a person) Tending to release flatus; flatulent.
- (figuratively, informal) Tending to be long-winded or wordy, especially in a boastful and vain manner.
- suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal
- resembling gas