gas

gas

Combustible gaseoso que se quema para cocinar, calentar edificios o producir electricidad.

En inglés sencillo: A fuel that is burned to cook food, heat buildings, or produce electricity.

• We heat our house with gas.
• The gas bill was high last winter.
• Workers repaired a gas leak in the street.

Expresiones frecuentes: natural gas, gas heating, gas bill, gas leak

gasolina, nafta

Combustible líquido utilizado por muchos coches y otros vehículos.

En inglés sencillo: The liquid fuel used by many cars and other vehicles.

• The car needs gas.
• We stopped for gas before crossing the desert.
• How much gas does your truck use?

Sinónimos: gasoline, petrol

Expresiones frecuentes: gas station, gas tank, pump gas, run out of gas

gas

Sustancia como el aire, ni sólida ni líquida, que se expande hasta ocupar todo su recipiente.

En inglés sencillo: A substance like air that spreads out to fill its container and is neither solid nor liquid.

• Oxygen is a gas.
• The balloon contains a gas lighter than air.
• Some gases become liquids when cooled.

Sinónimos: vapor, vapour

Expresiones frecuentes: oxygen gas, gas pressure, gas particles, gas expands

acelerador

Pedal que se pisa para aumentar la velocidad de un vehículo.

En inglés sencillo: The pedal you press with your foot to make a vehicle go faster.

• She pressed the gas.
• Take your foot off the gas before the bend.
• He hit the gas and drove away quickly.

Sinónimos: accelerator, gas pedal

Expresiones frecuentes: hit the gas, press the gas, off the gas, on the gas

gases, flatulencia

Aire del estómago o intestino que puede causar molestias y salir al eructar o expulsar gases.

En inglés sencillo: Air in your stomach or bowels that can cause discomfort or leave your body through burping or farting.

• Beans can give me gas.
• The baby had gas after feeding.
• A short walk helped relieve the trapped gas.

Sinónimos: wind, flatulence

Expresiones frecuentes: have gas, pass gas, trapped gas, gas pain

hornillo, quemador

Parte de una cocina donde arde el combustible debajo de una olla o sartén.

En inglés sencillo: The part of a cooker where fuel burns beneath a pan.

• Put the kettle on the gas.
• She turned the gas down when the soup began to boil.
• Have you turned the gas off under the pan?

Sinónimos: burner, gas ring

Expresiones frecuentes: on the gas, light the gas, turn the gas down, turn the gas off

repostar, cargar gasolina

Poner combustible en el depósito de un vehículo.

En inglés sencillo: To put fuel into a vehicle's tank.

• Let's gas up here.
• She gassed up the truck before work.
• Have you gassed the car up for our trip?

Cómo se usa: gas up (We need to gas up before leaving.); gas something up / gas up something (He gassed the car up at the next station.)

Sinónimos: refuel, fill up

Expresiones frecuentes: gas up, gas up the car, gas the truck up

gasear

Usar gas para intoxicar, matar o dejar inconsciente a alguien.

En inglés sencillo: To use poisonous fumes to harm or kill someone, or use fumes to make someone unconscious.

• They gassed the rats in the warehouse.
• Many soldiers were gassed during the war.
• The animals were gassed to make them unconscious before surgery.

Cómo se usa: gas someone/something (The soldiers were gassed during the attack.)

Expresiones frecuentes: gas someone, gas the pests, gas an animal