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elbow grease
Overview of noun elbow-grease
The noun elbow grease has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat -- (use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun elbow-grease
1 sense of elbow grease
Sense 1
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
=> labor, labour, toil
=> work
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun elbow-grease
1 sense of elbow grease
Sense 1
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
=> struggle
=> trouble, difficulty
=> least effort, least resistance
=> strain, straining
=> exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout
=> pull
=> application, diligence
=> overkill
=> supererogation
=> overexertion
=> friction, detrition, rubbing
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun elbow-grease
1 sense of elbow grease
Sense 1
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
=> labor, labour, toil
Antonyms of noun elbow-grease
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Derived Forms of noun elbow-grease
Domain of noun elbow-grease
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Familiarity of noun elbow-grease
elbow grease used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun elbow-grease
1 sense of elbow grease
Sense 1
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
> labor, labour, toil
=> roping
=> corvee
=> drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork
=> effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
=> hunt, hunting
=> hackwork
=> haymaking
=> manual labor, manual labour
=> overwork, overworking
=> slavery
Meronyms of noun elbow-grease
1 sense of elbow grease
Holonyms of noun elbow-grease
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