What's the difference between grease and greaser?

Grease


Definition:

  • (n.) Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.
  • (v. t.) To bribe; to corrupt with presents.
  • (v. t.) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
  • (v. t.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trauma to the hand caused by injection of paint or grease solvents results in tissue destruction and later necrosis and fibrosis.
  • (2) For decades it languished all but forgotten, save for Hollywood using its storm drains in films such as Grease and Terminator 2 .
  • (3) The diffuse type was linked to solvents other than benzene and formaldehyde, while the follicular was excessive among workers exposed to oils and greases.
  • (4) If a phrase that expresses a comment about a noun can be omitted without substantially changing the meaning, and if it would be pronounced after a slight pause and with its own intonation contour, then be sure to set it off with commas (or dashes or parentheses): "The Cambridge restaurant, which had failed to clean its grease trap, was infested with roaches."
  • (5) Explants of adult or 10-day-old rat sciatic and optic nerves were implanted as "bridges" through a silicon grease seal in a three-compartment chamber culture system, leading from a narrow center chamber to two adjacent side chambers.
  • (6) Dietary treatments consisted of a steam-rolled, barley-based finishing diet containing 1) no supplemental fat; 2) 4% yellow grease (YG); 3) 4% blended animal-vegetable fat (BVF); 4) 8% YG; 5) 8% BVF or 6) 6% BVF and 2% crude soybean lecithin.
  • (7) For Araldite photoelastic models of an alumina head on a Vitallium spigot, as-cast taper surfaces lubricated with silicone grease gave consistent friction of typically mu = 0.14.
  • (8) The remaining areas of the wounds were covered by antibiotic-impregnated fine-mesh greased gauze.
  • (9) Various types of high-pressure equipment, including airless paint sprayers, hydraulic apparatus and grease guns, are used in industry, in farming and in the home.
  • (10) ); greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell; he is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless.
  • (11) Four complete mixed diets were formulated to contain either 0 or 3.5% added fat (grease) and either 1.6 or 1.7 Mcal NE1 (0, 1.6; 0, 1.7; 3.5, 1.6; and 3.5, 1.7).
  • (12) The clinical diagnosis of penetration of the retrobulbar fat space by the grease and the subsequent accurate drainage of the grease was made possible on the basis of high resolution computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
  • (13) Once neither painfully elitist nor patronisingly populist, Edinburgh in August now threatens to become an oligarchy, a Chipping Norton of the arts, its sluices greased by Foster's lager, rather than by country suppers and police horses.
  • (14) The use of a sterile composite resin syringe and preloaded disposable tip allows delivery of the grease to the splint with minimal chance of bacterial cross contamination to the patient.
  • (15) Using grease seal techniques on rat cerebral cortical slices and on frog hemisected spinal cords, bath applied N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA; 10-160 microM) and quinolinate (0.25-8 mM) induced dose-dependent depolarisations.
  • (16) We have studied the muscarinic agonist induced responses on the guinea-pig superior cervical ganglion in vitro, as recorded from the internal carotid nerve using a grease-gap.
  • (17) You will need : 5cm-strip of waxed paper Small tube of silicone sealant Sharp knife 1) Firstly ensure that the damaged seal is clean, dry and free from grease.
  • (18) Greases, solvents and non-human waste should also be diverted from drains, regular weekly monitoring should occur to monitor water quality and the contractor needs to create a "robust" groundwater monitoring regime.
  • (19) Trichloroethylene has been widely used for the removal of grease in dry cleaning, plate and painting industries, in which approximately 280 thousand workers contact trichloroethylene, for example, in the United States, resulting in acute and chronic poisonings.
  • (20) This possibility was investigated with the use of grease-gap preparations for assaying the depolarizing responses of CA3 and CA1 hippocampal pyramidal cells to amino acid excitants.

Greaser


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.
  • (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although the crystal structure of troponin C is known (Herzberg, O., and James, M. N. G. (1985) Nature 313, 653-659; Sundaralingam, M., Bergstrom, R., Strasburg, G., Rao, S. T., Roychowdhury, P., Greaser, M., and Wang, B. C. (1985) Science 227, 945-948), its structure in solution, particularly under physiological conditions, has not been established.
  • (2) Partial extraction of troponin C (TnC) decreases the Ca2+ sensitivity of tension development in mammalian skinned muscle fibers (Moss, R. L., G. G. Giulian, and M. L. Greaser.
  • (3) The amino acid sequence deduced from this clone matches the previously reported amino acid sequence (Collins, J. H., Greaser, M. L., Potter, J. D., and Horn, M. J.

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