gassing
English
Pronunciation
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
gassing
- present participle and gerund of gas
Noun
gassing (usually uncountable, plural gassings)
- Poisoning by noxious gas.
- The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
- (manufacturing) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
- Any similar process of singeing.
- (slang) boasting; insincere or empty talk
- 1940, Christina Stead, The Man who Loved Children:
- He bent over her shoulder and read, Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, I can't stand your gassing, oh, what a windbag, what will shut you up, shut up, shut up. And so ad infinitum. He was terribly hurt.
Derived terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gassing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Makasar
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-South Sulawesi *kɨssiŋ (“good”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡasːiŋ/
- Hyphenation: gas‧sing
Adjective
gassing (Lontara spelling ᨁᨔᨗ)
Adverb
gassing (Lontara spelling ᨁᨔᨗ)
- quite often, frequently
- Gassintonjaʼ mange riballaʼna
- I visit his home quite often
- Gassingko bedeng siagàng aʼlampa
- You go traveling with him frequently, they say
Derived terms
affixations
- aʼgassing-gassingang
- gassinganngang
- gassìngi
- kagassingang
- pakagassing
- panngassìngi
- papakagassing
compounds
- gauʼ magassing
- tau gassing
Further reading
- Cense, A. A. (1979) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek, 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN