lubricant
a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
capable of lubricating; used to lubricate.
Origin of lubricant
1Other words from lubricant
- non·lu·bri·cant, noun
- un·lu·bri·cant, adjective
Words Nearby lubricant
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How to use lubricant in a sentence
When you’re at a wedding reception, alcohol serves as a social lubricant.
I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem - Issue 96: Rewired | Mark MacNamara | February 17, 2021 | NautilusThe sad truth is that harmful content is highly engaging and serves as a lubricant for Facebook’s core business.
Facebook's "Oversight Board" Is a Sham. The Answer to the Capitol Riot Is Regulating Social Media | Maria Ressa | January 28, 2021 | TimeA trick you can easily do to help solve this problem is to add a lubricant to the shovel, which will cause the snow to roll off easily.
Best snow shovel: Clear your driveway fast | PopSci Commerce Team | January 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe lubricants also had to work at both the extreme temperatures reached while traveling at three times the speed of sound, and at lower, cooler speeds.
A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 a half-century ago. This explorer found it. | Sarah Scoles | January 5, 2021 | Popular-ScienceInstead, the center will develop new chemical and catalytic processes for turning the waste from everyday plastics like water bottles into the building blocks for high-value products such as fuels, lubricants, and functional polymers.
Creating new polymers, and upcycling the old ones | Katie McLean | December 18, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
Not hard to imagine what drives this number – money, the ever swelling lubricant of elective office.
A tube of lubricant also flew into the stalls as a duvet was swiftly scooped up.
New York’s Naughtiest Show (Maybe Avoid the Front Row) | Tim Teeman | January 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCredit is the lubricant that moves the machinery of global commerce.
Government Shuts Down and Private Sector Feels the Pain, Too | Daniel Gross | October 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd researchers in Australia are currently working on a study of lubricant use among breast-cancer survivors.
Language like that is a lubricant to the calamity all around us.
The tube should be dipped in warm water just before using: the use of glycerin or other lubricant is undesirable.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe most common solid employed as a lubricant is graphite, sometimes termed “plumbago” or “black lead.”
Aviation Engines | Victor Wilfred PagThe cylinder walls are oiled by the spray of lubricant thrown off the revolving crank-shaft by centrifugal force.
Aviation Engines | Victor Wilfred PagThus it is actually upon a film of lubricant that a shaft rests, rather than upon the bearing,113 or "box," in which it turns.
The Gasoline Motor | Harold Whiting SlausonMr. Shenstone recommends a lubricant composed of camphor dissolved in turpentine for general purposes.
On Laboratory Arts | Richard Threlfall
British Dictionary definitions for lubricant
/ (ˈluːbrɪkənt) /
a lubricating substance, such as oil
serving to lubricate
Origin of lubricant
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