Crossword clues for lubricate
lubricate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lubricate \Lu"bri*cate\, v. t. [L. lubricatus, p. p. of lubricare to lubricate. See Lubric.]
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To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.
--S. Sharp.Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine.
--Young. To apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow.
Hence: To reduce social frictions or difficulties between people, thus making cooperation easier and joint action smoother.
To inebriate by supplying with alcoholic beverages.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "to make slippery or smooth" (especially by the application of an oil), from Latin lubricatus, past participle of lubricare "to make slippery or smooth," from lubricus "slippery" (see lubricant (adj.)). Related: Lubricated; lubricating. Earlier verb was lubrify (1610s), from Medieval Latin lubrificare.
Wiktionary
vb. To make slippery or smooth (normally to minimize friction) by applying a lubricant.
WordNet
v. have lubricating properties; "the liquid in this can lubricates well"
apply a lubricant to; "lubricate my car" [syn: lube]
make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant; "lubricate the key"
Usage examples of "lubricate".
Fifty eggs well fried will yield about five ounces of this oil, which is acrid, and so enduringly liquid that watch-makers use it for lubricating the axles and pivots of their most delicate wheels.
He sniffed the air, the scent a mixture of diesel oil and diesel exhaust from the emergency generator, ozone from the electrical equipment, cooking oil, lubricating oils, and amines from the atmospheric control equipment.
Camelford to get things Dugan urgently needed like distilled water, petrol, cleansing oil, gear and lubricating oils, cotton waste and a firkin of beer.
The words emerged with surprising fluidity, as if some stiff part of her mind had suddenly been tuned and lubricated.
The animal scent of her lubricating juices wafted its way to his nostrils, another instant jerk reminding his penis of the honeypot awaiting its attention.
From the crude oil thus distilled there will be produced something like 10,000,000 gallons of refined burning oil annually, besides crude solid paraffin, and other products, such as naptha and lubricating oils.
There was a scupping sound as he attacked his oat porridge -- a heaping quart of which, lubricated with a lump of oleomargarine the size of a cricket ball, constituted his time-honored breakfast.
Hydrocarbon Oils -- Scotch Shale Oils -- Petroleum -- Vegetable and Animal Oils -- Testing and Adulteration of Oils -- Lubricating Greases -- Lubrication -- Appendices -- Index.
Now you have all been briefed on the importance of keeping your weapons well lubricated and ready for any action flank or rear guard.
The sky was lit at uneven intervals by waste-gas fires, and the air was foul with the stink of petroleum distillates: aviation kerosene, gasoline, diesel fuel, benzine, nitrogen tetroxide for intercontinental missiles, lubricating oils of various grades, and complex petrochemicals identified only by their alphanumeric prefixes.
Inside the box were hundreds of loose condoms in different colors and shapes, lubricated, unlubricated, some of genuine goatskin.
It smelled of lubricating oil, the blood of tyrant lizards with cogs and wheels for teeth, which lay strewn and silent in the dark waiting.
He lubricated the notch with a bit of earwax, and put the rounded end of the spindle into the dish of his fire board, and held the pointed end in the hand socket.
I pulled her against me, slipping easily up into the lubricated heat of her just as Equus came to the door of the smithy.
Very quickly a rough pecking order established itself, lubricated by kicks, punches, hoots, and sly grooming.