different between grease vs degreaser

English

Etymology

From Middle English grece (“grease”), from Anglo-Norman grece, from Old French graisse, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (General American) enPR: gr?s, IPA^(key): /??is/
• (UK) enPR: gr?s, IPA^(key): /??i?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s
• Homophone: Greece

Verb

• (UK) enPR: gr?s, IPA^(key): /??i?s/
• (General American) enPR: gr?s, gr?z, IPA^(key): /??is/, /??iz/
• Rhymes: -i?s (UK, US)
• Rhymes: -i?z (US)

Noun

grease (countable and uncountable, plural greases)

1. Animal fat in a melted or soft state
2. (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
3. Shorn but not yet cleansed wool
4. Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
5. (slang) Bribe money.
   • 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type

     Some of the people I talked to said it could be done—but it would cost big money. More grease than I’d ever dreamed of.

Synonyms

• (animal fat): fat, lard

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

grease (third-person singular simple present greases, present participle greasing, simple past and past participle greased)

1. (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
2. (transitive, informal) To bribe.

   • the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor
3. (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
4. (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.

5. (transitive, slang) To kill, murder.
6. (obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.

   • You have greased him
     For chewing love again in haste

7. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

Synonyms

• (put grease or fat on): lard
• (slang for kill or murder): bump off, hit, whack

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Eagers, Saeger, Seager, aegers, agrees, eagers, eagres, geares, searge, ægers

English

Etymology

degrease +? -er

Noun

degreaser (plural degreasers)

1. An industrial solvent, often containing polyhalogenated hydrocarbons, used to remove grease from mechanical parts.
2. A machine that accomplishes this task.

Translations

Anagrams

• regreased