gas

gaz

Combustible gazeux brûlé pour cuisiner, chauffer des bâtiments ou produire de l’électricité.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : natural gas, gas heating, gas bill, gas leak

essence

Carburant liquide utilisé par de nombreuses voitures et d’autres véhicules.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : gasoline, petrol

Expressions courantes : gas station, gas tank, pump gas, run out of gas

gaz

Substance comme l’air, ni solide ni liquide, qui se répand dans tout le récipient qui la contient.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : vapor, vapour

Expressions courantes : oxygen gas, gas pressure, gas particles, gas expands

accélérateur

Pédale sur laquelle on appuie avec le pied pour accélérer un véhicule.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : accelerator, gas pedal

Expressions courantes : hit the gas, press the gas, off the gas, on the gas

gaz, flatulences

Air dans l’estomac ou les intestins, pouvant gêner et sortir sous forme de rots ou de pets.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : wind, flatulence

Expressions courantes : have gas, pass gas, trapped gas, gas pain

feu, brûleur

Partie d’une cuisinière où le combustible brûle sous une casserole.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : burner, gas ring

Expressions courantes : on the gas, light the gas, turn the gas down, turn the gas off

faire le plein, ravitailler

Mettre du carburant dans le réservoir d’un véhicule.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : gas up (We need to gas up before leaving.); gas something up / gas up something (He gassed the car up at the next station.)

Synonymes : refuel, fill up

Expressions courantes : gas up, gas up the car, gas the truck up

gazer

Utiliser du gaz pour empoisonner, tuer ou faire perdre connaissance à quelqu’un.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : gas someone/something (The soldiers were gassed during the attack.)

Expressions courantes : gas someone, gas the pests, gas an animal