lubricate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
have lubricating properties
the liquid in this can lubricates well
Types & categories
- be hypernym
Related & opposite
- lubrication derivation
- lubricant derivation
Sense 2 verb
apply a lubricant to
lubricate my car
Types & categories
- fill hypernym
Related & opposite
- lubrication derivation
- lubrication derivation
- lubricant derivation
Sense 3 verb
make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant
lubricate the key
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- lubrication derivation
- lubrication derivation
- lubricant derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lubrication |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lubricant |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lubrication |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lubrication |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lubricant |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fill |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lubrication |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lubrication |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lubricant |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |