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loft(encyclopedia)
loft(2)(dictionary)
loft 1, noun(dictionary)
loft 2, verb(dictionary)
cock-loft(dictionary)
Loft or Lob - Soccer(gambling)
Loft - Golf(gambling)
Strong Loft - Golf(gambling)
Effective Loft - Golf(gambling)

lubrication (sh) and loft(1) (iou)


lubrication (sh)




Introduction of any of various substances between sliding surfaces to reduce wear and friction.

Lubricants may secondarily control corrosion, regulate temperature, electrically insulate, remove contaminants, or damp shock. Prehistoric peoples used mud and reeds to lubricate sledges, timbers, or rocks. Animal fat lubricated the axles of the first wagons and continued in wide use until crude oil became the chief source of lubricants. Crude oil has been the basis of products designed for the specific lubricating needs of automobiles, aircraft, locomotives, turbojets, and all Other power machinery. There are three basic varieties of lubrication: fluid-Film (in which a fluid Film completely separates sliding surfaces), boundary (in which the friction between surfaces is determined by the properties of the surfaces and properties of the lubricant Other than viscosity), and solid (used when liquid lubricants lack adequate resistance to load or temperature extremes). The principal lubricants are liquid, oily materials (petroleum-based or synthetic, and including greases); solids (such as graphite, molybdenum disulfide, soft metals, waxes, and plastics); and gases.


loft(1) (iou)



loft noun. LOE.
[Old Norse lopt air, sky, upper room, from Germanic. Cf. ALOFT, LIFT noun1.]
I. The air, the sky, the upper region. LOE-L16.
Spenser And ever-drizling raine upon the loft.
An upper room, an attic, esp. for storage etc. rather than living accommodation; US any upstairs room. Formerly also, an apartment or room. ME.
hayloft, rood-loft, etc.
Which? The Mansfield's house has..25mm of insulation in the loft.
b. A room over a stable esp. for the storage of hay and straw; a hayloft. M16.
a. A floor or storey in a house. LME-M17.
b. A layer, a stratum. M16-L17.
Orig., a room or gallery at the top of a rood-screen, a rood-loft. Later (now chiefly Scot. in gen. sense) a gallery in a church or public room; spec. an organ-loft. LME.
Thackeray The two schools had their pews in the loft on each side of the organ.
A ceiling. Formerly also, a floor of a room. obsolete exc. Canad. dial. L16.
An upper storey; an upper level in a house. N. Amer. E18.
Chiefly Shipbuilding & Nautical. A large room or gallery where something can be spread out for working on. Chiefly with specifying word. E18.
mould-loft, rigging-loft, sail-loft, etc.
b. A place where sails are made; a sail-loft. M20.
A pigeon-house, a dovecot, (also pigeon-loft). Also collect., the pigeons kept in a loft. M18.
II.
Backward slope in the head of a Golf club. L19.
The action of lofting a ball in Golf etc.; a lofting hit or stroke. L19.
Comb.: loft conversion the alteration of a loft, attic, etc., from storage space into a room suitable for living accommodation.