In order to reduce volume losses of carbon loosener by drag out and evaporation and to afford degreasing properties, a seal was developed while neither the carbon loosener nor the seal alone caused corrosion, together they caused gross corrosion of certain metals, especially zinc and magnesium.
First pull one end of the nail loosener through the free edge of your nail.
It is an excellent climbing penetrant and nut and bolt loosener.
1.1informal A relatively undemanding challenge early in a game or competition, before the participants are fully settled or warmed up.
〈非正式〉（比赛中难度较低，让选手热身的）开场题，热身题
first balls from fast bowlers tend to be just looseners
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Donald's first over was a loosener - ‘not slow but not quick by his standards,’ according to Atherton - but after one ball of his second over, he switched to round the wicket, a sure sign that he was warmed up.
This was a limb loosener for both teams who will certainly have a post-mortem on the game and sort out their future strategies.
Glenn came down the race and bowled a few looseners on the boundary in front of the members, a little ploy the panel interpreted as a device to play havoc with the England openers’ already fragile state of mind.
The opening delivery was a loosener in every sense, pitching halfway down the wicket and spearing down the legside.
He got off to a decent enough start, hitting a couple of sparkling boundaries and exploiting some horrid looseners, but the bowlers took the upper hand in the afternoon session.
Definition of loosener in US English:
loosener
nounˈlo͞os(ə)nərˈlus(ə)nər
1A person or thing that loosens something.
使放松的人（或事）
Example sentencesExamples
First pull one end of the nail loosener through the free edge of your nail.
It is an excellent climbing penetrant and nut and bolt loosener.
In order to reduce volume losses of carbon loosener by drag out and evaporation and to afford degreasing properties, a seal was developed while neither the carbon loosener nor the seal alone caused corrosion, together they caused gross corrosion of certain metals, especially zinc and magnesium.
1.1informal A relatively undemanding challenge early in a game or competition, before the participants are fully settled or warmed up.
〈非正式〉（比赛中难度较低，让选手热身的）开场题，热身题
Example sentencesExamples
Donald's first over was a loosener - ‘not slow but not quick by his standards,’ according to Atherton - but after one ball of his second over, he switched to round the wicket, a sure sign that he was warmed up.
The opening delivery was a loosener in every sense, pitching halfway down the wicket and spearing down the legside.
This was a limb loosener for both teams who will certainly have a post-mortem on the game and sort out their future strategies.
Glenn came down the race and bowled a few looseners on the boundary in front of the members, a little ploy the panel interpreted as a device to play havoc with the England openers’ already fragile state of mind.
He got off to a decent enough start, hitting a couple of sparkling boundaries and exploiting some horrid looseners, but the bowlers took the upper hand in the afternoon session.