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Definition: Nerve Gas |
Nerve GasNoun1. A toxic war gas that is inhaled or absorbed through the skin and has harmful effects on the nervous and respiratory system. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Military & Defense | Any of various poison gases containing phosphorous that may be absorbed through the skin, as well as by breathing, and that attack the central nervous system to cause extreme weakness or death. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Nerve Gas |
| Specialty definitions using "nerve gas": Functional Disorders. (references) |
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Screenplays | And now Powers is making nerve gas there. (Batman Beyond; writing credit: Hilary Bader; Stan Berkowitz) | |
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George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. |
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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 |
nerve gas | 39 |
sarin nerve gas | 14 |
vx nerve gas | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "nerve gas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gaz innervant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nervengas (nerve gaz). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ideggáz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gas nervino (nerve gaz). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 神経ガス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"けいガス. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ervenay asgay revigorar (freshen, invigorate, pep talk, refresh, restore). (various references) gas nervioso (nerve gaz). (various references) nervgas (nerve gaz). (various references) แก๊ซพิษที่ใช้ในสงคราม ทำลายระบบประสาทส่วนกลาง. (various references) sinir gazı (nerve agent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: avengers, engraves. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-n-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: avenger, avenges, engrave, enrages, genevas, greaves. | |
-2 letters: agenes, agrees, angers, avenge, averse, eagers, eagres, enrage, ganevs, genera, geneva, genres, graven, graves, grease, greave, greens, nerves, ragees, ranees, ranges, ravens, reaves, regave, sanger, senega, veenas, vegans, venges, verges. | |
-3 letters: agene, agers, agree, anger, avens, avers, eager, eagre, earns, eaves, egers, erase, ernes, evens, ganev, gears, genes, genre, gnars, grans, grave, green, grees, nares, naves, nears, nerve, never, neves, ragee, rages, ranee, range, raven, raves, reave, reges, regna, sager, saner, saree, sarge, saver, serge, serve, seven, sever, snare, sneer, vanes, vangs, veena, veers, vegan, venae, venge, verge, verse. | |
-4 letters: agee, ager, ages, anes, ares, arse, aver, aves, earn, ears, ease, eave, eger, engs, eras, ergs, erne, erns, even, ever, eves, gaen, gaes, gane, gars, gave, gear, gees, gene, gens, gnar, gran, gree, nags, nave, near, neve, rage, rags, rang, rase, rave, rees, regs, revs, sage, sane, sang, save, sear, seen, seer, sene, sera, sere, snag, vane, vang, vans, vars, vase, veer, vees, vena, vera. | |
-5 letters: age, ane, are, ars, ave, ear, eng, ens, era, ere, erg, ern, ers, eve, gae, gan, gar, gas, gee, gen, nae, nag, nee, rag, ran, ras, ree, reg, res, rev, sae, sag, sea, see, seg, sen, ser, van, var, vas, vee, veg. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-n-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: engravers, graveness, scavenger. | |
+2 letters: grapevines, gravestone, grievances, reengraves, scavengers, vernissage. | |
+3 letters: averageness, changeovers, everlasting, governances, gravenesses, gravestones, overmanages, ravagements, shivareeing, vegetarians, vernissages. | |
+4 letters: asseverating, everlastings, eviscerating, governorates, noncoverages, overarranges, overgarments, oversanguine, seronegative, unaggressive, venographies, vinaigrettes. | |
+5 letters: aggrievements, averagenesses, eavesdropping, everlastingly, extravagances, galvanometers, nonaggressive, overasserting, overeagerness, overmastering, overorganizes, overspreading, perseverating, photoengraves, reinvestigate, reinvigorates, revegetations, transgressive, vegetarianism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 72 76 65 47 61 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000111 01100001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e r v e   G a s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0072 0076 0065 0047 0061 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48718488712416785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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