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Definition: Grease |
GreaseNoun1. A thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery). 2. The state of being covered with unclean things. Verb1. Lubricate with grease; "grease the wheels". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grease" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | Semi-solid or solid lubricant consisting essentially of a stabilized mixture of mineral, fatty or synthetic oil with soaps or other thickeners. It may contain other ingredients. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream you are in grease, is significant of travels being enjoyed with disagreeable but polished strangers. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Mechanical Engineering | A semi-solid form of lubricant composed of emulsified mineral lubricating oil and of soda or lime soap. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A semisolid form of lubricant, composed of emulsified mineral oil and soda or lime soap. Additives may be incorporated for special purposes, for example, colloidal graphite. b. This term should be applied only to fatty or oily matter of animal origin, but mixtures of mineral oil with lime and soda soaps constitute well-known lubricating greases. c. Term used in the flotation process. d. As used in engineering for lubrication or protection of metal surfaces, grease is an emulsified oil or saturated fatty acid combined with a suitable alkaline base to form a soap e. Thick oil f. A solid or semisolid mixture of oil with soap or other filler. (references) |
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Grease is a lubricant of higher viscosity than oil, consisting originally of a calcium, sodium or lithium soap jelly emulsified with mineral oil. Greases are employed where heavy pressures exist, where oil drip from the bearingss is undesirable, and where the motions of the contacting surfaces is discontinuous so that it is difficult to maintain a separating film in the bearing. Grease-lubricated bearings have greater frictional characteristics at the beginning of operation, causing a temperature rise which tends to melt the grease and give the effect of an oil-lubricated bearing. Calcium and sodium base greases are the most commonly used; sodium base greases have higher melting point than calcium base greases but are not resistant to the action of water. Lithium based grease has a drip temperature at 350° to 400°F and it resists moisture hence it is commonly used as lubricant in household products such as garage door openers. Graphite, either by itself or mixed with grease, is also employed as a lubricant. Teflon is added to some greases to improve on the lubricating property. Gear greases consist of rosin oil, thickened with lime and mixed with mineral oil, with some percentage of water. Special purpose greases contain glycerol and sorbitan esters. They are used, for example, in low-temperature conditions.Some silicone-based lubricants are also marketed as grease. Whether they can be classified as grease in the regular sense is uncertain. Silicone grease is an amorphous fumed, silica thickened, polysiloxane-based compound.
Some rendered animal fats are known as greases. Rendered chicken fat becomes the commodity known as yellow grease. Animal greases may have been used as lubricants in the past, but this is not now common in developed nations.
For the musical play Grease, see Grease (musical).
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Grease is the name of a movie based on Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical, Grease.Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers.
The film version was released in 1978, with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as stars. Travolta played Danny and Newton-John played Sandy in the movie. In the summer of 1958, Danny, leader of Rydell Highs boy gang The T-Birds, visits Australia. There, he meets Sandy at the beach and they fall in love. However, with the beginning of a new class semester, Danny must return to the United States. Sandy is portrayed as a typical innocent girl.
Sandy, meanwhile, is chosen to attend Rydell High as an exchange student. She meets a group of girls named the Pink Ladies and makes friends with them quickly. Not realizing their luck, both Danny and Sandy let their friends know of their romantic conquests back in Australia.
Eventually, Danny and Sandy run into each other, and they decide to revive their romance, but not without trouble (such as the scene when Danny tries to have sex with Sandy and she runs out of his car). They are pestered, however, by a gang named The Scorpions, who are enemies of the T-Birds. Danny challenges the leader of The Scorpions to a car race, and then he and his friends build a race car. He goes on to beat the leader of The Scorpions.
Towards the end of the movie, a new, badder looking Sandy emerges, leading into a scene where everyone in school begins dancing after graduation. Danny picks her up in his car, and the car then takes off flying, with Danny and Sandy joined in love forever.
Although Travolta was already famous for his movie Saturday Night Fever, it was Grease that reconfirmed his status as a celebrity. As for Newton-John, her fame also reached new heights after the movie. The movie's soundtrack was a number 1 album at many different countries.
A 1982 sequel, Grease 2, was much less successful.
Cast
- Frankie Avalon, the teen angel
- Sid Caesar, Coach Calhoun
- Stockard Channing, Betty Rizzo
- Annette Charles, Cha Cha DiGregorio
- Jeff Conaway, Kenickie
- Didi Conn, Frenchie
- Eddie Deezen, Eugene
- Lorenzo Lamas, Tom Cushin
- Olivia Newton-John, Sandy Olson
- Dennis Steward, Leo
- Ellen Travolta, waitress
- John Travolta, ''Danny
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Grease is a popular musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. A film version was made in 1978 starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.The musical is based around the some of the subcultures of 1950s high school America, including the "tough guy" working-class greasers from which the musical takes its name. In the film, Travolta played Danny Zucko, who is trying to win the affections of Australian exchange student Sandy (Olivia Newton-John).
The movie version sugar-coated the class aspects of the original, and subsequent stage productions have played down that aspect of the story even further and emphasised the nostalgia aspects. A sequel, "Grease 2" (1982) moved the timeline forward to the early 1960s, and reversed the gender plotline (a male newcomer from England trying to woo the leader of the Pink Ladies), using motorcycles instead of cars.
A more dramatic, harder-edged portrayal of some of the same subcultures (though slightly later) can be found in S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders.
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Synonyms: GreaseSynonyms: dirt (n), filth (n), grime (n), grunge (n), lubricating oil (n), soil (n), stain (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: greased (mechanical engineering). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Veneer, facing; overlay; plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate; engobe; ormolu; Sheffield plate; pavement; coating, paint; varnish; (resin) a; plating, barrel plating, anointing; Verb: enamel; epitaxial deposition, vapor deposition; ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo; cerement; ointment; (grease). |
Friction | Noun: friction, attrition; rubbing, abrasion, scraping. Verb: confrication, detrition, contrition, affriction, abrasion, arrosion, limature, frication, rub; elbow grease; rosin; massage; roughness . |
Giving | Tip, bribe; tickle the palm, grease the palm; offer; sacrifice, immolate. |
Bribe, bait, ground bait; peace offering, handsel; boodle, graft, grease;blat. | |
Lubrication | Verb: lubricate, lubricitate; oil, grease, lather, soap; wax. |
Synovia; glycerine, oil, lubricating oil, grease; saliva; lather. | |
Motive | Tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook. |
Oil | Noun: oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite, amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate |
Payment | Pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing; pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out; cough up, fork over; come down with, come down with the dust; tickle the palm, grease the palm; expend; put down, lay down. |
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Crosswords: Grease |
| English words defined with "grease": Antiattrition, axle grease, Axunge ♦ Begrease ♦ Canada porcupine, Coom ♦ Enlard, Enseam, Erethizon dorsatum ♦ French chalk, fuller's earth ♦ Gome, goose grease, Gorm, Grease bush, greased, grease-gun, greaseproof, Greasing, greasy, gun ♦ lubricated ♦ oily, oleaginous ♦ Saim, sebaceous, slick, SLS, sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium lauryl sulphate, stuff ♦ Tabby moth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grease": ELBOW GREASE ♦ grease cup, GREASE MAKER, GREASE MAKER, HEAD, Grease One's Fist, grease table ♦ Hart of Grease ♦ strontium-base grease, supervisor, grease making, SUPERVISOR, GREASE REFINING ♦ wool grease olein. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "grease": Smalt. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Grease" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (design, embroidery, industry). |
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Screenplays | Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease! (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) So, Putty, you're selling cars now. No more being a grease monkey (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Sometimes when you grease the palm, it makes the fingers slippery (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra) You can't gear a country's economy for war for 20 years, then suddenly slam on the brakes and expect the whole transition to go like grease through a goose (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) If we stop moving stones for every grease woman who falls, the city will not rise (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: J.H. Ingraham; A.E. Southon) | |
Lyrics | Pulling a Harley deep with a jar of grease (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo) Grease don't pop on the stove no more, moved on up (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris) And circle the blue fields and grease the night (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith) | |
Clever | The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Oil and Grease Love (1914) Grease Monkeys (2003) VH-1 Where Are They Now: Grease (1998) Grease 2 (1982) | |
Song Titles | GREASE (performing artist: FRANKIE VALLI) GREASE MEGAMIX (performing artist: J. TRAVOLTA & O. NEWTON JOHN) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Oil field worker applying grease to rotating drill pipe, Kilgore, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Machines. Filling oil cup with grease. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Some things new in grease paint. Miss Grace Wagner, a student at Central High, Wash., D.C. is learning the art of auto mechanics. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Pan" by Päivi Rytivaara Commentary: "Grease on the pan." |
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 | Ding ding; gas station; filling station; gasoline; grease monkey; attendant; mechanic; garage; car; auto; automobile; truck. |
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Henry Wheeler Shaw | The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Hamburger patties splashed and hissed in the grease, and the potatoes bubbled |
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Health | Lubricants grease the stool enabling it to move through the intestine more easily. (references) | |
At mealtime, it is squeezed out of the gallbladder into the bile ducts to reach the intestine and mix with the fat in our food. The bile acids dissolve the fat into the watery contents of the intestine, much like detergents that dissolve grease from a frying pan. After the fat is dissolved, it is digested by enzymes from the pancreas and the lining of the intestine. (references) | ||
Economic History | Turkey | In addition, some types of yellow grease have excellent potential as a feed ingredient, although imports are not yet commonly used for this purpose. (references) |
Trade | Brazil | Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ANOINT, v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good. Judibras |
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Phyllis Diller | When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body, I wear snow chains to hold up my gown. |
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| "Grease" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.03% of the time. "Grease" is used about 381 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.03% | 343 | 15,445 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.25% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.72% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 381 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Grease Monkey Holding Corporation |
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Expressions using "grease": axle grease ♦ Bunsen grease spot photometer ♦ candle grease ♦ Elbow grease ♦ Golden grease ♦ goose grease ♦ grease box ♦ Grease bush ♦ Grease cock ♦ Grease cup ♦ grease gun ♦ grease incinerator ♦ grease lubricant ♦ grease monkey ♦ Grease moth ♦ grease nipple ♦ grease oneself ♦ grease paint ♦ grease smb. palm ♦ grease smb.'s palm ♦ grease spot ♦ grease spot photometer ♦ grease stain ♦ grease the palm ♦ grease the palm of ♦ grease the palm of smb. ♦ Grease wood ♦ hair grease ♦ in grease of pride ♦ in grease of prime ♦ lubricating grease ♦ palm grease ♦ remove a grease stain ♦ remove grease from ♦ spot of grease ♦ To grease in the hand ♦ to grease the hand ♦ to grease the palm of ♦ wool grease ♦ wool grease olein. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "grease": grease-absorbing, grease-ball, grease-blackened, grease-coated, grease-cock, grease-encrusted, grease-fingered, grease-free, grease-gun, grease-infused, grease-laden, grease-monkeying, grease-paint, grease-painting, grease-paints, grease-proof, grease-removing, grease-resistant, grease-shining, grease-smeared, grease-spot, grease-stained, grease-stains, grease-streaked, grease-swabber, grease-wagon. | |
Ending with "grease": bear's-grease, candle-grease, cheese-grease, elbow-grease, goose-grease, high-grease, lizard-grease, non-grease. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
grease | 2,020 | 3 grease movie | 39 |
grease and lyrics | 470 | grease movie picture | 39 |
grease movie | 386 | company grease list | 37 |
grease 2 | 234 | lincoln grease gun | 35 |
grease musical | 206 | grease fitting | 35 |
grease trap | 178 | 2 grease lyrics | 35 |
grease monkey | 141 | grease importer | 34 |
grease soundtrack | 138 | grease remover | 31 |
grease gun | 109 | grease broadway | 31 |
grease picture | 85 | grease pump | 30 |
grease 3 | 73 | grease removing | 28 |
agriculture grease | 70 | grease lightning lyrics | 28 |
grease soundtrack lyrics | 59 | grease john travolta | 27 |
grease song lyrics | 57 | grease music | 27 |
grease photo | 53 | grease high vacuum | 25 |
grease interceptor | 52 | cast grease | 25 |
grease song | 47 | silicone grease | 25 |
grease lightning | 45 | grease costume | 24 |
grease script | 44 | grease movie lyrics | 24 |
grease stain | 39 | grease play | 23 |
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| Language | Translations for "grease"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vet (fat, fatty, greasy). (various references) | |
Albanian | graso (dope), grasatoj (lubricate), yndyrë (fat, tallow), lyrësues (greaser, greasing, lubricant), lyrësoj (lubricate), lyrë, lyej me yndyrë, lubrifikoj (lubricate), lesh i palarë, jap ryshfet (graft, grease smb.'s palm, grease the palm), dhjamë (fat, hernia, render, rupture, tallow). (various references) | |
Arabic | دهْن (oil, paint), مادة زيتية, زيت (lubricate, oil), الشحم, أزال الشحم (skim, slime), شحم (fat, flab, lard, lubricate, oil, palm), دهن (butter, fat, lipid, oil, paint, plaster, render, rub in, shortening, smear). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | намазвам (anoint, embrocate, paint, smarm, smear), подкупвам (bribe, buy, buy over, corrupt, disarm, fix up, get at, hand out bribes, lubricate, suborn), мажа (daub, dub, paint, smear, spread), мазнина (fat, richness), мас (unguent), мас на дивеч, подкуп (boodle, bribe, drop, fix, graft, hush money, oil, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, payola, refresher, subornation, sugarplum, sweetener, vail), мокър лишей, улеснявам (facilitate, favour, settle, smooth, tide), непрана вълна, грес (fat), серива вълна, серей (yolk), смазвам (bow down, jam, lubricate, mop up, oil, overbear, overwhelm, prostrate, pulverize, slush, smash, smear, squelch, steamroller, tread down, tread under, unstring, weigh down, whelm), смазка (fat, greasing, lube, lubricant, lubrication, lubricator, unguent), масло (butter). (various references) | |
Chinese | 油膏, 油脂 (fat, oil). (various references) | |
Czech | zamazat (begrime, daub, mess up, smudge), tuk (fat, fat on soup), sádlo (lard), podplatit (bribe, buy, corrupt, grease smb.'s palm, grease the palm of), omastek, namazat (spread), mazadlo (lubricant). (various references) | |
Danish | fedt (fat). (various references) | |
Dutch | invetten. (various references) | |
Esperanto | graso (fat), grasi. (various references) | |
Farsi | مداهنه (Blarney, Unction), چاپلوسی (Blarney, Cajole, Flattery, Subservience), چربی (Fat, Oil), چرب کردن (Dub, Liquor, Lubricate), گریس , روغن زدن , روغن اتومبیل , روغن (Butter, Lubricant, Oil, Ointment, Unction, Unguent), رشوه دادن (Bribe, Palm, Tamper). (various references) | |
Finnish | voiteluaine (lubricant), voidella (anoint, lubricate, oil, smear, spread, wax), rasvata (lubricate, oil, smear), rasva (fat, lubricating grease). (various references) | |
French | graisse (greasiness). (various references) | |
Frisian | fet (fat, fatty, greasy). (various references) | |
German | Fett (adipose, bold, fat, fatty, greasy, heavily, heavy, lucrative, luxuriant, obese, porkily, porky, rich, shortening), schmieren (anoint, butter, daub, give bribes, goos, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, lubrication, oil, rub in, scrawl, slosh, smear, spread, Square, tallow, to daub, to smear), schmierfett (grease lubricant, lubricating grease), Schmiere (barnstormers, flea pit, goo, lubricant, mud, ointment, paint, spread), fetten. (various references) | |
Greek | γράσο (lubricant), λιπαντικό (lubricant). (various references) | |
Hebrew | למשוח (anoint, consecrate, paint, smear), לשמן (oil), לגרז (mortise), לסוך (anoint, lubricate, oil, smear), שומן (fat, fatness, lard), פדר (fat, suet), גריז. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsír (dripping, fat, fats, lard), zsiradék (fat, fats, slush). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gemuk (buxom, corpulent, fat, fertiliser, plumpy, rich, stout, thick), menggemuki (lubricate), melumasi (embrocate, smear), lumas. (various references) | |
Irish | ramhar (fat). (various references) | |
Italian | grasso (fat, fatty, fleshy, greasy, gross, obese, pursy, tubby), ingrassare (batten, fatten, goos, lubricate, make fat, put on weight, smear). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 脂肪 (blubber, fat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しぼう (ambition, blubber, death, desire, fat, mortality, ovary, wish), グリース , グリス . (various references) | |
Korean | 윤활제. (various references) | |
Manx | smarrey (dubbin, greasing, lubricate, lubrication), saill (dross), sahll (adipose tissue, fat, saim, white flesh). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fett (fat). (various references) | |
Papiamen | vèt (fat, fatty, greasy), sebu (fat). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easegray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gordura (blubber, embonpoint, fat, grape, lard, obesity, rotundity, shortening), untar (anoint, oil, salve, smear, spread), massa lubrificante (grape, slush), lubrificar (lubricate, oil), graxa (fat, grape, lipsalve, polish, sawder, shoe polish, wax). (various references) | |
Romanian | gresa (lubricate, oil, smear, tallow), grãsime (corpulence, fat, fatness, flesh, rotundity, stoutness, tallow), vaselinã de gresaj, unturã (blubber, fat, lard), unsoare (fat, lubricant, salve, slush, tallow), unge (anoint, besmear, coat, dab, daub, dope, dub, embrocate, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, nobble, oil, oil smb.'s palms, palm, pomade, salve, smear, soap, whitewash), slãninã (bacon, fat), pãta cu grãsime, osânzã (fat), lubrifia (lubricate, oil), freca (chafe, contuse, fret, grate, rub, rub on, rub over, scrub, slate). (various references) | |
Russian | смазывать жиром/ жир, смазывать жиром (liquor), смазывать (anoint, blur, lubricate, lubricated, oil, salve, smear), смазка (fat, greasing, lubricant, lubrication), смазочное вещество, смазать (lubricate, oil), сало топленое, сало (axunge, cake ice, fat, lard, suint, tallow), густая смазка (dope), мокрец (grapes), жир (fat, lard, shortener, shortening, stuff, tallow). (various references) | |
Scottish | geir (suet, tallow), créis. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | salo (lard, speck, suet), premazati (bespread, coat, daub, ice, paint out, paint over, smear), podmazati (lubricate, oil), omastiti, mazivo (dope, fat, lubricant, train oil), mast (fat, lard, ointment, unguent). (various references) | |
Spanish | grasa (fat), engrasar (oil). (various references) | |
Sranan | fatu (bold, corpulent, fat, thick). (various references) | |
Swahili | grisi (fat). (various references) | |
Swedish | fett (dripping, fat, lard, lubricant, oil, shortening), smet (batter, daub, paste, sludge), smörja (anoint, bilge, corn, crap, daub, dirt, dope, drivel, dub, fiddlededee, junk, kitsch, lubricate, muck, oil, rubbish, shoddy, smear, tosh, trash, tripe), flott (classy, dashing, dripping, high, lard, lardy, plush, posh, slap up, slap-up, slick, smart, spanking, stylish, swanky). (various references) | |
Thai | หยอดน้ำมัน, จาระบี. (various references) | |
Turkish | gres, yağlamak (anoint, baste, incense, lubricate, oil, slush), yağ sürmek (baste), yağ (adipose, fat, oil, slush, tallow), rüşvet vermek (bribe, corrupt, cross smb.'s hand, fix, give a bribe, graft, grease smb.'s palm, grease the palm, oil one's hand, oil one's palm, oil smb.'s palm), para yedirmek (bribe, grease smb.'s palm, grease the palm, Square), makine yağı (lube oil, lubricating oil, slush), içyağı (fat, suet). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яaglamak (oil), яag. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смалець (fleck, lard), мастити (lubricate, oil), мастило (lubricant, oil), замаслювати. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mỡ. (various references) | |
Welsh | saim, iro (anoint, baste, rub, smear), iraid, blonegen (lard), bloneg (lard). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adeps, adipe, adipem, adipemque, adipes, adipibus, adipum, arvina, arvinam, arvinulis, crassus, sebum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ûthem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grease": greaseball, greaseballs, greased, greaseless, greasepaint, greasepaints, greaseproof, greaseproofs, greaser, greasers, greases, greasewood, greasewoods. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "grease": degrease. (additional references) | |
Words containing "grease": degreased, degreaser, degreasers, degreases. (additional references) | |
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"Grease" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: erease, Garesse, geace, gease, Gerace, gerade, geras, Gerassi, glease, Graecae, Graece, graeci, graise, grasa, greame, Greamsee, Greaney, greas, greasey, greasie, greate, greatey, greeke, greese, greeze, greige, greisa, greize, grese, Greussen, groase, Grzesik, trease, urease. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grease" (pronounced grē"s) |
| 3 | -r ē" s | caprice, crease, decrease, increase. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: agrees, eagers, eagres, ragees. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-r-s" | |
-1 letter: agers, agree, eager, eagre, egers, erase, gears, grees, ragee, rages, reges, sager, saree, sarge, serge. | |
-2 letters: agee, ager, ages, ares, arse, ears, ease, eger, eras, ergs, gaes, gars, gear, gees, gree, rage, rags, rase, rees, regs, sage, sear, seer, sera, sere. | |
-3 letters: age, are, ars, ear, era, ere, erg, ers, gae, gar, gas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-r-s" | |
+1 letter: bareges, bargees, dragees, enrages, ergates, galeres, greased, greaser, greases, greaves, jaegers, presage, raggees, regales, regears, reggaes, restage, serfage. | |
+2 letters: absterge, acreages, aerogels, allegers, anergies, asperges, auberges, avengers, averages, brewages, degasser, degrades, degrease, deranges, disagree, dressage, eagerest, eelgrass, engagers, engraves, enlarges, estrange, etageres, gamester, gaselier, gearcase, gearless, generals, gerberas, gesneria, gheraoes, gleamers, gleaners, grandees, grantees, greasers, greasier, greatens, greatest, grenades, herbages, largesse, leaguers, negaters, overages, peerages, presaged, presager, presages, pugarees, ragweeds, reagents, reargues, regalers, regauges, reglazes, regrades, regrates, reimages, restaged, restages, saggered, sangaree, serfages, sergeant, sewerage, shagreen, steerage, wagerers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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