英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈluːbrɪkeɪt/

動詞

lubricate (third-person singular simple present lubricates, present participle lubricating, simple past and past participle lubricated)

1. To make slippery or smooth (normally to minimize friction) by applying a lubricant.

   Synonym: lube

   Hyponyms: lube up; oil, oil up; grease, grease up

   If your bicycle chain is squeaking you should lubricate it.

2. (humorous) To cause someone to become drunk, especially to make them more sociable or talkative.
   • 2021, Robert A. Webster, Fossils:

     They listened with wonder and pride at their album as it played several times throughout the afternoon, with Cosmo lubricating them with beer and whiskey.

   • 2021, Edward Slingerland, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization:

     At Göbekli Tepe, a site in what is now modern-day Turkey we'll talk about more below, hunter-gatherers convened regularly throughout the tenth to eighth millennia BCE to feast on gazelles, build circular structures, and erect enormous T-shaped limestone pillars carved with mysterious pictograms and animal forms–probably all while well-lubricated with beer.

派生語

• lubricant
• lubrication
• lube

関連する語

• lubricity

Further reading

• “lubricate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lubricate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “lubricate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• trabeculi

動詞

lūbricāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of lūbricō