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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.
Credit is the lubricant that moves the machinery of global commerce.
And 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.
The most common solid employed as a lubricant is graphite, sometimes termed “plumbago” or “black lead.”
The cylinder walls are oiled by the spray of lubricant thrown off the revolving crank-shaft by centrifugal force.
Thus it is actually upon a film of lubricant that a shaft rests, rather than upon the bearing,113 or "box," in which it turns.
Mr. Shenstone recommends a lubricant composed of camphor dissolved in turpentine for general purposes.
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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lubricant, such as: coating, grease, oil, silicone, wax, and null.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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