Grease vs. Tallow — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Grease and Tallow
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Grease
A thick oily substance, especially as used as a lubricant
Axle grease
Tallow
Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton fat, primarily made up of triglycerides. It is solid at room temperature.
Grease
Animal fat used or produced in cooking
The kitchen walls were black with grease and filth
Tallow
Hard fat obtained from parts of the bodies of cattle or sheep, used in foodstuffs or to make leather dressing, soap, and lubricants, and formerly used to make candles.
Grease
Smear or lubricate with grease
A greased baking sheet
Grease a shallow baking dish
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Tallow
Any of various similar fats, such as those obtained from plants.
Grease
Soft or melted animal fat, especially after rendering.
Tallow
To smear or cover with tallow.
Grease
A thick oil or viscous substance, especially when used as a lubricant.
Tallow
To fatten (animals) in order to obtain tallow.
Grease
The oily substance present in raw wool; suint.
Tallow
A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.
Grease
Raw wool that has not been cleansed of this oily substance.
Tallow
To grease or smear with tallow.
Grease
(Slang) Something, such as money or influence, that facilitates the attainment of an object or a desire
Accepted some grease to fix the outcome of the race.
Tallow
To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
To tallow sheep
Grease
To coat, smear, or soil with grease
Greased the pie pan.
Tallow
The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
Grease
To lubricate with grease.
Tallow
The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.
Grease
To facilitate the progress of.
Tallow
To grease or smear with tallow.
Grease
(Slang) To kill. See Note at greasy.
Tallow
To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.
Grease
Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
Tallow
Obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants
Grease
(by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
Grease
Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
Grease
Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
Grease
(slang) Money.
Grease
(transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
Grease
To bribe. Category:en:Corruption
Grease
To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
Grease
To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
Grease
To kill, murder.
Grease
(obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
Grease
To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
Grease
Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
Grease
An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences.
Grease
To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.
Grease
To bribe; to corrupt with presents.
The greased advocate that grinds the poor.
Grease
To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
Grease
To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
Grease
A thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
Grease
The state of being covered with unclean things
Grease
Lubricate with grease;
Grease the wheels
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