lubricating oil

English

Noun

lubricating oil (plural lubricating oils)

  1. An oil for lubrication of engines and other components.
    Hypernyms: oil, lubricant
    Hyponyms: motor oil, engine oil, light oil
    Coordinate terms: heating oil, bunker oil < fuel oil
    • 1955 October, “Main-Line Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 718:
      Safety devices ensure that the engines are automatically shut down in the event of overspeed, low pressure in the lubricating oil system, low cooling-water pressure, or high cooling-water temperature.
    • 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. research laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, page 329:
      Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].

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