• (by ellipsis) Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".
preposition
• On account of, because of.
conjunction
• By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.
• As is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that.
• (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day
• any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
• elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
• Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (or appellant or the like), and the second indicates the defendant (or respondent or the like).
• Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly.
• A chemical element or compound in such a state.
• A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
• A hob on a gas cooker.
• Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
• A humorous or entertaining event or person.
• Frothy talk; chatter.
• A fastball.
• Arterial or venous blood gas.
• Marijuana, typically of high quality.
• Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
• Gas pedal.
verb
• To kill with poisonous gas.
• To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.
• To impose upon by talking boastfully.
• To emit gas.
• To impregnate with gas.
• To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
• To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
• (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein
• a harmful or corrupting agency
• a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
• (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
• The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
• (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
• (relative) (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
• Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
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