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oiliness
noun
The quality of being oily.
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Low-fat peanut butter dosed with the peptide rated higher than the undosed version on measures of oiliness, thickness and aftertaste.
Van Helmont was the first to recognize that many reactions produce substances that are, in his words, "far more subtle or fine…than a vapour, mist, or distilled oiliness, although…many times thicker than air".
Oiliness generally connotes relative ability to operate under boundary lubrication conditions.
The most desirable lubricant for a specific use need not necessarily be the oiliest; e.g., long-fibre grease, which is low in oiliness as compared with machine oils, is usually preferable for packing rolling bearings.
There is no formal test for the measurement of oiliness; determination of this factor is chiefly through subjective judgment and experience.
Among the other tools in the facility are a "smell wall", a "taste wall" and an "oiliness table".
At 5am, I ate a bowl of rice topped off with unagi (freshwater eel) at Ciro's, a long-established restaurant in the heart of the market: it may not be not to everybody's taste, as the oiliness of the skin and the fatty nature of the flesh are unusual, but in context it made a perfect breakfast.
When the oiliness of the fish is cut by a squeeze of lemon, there are few finer outdoor meals.
It has the flavor of plastic, yes, but with a nutty oiliness, and then bears a sharper tang of the ammonia cleaner my mother obsessively sprays around our two-bedroom apartment.
It requires you, in sound and gesture, to remain yourself yet become someone other, and that oiliness of identity slips beautifully into our enduring suspicion that movies exist to be believed but not trusted.
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Olay's new 2in1 Hydration products, all targeted at young people, ditch the mineral oil that so frequently causes problems for spot- and oiliness-prone teenage skin, and instead focus on proven hydrating ingredients such as hyaluronic acid.
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