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Definition: OIL CUP |
OIL CUP1. A cup, or small receptacle, connected with a bearing as a lubricator, and usually provided with a wick, wire, or adjustable valve for regulating the delivery of oil. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | A simple lubricator which comprises at least a small reservoir for the lubricant, a lower portion for fastening it to the part to be lubricated, and a hole in the lower portion through which the fluid can flow out. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: OIL CUP |
| English words defined with "OIL CUP": Oil cock ♦ Siphon cup. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "OIL CUP": boiler-room helper ♦ greaser and oiler ♦ machine hostler ♦ oiler and greaser. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Machines. Filling oil cup. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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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 |
oil cup | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OIL CUP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | smoerekop (grease cup, lubricator, oiler). (various references) | |
Dutch | smeerpot (grease cup, lubricator, oiler). (various references) | |
Finnish | voitelukuppi. (various references) | |
French | graisseur (oiler). (various references) | |
German | Schmiergefäß (grease cup, lubricator, oiler), Öler (licker). (various references) | |
Greek | λιπαντήρας (grease cup, grease injector, lubricator, oiler). (various references) | |
Italian | ingrassatore (fattener). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oilay upcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lubrificador (greaser). (various references) | |
Romanian | ungãtor, gresor (greaser, lubricator), cutie de unsoare (axle box). (various references) | |
Spanish | engrasador (nipple, oiler), aceitera (oilcan, oiler). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | резервуар для олії, маслянка (buttermilk, grease box, oiler, oil-filler). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: oilcup, upcoil. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-l-o-p-u" | |
-1 letter: oculi, picul, poilu. | |
-2 letters: clip, clop, coil, coup, loci, loup, puli. | |
-3 letters: col, cop, cup, lip, lop, oil, pic, piu, poi, pol, pul, upo. | |
-4 letters: li, lo, op, pi, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-l-o-p-u" | |
+1 letter: oilcups, upcoils. | |
+2 letters: clupeoid, coupling, croupily, pachouli, plutonic, polyuric, poultice, pulmonic, upcoiled. | |
+3 letters: clupeoids, copiously, copublish, couplings, cupolaing, multicopy, nonpublic, octupling, pachoulis, patchouli, poulticed, poultices, pronuclei, punctilio, supercoil, unpoliced, upcoiling. | |
+4 letters: captiously, compulsion, compulsive, consulship, copulating, copulation, copulative, decoupling, diplodocus, duplicator, leukopenic, lycopodium, opulencies, patchoulis, peculation, pediculous, pleustonic, populistic, portcullis, poulticing, preciously, preclusion, producible, punctilios, recoupling, spaciously, speciously, supercoils, uncoupling. | |
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