lubricant

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lubricant

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Etymology

From lubricate +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• (US, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈlubɹəkənt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈluːbɹɪkənt/, /ˈljuːbɹɪkənt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

lubricant (plural lubricants)

1. A substance used to reduce friction between objects or surfaces.
   • 2008 May, Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader, page 101:

     Before you apply the lubricant, be sure the chain gets a good cleaning with a stiff bristle brush and a good rub down in clean rags or shop towels.

   • 2013, John Sandrolini, One for Our Baby:

     She'd come back from the hangar with Clint and some shop towels for Bendix's wound.

   • 2011, Sibtain Hamid, “Food-grade hydraulic fluids”, in George Totten, editor, Handbook of Hydraulic Fluid Technology, 2nd edition, page 915:

     Food-grade lubricants are made for meat and poultry and other food-processing equipment. These lubricants are generally registered with the National Sanitary Foundation (NSF).

2. A personal lubricant.

Synonyms

• lube

Derived terms

• biolubricant
• loob
• lube
• personal lubricant
• social lubricant
• superlubricant

Related terms

• lubricate
• lubrication
• lubricious
• lubricity
• lubricous

Translations

substance used to reduce friction

Arabic: مِزْلَق m (mizlaq) Armenian: քսանյութ (hy) (kʻsanyutʻ), քսուք (hy) (kʻsukʻ) Basque: labaingarri Belarusian: зма́зка f (zmázka), зма́зачны матэрыя́л m (zmázačny materyjál) Bulgarian: сма́зка (bg) f (smázka) Chinese: Mandarin: 潤滑劑 / 润滑剂 (zh) (rùnhuájì), 潤滑油 / 润滑油 (zh) (rùnhuáyóu) Czech: mazivo n, mazadlo (cs) n, lubrikant (cs) m Danish: smøremiddel n Dutch: gel (nl) m, glijmiddel (nl) n Estonian: määrdeaine Finnish: voiteluaine (fi), liukastin, liukaste, liukastusaine, liukuvoide (fi), liukkari (fi) French: lubrifiant (fr) m Galician: lubricante m Georgian: საპოხი (saṗoxi), შესაზეთი (šesazeti), საცხი (sacxi) German: Schmierstoff m, Schmiermittel n, Schmiere (de) f, Gleitmittel n Greek: λιπαντικό (el) n (lipantikó) Hindi: स्नेहक (hi) (snehak) Hungarian: kenőolaj (hu) Icelandic: sleipiefni n Indonesian: pelumas (id) Irish: bealadh m Italian: lubrificante (it) m Japanese: 潤滑剤 (ja) (じゅんかつざい, junkatsuzai), 潤滑油 (ja) (じゅんかつゆ, junkatsuyu) Khmer: ប្រេងរំអិល (preeng rumʼəl) Korean: 윤활제(潤滑劑) (yunhwalje), 윤활유(潤滑油) (yunhwaryu) Latvian: smērviela f Lithuanian: tepalas m Macedonian: мазиво n (mazivo) Malay: pelincir (ms) Marathi: वंगण n (vaṅgaṇ) Navajo: bee nidiltoʼí Norwegian: Bokmål: smøremiddel n Nynorsk: smørjemiddel n Persian: روان‌ساز (fa) (ravân-sâz) Polish: smar (pl) m Portuguese: lubrificante (pt) m Romanian: lubrifiant (ro) m Russian: сма́зка (ru) f (smázka), сма́зочный материа́л m (smázočnyj materiál) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ма̏зӣво n Roman: mȁzīvo (sh) n Slovak: mastivo n, mazadlo n, lubrikant m Slovene: mazivo n Spanish: lubrificante m, lubricante (es) m Swedish: glidmedel (sv) n, smörjmedel (sv) n, glid (sv) n Tagalog: pampadulas, padanlog Thai: สารหล่อลื่น (sǎan-lɔ̀ɔ-lʉ̂ʉn) Turkish: kayganlaştırıcı Ukrainian: масти́ло (uk) n (mastýlo), масти́льний матеріа́л m (mastýlʹnyj materiál) Uzbek: smazka Vietnamese: dầu nhờn

personal lubricant — see personal lubricant

Anagrams

• intraclub

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [lu.βɾiˈkan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [lu.bɾiˈkant]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Adjective

lubricant m or f (masculine and feminine plural lubricants)

1. lubricant, lubricating

   Synonym: lubrificant

Noun

lubricant m (plural lubricants)

1. lubricant

   Synonym: lubrificant

Verb

lubricant

1. gerund of lubricar

Latin

Verb

lūbricant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of lūbricō