oil
/ˈɔɪl/
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Definitions
Noun
a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
Noun
oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist
Noun
a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
Noun
any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
Verb
cover with oil, as if by rubbing; "oil the wooden surface"
Verb
administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
Synonyms
anele
anoint
crude
crude oil
embrocate
fossil oil
inunct
oil color
oil colour
petroleum
rock oil
vegetable oil
More Specific Terms
almond oil
animal oil
babacu oil
babassu oil
calamus oil
camphor oil
canola
canola oil
chaulmoogra oil
Chinese wood oil
coconut oil
cohune fat
cohune oil
cohune-nut oil
colza oil
cooking oil
copra oil
corn oil
cottonseed oil
croton oil
crude
crude oil
drying oil
essential oil
expressed almond oil
fatty oil
fixed oil
flaxseed oil
fossil oil
fuel oil
fusel oil
grease
groundnut oil
heating oil
hedeoma oil
hydnocarpus oil
hyssop oil
lemon grass
lemongrass
lemongrass oil
linseed oil
lubricating oil
madia oil
mineral oil
motor oil
mustard oil
neroli oil
oil
olive oil
palm oil
peanut oil
pennyroyal oil
petroleum
rape oil
rapeseed oil
resid
residual oil
rock oil
safflower oil
salad oil
sassafras oil
sesame oil
shale oil
soyabean oil
soybean oil
spike lavender oil
spike oil
stand oil
sunflower oil
sunflower-seed oil
sweet almond oil
sweet oil
tall oil
tung oil
volatile oil
walnut oil