0 to use a substance such as oil to make a machine operate more easily, or to prevent something sticking or rubbing:
1 to put oil or an oily substance on or in something so that its parts move easily:
The northwest was a poor region that produced neither food to sustain the army garrisons nor valuable commodities that could lubricate interregional trade.
The flows which the oil companies call lubricated are wavy core flows, not perfect core-annular flows.
This is experienced as a dry, gritty, ocular irritation and can be accompanied by intermittent watering in an attempt to lubricate the ocular surface.
It includes literal greetings, ' lubricating egos ', deference, politeness, and offering refreshments to those taking part.
This suggests that the fuel depot contains more varied materials such as lubricating engine oil and also possibly grease.
However, their rule has been lubricated by oil wealth.
In this subsection, economic interventionism is justified when it is bound to expand the equality of substantive freedoms in society, and not just lubricate the workings of a market economy.
The latter is characterized as the 'social oil' that lubricates the less dense but more cross-cutting ties, perhaps with work colleagues or acquaintances in a local community.
