Crossword clues for gassing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gas \Gas\ (g[a^]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gassed (g[a^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Gassing.]
(Textiles) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers; as, to gas thread.
To impregnate with gas; as, to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder.
to expose to a poisonous or noxious gas ``The protest threatened to become violent, and the police gassed the demonstrators to force them to disperse.''
Gassing \Gas"sing\, n.
(Manuf.) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.
Boasting; insincere or empty talk. [Slang]
Wiktionary
n. 1 poisoning by noxious gas. 2 The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte. 3 The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres. 4 Any similar process of singeing. 5 (context slang dated English) boasting; insincere or empty talk vb. (present participle of gas English)
WordNet
See gas
n. 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 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 [syn: gasoline, gasolene, petrol]
a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal [syn: flatulence, flatulency]
a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, throttle, gun]
a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes [syn: natural gas]
n. the process of interacting with gas
the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas
Wikipedia
Gassing, also known as chucking, is prison slang for the act of throwing feces or some other bodily fluid such as urine, blood or saliva at a jail or prison staff member.
Gassing is an act of rebellion by inmates against custodial staff and is a felony in most U.S. states.
Victims of gassing are encouraged to undertake medical testing for possible infectious diseases. Gassing may occur spontaneously – such as when an inmate spits in the face of a correctional officer – or in a planned encounter – such as when an inmate mixes urine or feces with another liquid substance and throws it at a staff member when given the chance. In the state of California, for example, since 1998 a conviction for gassing has carried a sentence of up to five years segregation in prison.
Gassing can mean:
- Emitting gas
- Gassing (battery), destructive gas generation in batteries
- Gassing (textile process), passing newly spun yarn through a flame to remove the loose fibre ends
- Harming or killing with gas, see Poison gas
- Gassing (prison slang), a type of misbehavior in prisons
- Talking diffusely or profusely
- Places in Austria
- Gassing, Frauenstein, Austria
- Gassing, Sankt Lorenzen im Mürztal
In textile manufacturing, gassing is the process of passing newly spun yarn through a flame to remove the loose fibre ends.
Usage examples of "gassing".
Restrepo show films of the cops gassing people in Laguna Park, the day after Ruben died!
He had been afraid that his voice might have been permanently weakened by the gassing he had suffered at the front.
Speed was an important factor, especially at Auschwitz, where toward the end the camp was setting new records by gassing 6,000 victims a day.
The gassing of Jewish patients recovering in hospitals proved to be an acceptable and popular solution to this perceived threat.
Even then, some of the people survived both the gassing and the shooting and were buried while still stirring.
Then they drifted back into sleep or semisleep while at the field itself there was time for neither imagining nor sleep in the shoving and hoisting of bombs and torpedoes and the stiff coiling of belted bullets in then- cans, the gassing, the oiling, the changing of damaged parts, in the noise of engines and blown dust and the sharp smell of high-octane fuel.
While they were gassing and the squadron commanders were planning the strike, the B-17 search planes returned.
It could have been placed there while they were gassing up at Pier 66.
This is where the street action lives: The bars, the hustlers, the drug market, the whores -- and also the riots, the trashings, killings, gassings, the sporadic bloody clashes with the hated, common enemy: The cops, the Pigs, the Man, that blue-crusted army of fearsome gabacho troops from the East L.
Such formalities were dispensed with at Auschwitz when the massive gassings began.
I can only blame the so-called ecologists and their gassing on about carbon dioxides and whatnot, because has it never occurred to anyone else except me that this may just be part of the Great Plan for humankind to have evolved to the point where we can spray fluorocarbonated air fresheners hither and yon to offset the next scheduled Ice Age?
As it happened, one of the city police picked up Dillard at a service station on the outskirts of town where he was gassing up.
The extra insolation means less warming needed from industrial gassing.
Rape, child abuse, and bestiality: all rapists, nonces and sheep-shaggers wanted hanging, garroting, and gassing, the bastards.
He was at a service plaza in Fort Pierce, gassing up Al Garcia's car.