Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that lubricates, especially a lubricant.
- n. A device for applying a lubricant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which lubricates. Specifically— A device or contrivance for keeping the rubbing parts of machines, bearings, shafting, etc., supplied with some lubricant to diminish friction. These appliances are made in a great variety of forms, and may be divided into three classes—those for lubricating the cylinders of motors, those for lubricating the axles of cars and road-vehicles, and those for shafting and machinery in general. In all the aim is the same, to furnish a limited but constant supply of the lubricant to the moving parts. See
imperme-ator .
Wiktionary
- n. A device that lubricates, that applies lubricant.
- n. A person employed to lubricate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, lubricates.
- n. A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery
Examples
“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.”
“(This is done to make certain that no back-fire will occur), then to on lubricator.”
“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.”
“That Kathy, she's a real social lubricator," Stevie said.”
“But still, they've banked on fairly large -- they've always used money as a lubricator of everything.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Glucosamine is a natural cartilage protector and joint lubricator.”
“Related Costs: compressed-air dryer, compressed-air lubricator, compressor compressed-air tank, flexible suspension system”
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