Sentence examples for lubricator from inspiring English sources
noun
A device that lubricates, that applies lubricant.
Mineral oil also has a variety of minor industrial uses, including use in hair sprays and as a solvent, lubricator, and insulator.
The former is a promising, though experimental, panacea without any proved applications to dermatology; the latter is a natural lubricator synthesized by the body, which plays a role in cell renewal and may contribute to the growth of tumors, though not, apparently, if you just rub it in.
It went fine, or it went bad, but there is no way to explain to someone 100 miles away a blowout preventer, a lubricator and the tempers of four guys working through a job gone wrong.
A bit more Elijah McCoy (19th-century engineer: revered lubricator of the steam engine) might help.
"He's a classic social lubricator," Joseph O'Neill, another writer who also lives at the Chelsea, said of Mr. Rips.
Sale of the jet turbine lubricator business was part of the divestiture package agreed to by the Exxon Corporation and the Mobil Corporation to get merger approval from the Federal Trade Commission last November.
The Exxon Mobil Corporation said yesterday that it had agreed to sell its jet turbine lubricator business to the Air BP Division of BP Amoco.
Good producers were somehow the lubricators of this system, and its flow of product, and when in 1969 Shivas became a BBC drama producer he was perceived by the management to be a safe and tactful pair of hands.
