Noun: lubricant
| Singular | lubricant |
| Plural | lubricants |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2008 May 26, Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader, page 101:]
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She'd come back from the hangar with Clint and some shop towels for Bendix's wound. [2013, John Sandrolini, One for Our Baby:]
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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). [2011, Sibtain Hamid, “Food-grade hydraulic fluids”, in George Totten, editor, Handbook of Hydraulic Fluid Technology, 2nd edition, page 915:]
Nouns inflected like lubricant
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English lubricate
3. Proto-Indo-European *-onts
4. Latin -ns
5. Latin -āns
6. Old French -antbor.
7. Proto-Indo-European *-onts
8. Proto-Germanic *-ndz
9. Proto-West Germanic *-andī
10. Old English -ende
11. Middle English -ant
12. English -ant
13. English lubricant
14. From lubricate + -ant.
Verbs referencing "lubricant"
Polish Nouns
lubrykant, Czech Nouns
lubrikant.