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Definition: GREASING |
GREASINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Grease |
Date "GREASING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: GREASING |
| English words defined with "GREASING": commonplace ♦ humdrum ♦ prosaic ♦ unglamorous, unglamourous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GREASING": BRAKE REPAIRER, RAILROAD ♦ COATER ♦ HAT-FINISHING-MATERIALS PREPARER ♦ LABORER, CAR BARN ♦ PINSETTER-MECHANIC HELPER ♦ unction ♦ WELDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, FRICTION, wool grease olein. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We use the old ones for greasing the stones (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: J.H. Ingraham; A.E. Southon) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Greasing plow point for the winter. Cavalier County, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Oiling and greasing threshing machine near Littlefork, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Greasing a locomotive at the 40th street shops of the C & NW RR. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Thomas Madrigal greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse, Rock Island R.R., Blue Island, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He has to keep greasing the grooves of events continually |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I had the tallow of three hundred cows for greasing my boat, and other uses |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | UNCTION, n. An oiling, or greasing. The rite of extreme unction consists in touching with oil consecrated by a bishop several parts of the body of one engaged in dying. Marbury relates that after the rite had been administered to a certain wicked English nobleman it was discovered that the oil had not been properly consecrated and no other could be obtained. When informed of this the sick man said in anger: "Then I'll be damned if I die!" "My son," said the priest, "this is what we fear." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "GREASING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "GREASING" is used about 11 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 90.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "GREASING": palm greasing. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "GREASING": de-greasing, palm-greasing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
greasing equipment | 3 |
greasing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GREASING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | grasatim (lubrication), lyrësues (grease, greaser, lubricant). (various references) | |
Arabic | تشحيم (lubrication). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смазка (fat, grease, lube, lubricant, lubrication, lubricator, unguent), смазване (jam, lubrication, repression, squelch). (various references) | |
Chinese | 上油 (greased, Oiled, Oiling). (various references) | |
Danish | smøregrav (grease pit, greasing pit). (various references) | |
Dutch | smeerkuil (grease pit, greasing pit). (various references) | |
Finnish | voitelu (anointment, lubrication, oiling), rasvaus (lubrication, oiling). (various references) | |
French | graissage (grease). (various references) | |
German | schmierend (daubing, lubricating, smearing, smeary), fettend, abschmierend. (various references) | |
Greek | τάφρος λίπανσης (grease pit, greasing pit). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמון (lubrication, oiling), סיכ" (anointing, lubrication, oiling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsírzás, zsírozás (lubrication), megvesztegetés (bribe, corruption, dash, payola, subornation). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggemukan (fattening up, lubricating). (various references) | |
Italian | ingrassaggio. (various references) | |
Korean | 기름을 "름 (Oiling). (various references) | |
Manx | smarrey (dubbin, grease, lubricate, lubrication), smarree (greasy, unctuous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easinggray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | untura, lubrificao. (various references) | |
Romanian | gresaj (forced feed lubrication, lubrication). (various references) | |
Russian | смазка (fat, grease, lubricant, lubrication). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podmazivanje (lubrication, oiling). (various references) | |
Spanish | lubricado (grease, lubricated). (various references) | |
Swedish | insmörjning. (various references) | |
Turkish | yağlama (anointment, fattening, incense, lubrication), yağ sürme (unction), yağ sürülme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | змащування (lubrication, oiling), жирування. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự bôi trơn (lubrication). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GREASING": degreasing. (additional references) | |
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"GREASING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gerassi, Gersting, gesangk, gleasing, greading, greasin, greating, Greatrigg, greeking, Greisinger, Griesinger. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GREASING" (pronounced grē"sing) |
| 5 | -r ē" s i ng | decreasing, increasing. |
| 4 | -ē" s i ng | ceasing, leasing, piecing, policing, releasing, subleasing, unceasing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, announcing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piercing, placing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gearings, snaggier. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-i-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ageings, earings, erasing, gainers, gangers, gearing, gingers, granges, naggers, naggier, raggies, reagins, regains, reginas, saggier, searing, serging, seringa, signage, snigger. | |
-2 letters: ageing, aggers, aggies, agings, angers, arisen, arsine, earing, easing, eggars, gaeing, gagers, gainer, ganger, ginger, grains, grange, nagger, raging, ranges, rasing, reagin, regain, regina, reigns, renigs, resign, sagger, sagier, sanger, seggar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-i-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: presaging, restaging, saggering. | |
+2 letters: absterging, aggrandise, aggressing, aggression, cragginess, degreasing, desugaring, engravings, estranging, gatherings, gingersnap, grangerism, gregarines, seignorage, staggering, swaggering. | |
+3 letters: aggrandised, aggrandises, aggrandizes, aggressions, brigandages, caregivings, disagreeing, gangsterish, gangsterism, gingersnaps, glaringness, glengarries, grangerisms, operagoings, reassigning, segregating, segregation, seigniorage, seignorages, strangering, teargassing. | |
+4 letters: aggrandizers, aggregations, allegorising, beggarliness, categorising, cragginesses, disregarding, gangsterisms, garnisheeing, generalising, gingerbreads, graspingness, ingatherings, ingurgitates, organologies, preassigning, safeguarding, segregations, seigniorages, slaughtering, sloganeering, staggeringly, strategizing, swaggeringly, unaggressive. | |
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