a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)

A plant cultivated for its edible parts, such as the roots of the beet, the leaves of spinach, the flower buds of broccoli, or the fruit or seeds of certain species, as beans, corn, and squash, A person who has permanently lost consciousness, due to damage to the brain, but remains alive; sometimes continued life requires support by machinery such as breathing tubes. Such a person is said to be in a vegetative state, Any plant, adjective_ a substance resembling tallow, obtained from various plants; as, Chinese vegetable tallow, obtained from the seeds of the tallow tree. Indian vegetable tallow is a name sometimes given to piney tallow, a cottonlike, fibrous material obtained from the coating of the seeds of a Brazilian tree (Chorisia speciosa). It is used for various purposes, as for stuffing cushions, and the like, but is incapable of being spun on account of a want of cohesion among the fibers, papyrine

To replace (a software program) with a more recently released, enhanced version, To improve the quality of (livestock or crops) through breeding, To exchange a possession for one of greater value or quality; trade up, verb_ to improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components, give better travel conditions to, computing to replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name, noun_ the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components), a reservation that is improved, A hardware device that provides greater performance than an earlier model, adverb & adjective_ Uphill

The regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect, as in music, the theater, or athletics, In the design and construction of machinery, the proper adjustment of the parts of any machine so that its operations will follow in a given order to produce a given result, as in the movement of the needle, shuttle, and feed of a sewing-machine in consecutive order, uncountable The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine, verb_ Present participle of time

A small ornamental button mounted on a short post for insertion through an eyelet, as on a dress shirt, Any of various protruding pins or pegs in machinery, used mainly as a support or pivot, A post; an upright prop or support; specifically, one of the small beams or scantlings in a building, of the height of a single story, which, with the laths nailed upon them, form the walls of the different rooms. See cut under siding, transitive verb_ To provide with or construct with studs or a stud, To be scattered over, To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs

A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store, A place for manufacturing or repairing goods or machinery, The industrial arts as a technical science or course of study, intransitive verb_ To visit stores in search of merchandise or bargains ,To look for something with the intention of acquiring it, To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods, verb_ give away information about somebody, do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of, transitive, Internet slang Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph

Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically containing chloroplasts, having cell walls made of cellulose, producing embryos, and lacking the power of locomotion. Plants include trees, bushes, herbs, ferns, mosses, and certain green algae, The buildings, fixtures, and equipment, including machinery, tools, and instruments, necessary for an industrial operation or an institution, A plant having no permanent woody stem; an herb, transitive verb_ To place seeds or young plants in (land); sow, To introduce (an animal) into an area, To fix firmly in the mind; implant

A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal, A machine or device that reduces a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains by crushing, grinding, or pressing, A difficult or laborious series of experiences, intransitive verb_ To produce or process mechanically in a mill, To move around in churning confusion,

The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect, device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function, the technical aspects of doing something

Machines or machine parts considered as a group, A system of related elements that operate in a definable manner, A device or means of achieving or effecting a result