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gas·works

(găs′wûrks′)

pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)

A factory where gas for heating and lighting is produced. Also called gashouse.

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gasworks

(ˈɡæsˌwɜːks)

(Chemical Engineering) (functioning as singular) a plant in which gas, esp coal gas, is made

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gas•works

(ˈgæsˌwɜrks)

n., pl. -works. (used with a sing. v.)

a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to consumers. Also called gashouse.

[1810–20]

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Noun

gasworks - the workplace where coal gas is manufactured

workplace, work - a place where work is done; "he arrived at work early today"

plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

Translations

مصنَع الغاز

plynárna

gasværk

Gaswerk

usine à gaz

gázmûvek

gasveita

officina del gas

gassverk

plynáreň

gazhane

煤气厂

gasworks

[ˈgæswɜːks] NSING or NPL → fábrica f de gas

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gasworks

[ˈgæswɜː^rks] n → usine f à gaz

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

gasworks

n sing or pl → Gaswerk nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gasworks

[ˈgæsˌwɜːks] nsg or npl → impianto di produzione del gas

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

gas

(gӕs) noun

1. a substance like air. Oxygen is a gas.

2. any gas which is used for heating, cooking etc.

3. a gas which is used by dentists as an anaesthetic.

4. a poisonous or irritating gas used in war etc. The police used tear gas to control the riot.

verb – past tense, past participle gassed –

to poison or kill (a person or animal) with gas. He was gassed during World War I.

gaseous (ˈgӕsiəs) adjective

of or like (a) gas. a gaseous substance.

ˈgassy adjective

full of gas. gassy lemonade.

ˈgassiness noun

gas chamber

a room in which people are killed by means of gas. Many people were sent to the gas chamber in World War II.

gas mask

something which is used to cover the face to prevent a person breathing poisonous gas.

gas meter

an instrument which measures the amount of gas which is used.

gasoline, gasolene (ˈgӕsəliːn) noun

(American. also gas) petrol.

gas station

(American) a petrol station.

ˈgasworks noun singular

a place where gas is made. The gasworks is rather an ugly building.

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That was near the bridge that crosses the canal by the gasworks. I fell and lay still.

There was a noise of business from the gasworks, and the electric lamps were all alight.

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Yet for all its effect on Dudley Pickering it might have been a gasworks. He roamed the smooth lawns with Claire, and sat with her on the rustic benches and talked guardedly of lubricating oil.

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To Agatha, whose grandfather had amassed wealth as a proprietor of gasworks

But the gasworks were never forgotten, and when Lady Brandon mentioned, as a piece of delightful news, that she had found out their old school companion, and had asked her to join them, Gertrude was not quite pleased.

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The development comes after it opened a 295-yard extension under Gasworks Bridge, removing the last major obstacle to running trains to Weston Wharf.

Heritage railway extension work on track

TRAFFIC restrictions are to be put in place on a busy city centre street while gasworks are carried out.

Restrictions on street

Gasworks Street will be closed from its junction with St Andrew's Road to its junction with the A62 Leeds Road.

Plea to fans ahead of big Take That stadium gig; TRAVEL ADVICE ISSUED AS CHART-TOPPING BOYBAND PREPARE TO HIT HUDDERSFIELD

One version of it opens with the lyric: "I met my love by the gasworks wall/Dreamed a dream by the old canal."

Gasworks have bitten the dust

A series of severe complications with gasworks on the site have seen its reopening pushed back again and again - and council bosses have now revealed that no traffic will be allowed back on the road until May at the very earliest.

More delays on commuter route

A series of severe complications with gasworks on the site have seen it's reopening pushed back again and again - and council bosses have now revealed that no traffic will be allowed back on the road until May at the very earliest.