Another word for grease
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Noun
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- The oil pressed from peanuts, used for cooking, in soaps, and as a solvent for pharmaceutical preparations.
- The usually pale yellow oil obtained from cottonseed, used in manufacturing, industry, and cooking.
- Oil pressed from olives, used in salad dressings, for cooking, as an ingredient in cosmetics, and as an emollient.
- A salve for soothing or healing; an ointment.
- An analgesic or medicinal ointment.
- Something that soothes or consoles; a balm:
- Flattery or commendation.
- A substance, such as grease or oil, that reduces friction when applied as a surface coating to moving parts.
- A slippery liquid, gel, or oil that is used to reduce friction on or soreness of body tissue.
- One that facilitates conversation or cooperation:
- The ester of glycerol and one, two, or three fatty acids.
- Any of various soft, solid, or semisolid organic compounds constituting the esters of glycerol and fatty acids and their associated organic groups.
- A mixture of such compounds occurring widely in organic tissue, especially in the adipose tissue of animals and in the seeds, nuts, and fruits of plants.
- Any of various natural, oily or greasy heat-sensitive substances, consisting of hydrocarbons or esters of fatty acids that are insoluble in water but soluble in nonpolar organic solvents.
- Beeswax.
- Earwax.
- Any of numerous mineral, vegetable, or synthetic substances or animal or vegetable fats that are generally slippery, combustible, viscous, liquid or liquefiable at room temperatures, soluble in various organic solvents such as ether but not in water, and used in a great variety of products, especially lubricants and fuels.
- Petroleum.
- A petroleum derivative, such as a machine oil or lubricant.
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Verb
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- To lubricate (a car's joints, for example).
- A lubricant, such as one applied to machinery:
- A small piece of absorbent material attached to the end of a stick or wire and used for cleansing a surface, applying medicine, or collecting a sample of a substance.
- A sample collected with a swab.
- A sponge or patch of absorbent material used to clean the bore of a firearm or cannon.
- To apply oil, ointment, or a similar substance to.
- To put oil on during a religious ceremony as a sign of sanctification or consecration.
- To choose by or as if by divine intervention.
- A perfumed ointment, especially one used to groom the hair.
- To anoint with pomade.
- To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.
- To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
- To apply with quick or crude strokes:
- The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.
- Any of various substances resembling or containing cream:
- A pale yellow to yellowish white.
- An analgesic or medicinal ointment.
- Something that soothes or consoles; a balm:
- Flattery or commendation.
- To spread or daub (a surface, for example) with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance.
- To apply by spreading or daubing:
- To cause to be blurry or spread in unwanted places:
- To apply a lubricant to or make slippery:
- To facilitate or make easier:
- To cause to feel cheerful and sociable by the consumption of alcohol:
- Any of numerous mineral, vegetable, or synthetic substances or animal or vegetable fats that are generally slippery, combustible, viscous, liquid or liquefiable at room temperatures, soluble in various organic solvents such as ether but not in water, and used in a great variety of products, especially lubricants and fuels.
- Petroleum.
- A petroleum derivative, such as a machine oil or lubricant.
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