grease
US: /ˈɡɹis/
UK: /ɡɹˈiːs/
UK: /ɡɹˈiːs/
English Vietnamese dictionary
grease /gri:s/
- danh từ
- mỡ (của súc vật)
- dầu, mỡ, mỡ, dầu nhờn
- wood in the grease: lông cừu chưa tẩy nhờn
- (thú y học) bệnh thối gót (ngựa)
- (dược học) thuốc mỡ
- in grease; in pride of grease; in prime of grease
- béo giết thịt được rồi
- ngoại động từ
- bôi mỡ, bơm mỡ, xoa mỡ
- (nghĩa bóng) làm cho trơn tru (công việc)
- (thú y học) làm thối gót (ngựa)
- to grease the hand (the fist, the wheels)
- đút lót
- like greased lightning
- (từ lóng) nhanh như chớp
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun [U]
1 any thick OILY substance, especially one that is used to make machines run smoothly: Grease marks can be removed with liquid detergent. + Her hands were covered with oil and grease. + the grease in his hair
See also -
2 animal fat that has been softened by cooking or heating: plates covered with grease + There was a film of grease on the kitchen window.
+ verb [VN] to rub grease or fat on sth: to grease a cake tin / pan
Idioms: grease sb's palm (old-fashioned, informal) to give sb money in order to persuade them to do sth dishonest
Synonym: BRIBE
grease the wheels (AmE) = OIL THE WHEELS
Collocation dictionary
VERB + GREASE
be covered in/with, be smeared in/with
The kitchen surfaces were all smeared with grease.
| dissolve, remove
GREASE + NOUN
mark, spot, stain
PHRASES
a blob/smear of grease
ADV.
well | lightly
Place the cakes on a lightly greased baking tray.
Concise English dictionary
greases|greased|greasinggrɪːs
noun
+a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
+the state of being covered with unclean things
verb
+lubricate with grease
