0 animal or vegetable fat that is soft after melting, or more generally, any thick oil-like substance:
3 to make something happen more easily:
Social connections can help grease the way to business deals.
The company's charitable donations helped grease its entry into the world of government contracts.
4 to give someone money secretly so that they will make things happen in the way that you want:
5 to make something happen more easily:
More investment is needed to grease the wheels of reform.
In 1570-1, however, the human subterfuge was replaced by 'a wider, more stereotypical malicious use of poisonous grease by witches ' (p. 149).
The heat and the aridity secured 'a hard, dry and frizzy wool, almost devoid of natural greases'.
The above-ground part of the cylinder was coated with grease to prevent ant access.
If there were such things as essentially invisible people, smearing their faces with opaque grease paint would render them visible.
Leakage between the nozzle and water table was prevented by the use of grease and weights.
The joint between the sections was 36.8 cm above the midsection and was sealed with silicon grease.
This suggests that the fuel depot contains more varied materials such as lubricating engine oil and also possibly grease.
After all, without greasing the official's hand, the litigant would have risked waiting forever to plead his case, still more winning it.
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