Word Meanings - ANTIATTRITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.

Related words: (words related to ANTIATTRITION)

• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• GREASY
  Affected with the disease called grease; as, the heels of a horse. See Grease, n., 2. (more info) 1. Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish. 2. Smeared or defiled with grease. With greasy aprons, rules, and
• LUBRICANT
  Lubricating.
• GREASE COCK; GREASE CUP
  A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator.
• MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• AMBERGREASE
  See AMBERGRIS
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• AFFRICTION
  The act of rubbing against.
• DEMATERIALIZE
  To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.