11) bearing. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...bearing, machine part designed to reduce friction between moving parts or to support moving loads. There are two main kinds of bearings: the antifriction type, such...
12) brake, in technology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in technology, device to slow or stop the motion of a mechanism or vehicle. 1 Types Friction BrakesFriction brakes, the most common kind, operate on the principle...
13) rub. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: rubbed, rubˇbing, rubs1. To apply pressure and friction to (a surface). 2. To clean, polish, or manipulate by the application of pressure and friction....
14) grind. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...forms: ground (ground), grindˇing, grinds1a. To crush, pulverize, or reduce to powder by friction, especially by rubbing between two hard surfaces: grind wheat into...
15) Needfire. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Fire obtained by friction. It has been supposed to defeat sorcery, and cure diseases assigned to witchcraft. (Danish, gnide, to rub.) 1...
16) meteorite. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...meteorite, meteor that survives the intense heat of atmospheric friction and reaches the earth's surface. Because of the destructive effects of this friction, only...
17) lubrication. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...introduction of a substance between the contact surfaces of moving parts to reduce friction and to dissipate heat. A lubricant may be oil, grease, graphite, or any...
18) 3258. Alinsky, Saul. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:3258 QUOTATION:Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur...
19) 59363. Thoreau, Henry David. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:59363 QUOTATION:If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth,-certainly...
20) 65149. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:65149 QUOTATION:We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that,...
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