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Definition: Gas Chamber |
Gas ChamberNoun1. Instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mechanical Engineering | Toroid rubber chamber containing air under pressure in a pneumatic tyre. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Gas ChamberSynonym: death chamber (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Punishment | Execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber. |
Capital punishment; execution; lethal injection; the gas chamber; hanging;Verb: electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines; decapitation, decollation; garrotte, garrotto; crucifixion, impalement; firing squad; martyrdom; auto-da-fe; noyade; happy dispatch. | |
Scourge | Scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate. |
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Screenplays | I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) Won't fit in a gas chamber. (Killdozer; writing credit: Ed MacKillop; Theodore Sturgeon) | |
Lyrics | Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber ("Paradise City"; performing artist: Guns N' Roses) | |
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Expression using "gas chamber": send to the gas chamber. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gas chamber | 113 |
holocaust gas chamber | 11 |
auschwitz gas chamber | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "gas chamber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dhomë gazi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | газова камера. (various references) | |
Czech | plynová komora. (various references) | |
Danish | luftkammer (air cell, air chamber, inner tube, separate combustion chamber, tube), kammer,hvor dyr kommer i kontakt med gassen. (various references) | |
Dutch | ruimte waarin het dier aan het gas wordt blootgesteld, luchtkamer (head space in a bottle of wine, inner tube, tube). (various references) | |
Finnish | kaasukammio. (various references) | |
French | puits de gaz, puits d'anesthésie, chambre air. (various references) | |
German | Schlauch (barrel, channel, doughnut, flexible tube, funnel, funnel column, grind, hose, hosepipe, inner tube, pendant cloud, pipe, skin, sleeving, tornado cloud, trunk, tuba, tube, utrice), Luftschlauch (inner tube, pneumatic tyre, rubber tyre, tube, tyre), Luftkammer (buoyancy tank, head space in a bottle of wine, inner tube, tube), Kammer,in der das Tier dem Gas ausgesetzt wird. (various references) | |
Greek | αεροθάλαμος (air case, air chamber, air house, air supported composite structure, air tank, air vessel, air-bottle pressure dumper, balloon, boat tank, buoyancy tank, inner tube, pneumatically supported composite structure, tube), θάλαμοσ αέριων (gas oven), θάλαμος αερίου. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gázkamra. (various references) | |
Italian | cella nella quale gli animali sono esposti al gas, camera d'aria (air chamber, air vessel, air-bottle pressure dumper, bladder, head space in a bottle of wine, inner tube, tube). (various references) | |
Manx | shamyr ghas. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asgay amberchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galão de gasolina, câmara onde o animal é exposto ao gás, câmara de ar (air bag, air cell, air chamber, curing tube, inner tube, separate combustion chamber, tube). (various references) | |
Russian | газовая камера, душегубка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gasna komora. (various references) | |
Spanish | cámara donde el animal se exponga al gas. (various references) | |
Swedish | gaskammare. (various references) | |
Thai | ห้องอบแก๊ซพิษสำหรับประหารชีวิต. (various references) | |
Turkish | gaz odası. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-g-h-m-r-s" | |
-2 letters: becharms, brechams, chambers, marchesa, megabars. | |
-3 letters: ambages, ambsace, becharm, braches, brahmas, brecham, cambers, cameras, chamber, charges, crambes, grahams, macaber, macabre, marches, megabar, mesarch, sambhar, schmear. | |
-4 letters: abaser, ambage, ambers, amebas, arches, arecas, ashram, baches, barges, basher, braces, brachs, brahma, breach, breams, bregma, cabers, caesar, cagers, camber, camera, casbah, charas, chares, charge, charms, chaser, crambe, creams, embars, eschar, gambas, gambes, gamers, gasher, gerahs, graces, graham, gramas, harems, macers, maches, marges, masher, rehabs, sachem, sambar, samech, scarab, schema, scream, seabag, search, shmear. | |
-5 letters: aargh, abase, abash, abeam, acerb, aches, acmes, acres, agars, agers, aghas, agmas, amahs, amber, ameba, areas, areca, bares, barge, barms, baser, beach, beams, bears, bemas, bergs, berms, brace, brach, braes, brags, brash, bream, caber, cager, cages, camas, cames, carbs, cares, carse, chams, chare, charm, chars, chase, chasm, crabs, crags, crams, crash, cream, embar, escar, gamas, gamba, gambe, gambs, gamer, games, garbs, gears, gerah, germs, grabs, grace, grama, grams, haars, haems, hames, harem, hares, harms, hears, herbs, herma, herms, maars, mabes, macer, maces, mache, machs, mages, march, marcs, mares, marge, marse, marsh, maser, races, ragas, rages, reach, reams, regma, rehab, rheas, saber, sabra, sabre, sacra, sager, samba, sarge, scare, scrag, scram, serac, shame, share, shear, smear. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 73 43 68 61 6D 62 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110011 00100000 01000011 01101000 01100001 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a s   C h a m b e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0073 0043 0068 0061 006D 0062 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416785237746779687184 |
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