Definitions for Grease
gris; gris, grizgrease

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grease, lubricating oilnoun

   a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)

2. dirt, filth, grime, soil, stain, grease, grungeverb

   the state of being covered with unclean things

3. greaseverb

   lubricate with grease

   "grease the wheels"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. greasenoun

   Animal fat in a melted or soft state

2. greasenoun

   Any oily or fatty matter.

3. greasenoun

   Shorn but not yet cleansed wool

4. greasenoun

   Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.

5. greaseverb

   To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.

6. greaseverb

   To bribe.

7. greaseverb

   To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.

   To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.

8. greaseverb

   To kill, murder.

   Fatcats who can't be greased by the mob's money are greased the hard way.

9. Etymology: From grece, from graisse, from crassus.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GREASEnoun

   Etymology: graisse, French.

   1. The soft part of the fat; the oily or unctuous part of animals.

   Grease, that’s sweaten
   From the murth’rer’s gibbet, throw
   Into the flame. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   To take out a spot of grease they use a coal upon brown paper. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   Thou hop’st, with sacrifice of oxen slain,
   To compass wealth, and bribe the god of gain
   To give thee flocks and herds, with large increase;
   Fool! to expect them from a bullock’s grease. John Dryden, Juv.

   A girdle, foul with grease, binds his obscene attire. Dryd.

   2. [In horsemanship.] A swelling and gourdiness of the legs, which generally happens to a horse after his journey.

2. To Greaseverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To smear or anoint with grease.2. To bribe; to corrupt with presents.

   Envy not the store
   Of the greas’d advocate that grinds the poor. John Dryden, Pers.

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1. Grease

   Grease is a song written by Barry Gibb and performed by Frankie Valli. "Grease" is the title song for the 1978 musical motion picture Grease, which was based on the stage play of the same name. It sold over seven million copies worldwide and was featured twice on the film's soundtrack, as the first track and reprised as the final track. This track was specifically written for the 1978 musical motion picture and was not used in the stage production of Grease.

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1. grease

   Grease is a thick, oily substance that is typically used to lubricate machinery, engines or other mechanical parts to reduce friction and wear. It is usually made from a combination of oil, soap and other additives to add certain properties such as water resistance or added viscosity.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Greasenoun

   animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind

2. Greasenoun

   an inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences

3. Greaseverb

   to smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon

4. Greaseverb

   to bribe; to corrupt with presents

5. Greaseverb

   to cheat or cozen; to overreach

6. Greaseverb

   to affect (a horse) with grease, the disease

7. Etymology: [OE. grese, grece, F. graisse; akin to gras fat, greasy, fr. LL. grassus thick, fat, gross, L. crassus. Cf. Crass.]

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1. Grease

   Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School, follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love. The score attempts to recreate the sounds of early rock and roll. In its record-breaking original Broadway production, Grease was a raunchy, raw, aggressive, vulgar show. Subsequent productions sanitized it and tamed it down. The show tackles such social issues as teenage pregnancy and gang violence; its themes include love, friendship, teenage rebellion, sexual exploration during adolescence, and, to some extent, class consciousness/class conflict. Grease was first performed in 1971 in the original Kingston Mines Theatre in Chicago, located in an old trolley barn. From there, it has been successful on both stage and screen, but the content has changed drastically and its teenage characters have become less Chicago habitués and more generic. At the time that it closed in 1980, Grease's 3,388-performance run was the longest yet in Broadway history, although it was surpassed by A Chorus Line a few years later. It went on to become a West End hit, a hugely successful film, two popular Broadway revivals in 1994 and 2007, and a staple of regional theatre, summer stock, community theatre, and high school and middle school drama groups. It remains Broadway's fourteenth longest-running show.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grease

   grēs, n. soft thick animal fat: oily matter of any kind: an inflammation in the heels of a horse, marked by swelling, &c.—v.t. (sometimes pron. grēz) to smear with grease, to lubricate—also used figuratively, to cause to go easily: (obs.) to bribe—as in to 'grease the palm.'—adv. Greas′ily.—n. Greas′iness.—adj. Greas′y, of or like grease or oil: smeared with grease: smooth: fat. [O. Fr. gresse, fatness, gras, fat—L. crassus, gross.]

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1. grease

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Anagrams for Grease »

1. agrees

2. eagers

3. eagres

How to pronounce Grease?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Grease in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Grease in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Grease in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Grease in a Sentence

1. Jane Greer:

   Laughing at and appreciating the same comedy is the emotional oil to grease the wheels of a relationship to keep it moving forward, it gives each of you the resilience you need to laugh off the petty and irrelevant things that naturally build up in life and offers more chances to bond intimately on a regular basis.

2. Andrew McCaskill:

   If there is an opportunity where there is already a group or community built into your organization, getting involved and getting access to that community will help grease the wheels of you getting to know more people faster.

3. William James:

   Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

4. Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms:

   Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.

5. Antwon Stephens:

   I think it is going to take a whole lot of elbow grease to keep this movement going strong, but this movement is most powerful because it’s led by students.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Grease
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Grease
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Grease
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Grease
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Grease
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Grease
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Grease