Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that lubricates, especially a lubricant.
- noun A device for applying a lubricant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which lubricates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, lubricates.
- noun A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device that
lubricates , that applieslubricant . - noun A person employed to lubricate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery
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Examples
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The "lubricator" now being used on nearly all the railroad engines in the United States was invented by a colored man, Mr.E. McCoy, of Detroit, Michigan.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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(This is done to make certain that no back-fire will occur), then to on lubricator.
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"That Kathy, she's a real social lubricator," Stevie said.
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But still, they've banked on fairly large -- they've always used money as a lubricator of everything.
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Really what you're seeing today, Max, is that this deal that we're seeing today is the lubricator for the deal that we saw made yesterday, when both Porsche and VW announced that they were going to merge under the Volkswagen umbrella to try and create one of the biggest, and possibly soon, the biggest car manufacturing company in the world -- Max.
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In the good old days, when the brethren were united against the Soviet devil, all shared equally in the drug-running trade, under the benevolent eye of that great lubricator of illicit commerce, the CIA.
Addicted to War: America's Brutal Pipe Dream in Afghanistan 2009
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The first words Julian Wainwright ever spoke, according to his father, Richard Wainwright III, graduate of Yale and grand lubricator of the economic machinery, and Constance Wainwright, Wellesley graduate and descendant of a long family of Pennsylvania Republicans.
Archive 2008-12-01 Stephanie 2008
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The first words Julian Wainwright ever spoke, according to his father, Richard Wainwright III, graduate of Yale and grand lubricator of the economic machinery, and Constance Wainwright, Wellesley graduate and descendant of a long family of Pennsylvania Republicans.
A Quiet Little Novel About Life...... Stephanie 2008
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Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.
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Glucosamine is a natural cartilage protector and joint lubricator.
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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