oil
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English oyle, oile (“olive oil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman olie, from Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Compare Proto-Slavic *lojь. More at olive. Doublet of oleum. Supplanted Middle English ele (“oil”), from Old English ele (“oil”), also from Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: oils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oyl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: oils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oiled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: oyl
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Liquid fat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Petroleum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Oil is found in countries such as Saudi Arabia and is transported all over the world.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
gloss: An oil painting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Yet, in another way, I was unable to put Picasso's oils in the same class as Cezanne's, or even (which will no doubt shock many readers) as Renoir's.
gloss: Oil paint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I prefer to paint in oil
gloss: To lubricate with oil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
Platform faces in Holland are further back from the track than they are in Britain, and it is a common thing to see a driver standing quite comfortably between his engine and the platform while oiling the motion.
The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
gloss: To grease with oil for cooking.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fuel with oil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To say in an unctuous manner.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
examples: "Do you need a drink?" oils Robert Ryan to the disinterested Stanwyck in Clash By Night; "Let's say that's what I need," she sneers back.
Derived words: abrasin oil
absinthe oil
add oil
almond oil
Athabasca oil sands
avocado oil
baby oil
banana oil
bean oil
beard oil
beech oil
ben oil
big oil
bio-oil
birch oil
bone oil
bromoil
bronzing oil
bunker oil
burn the midnight oil
butteroil
butter oil
cajuput oil
camelina oil
Candy oil
canola oil
carap oil
carbon oil
carrier oil
Carron oil
cast oil on troubled waters
castor-oil
castor oil
castor oil plant
chili oil
citronella oil
coal oil
coconut oil
cod-liver oil
cod liver oil
codliver oil
colza oil
concrete oil of wine
cooking oil
coquito oil
corn oil
cost oil
cottonseed oil
crab oil
croton oil
crude oil
Danish oil
dead oil
deoil
dinkum oil
dino oil
dinosaur oil
Dippel's oil
drying oil
earth oil
engine oil
enoil
enoiling
essential oil
ethiodized oil
eucalyptus oil
evening primrose oil
false flax oil
fatty oil
fish oil
fixed oil
flaxseed oil
fog oil
fork oil
fossil oil
fuel oil
fusel oil
gas oil
gear oil
good oil
gorli oil
grapeseed oil
grass oil
green oil
gutter oil
hair oil
haliver oil
hash oil
heating oil
honey oil
hydraulic oil
illuminating oil
immersion oil
infused oil
joint oil
juniper oil
kekune oil
kikuel oil
Koeme oil
lamp oil
lamp-oil
laxative oil
light oil
linseed oil
lubricating oil
macassar oil
Malabar oil
margosa oil
midnight oil
mineral oil
mink oil
mirbane oil
motor oil
mustard oil
neck oil
neem oil
nonoil
North Sea oil
oilable
oil and water
oil and water don't mix
oil baron
oil barrel
oilbath
oil bath
oil beetle
oilberg
oilbird
oilbox
oil bug
oil burner
oil burner route
oil-burning
oil cake
oilcake
oilcan
oil can
oil-canning
oil change
oilcloth
oilcoat
oil company
oilcrop
oilcup
oil diaper
oil-digger
oildom
oil-down
oil down
oil drum
oiler
oil field
oil filter
oil-fired
oil firing
oilfish
oilgae
oil gas
Oilgate
oil green
oil heater
oiligarch
oiligarchy
oilionaire
oilish
Oil Islands
oil lamp
oilless
oillike
oil-lit
oilman
oil mill
oilmonger
oilnut
oilocracy
oil of brick
oil of bricks
oil of lemon eucalyptus
oil of mirbane
oil of myrbane
oil of olives
oil of palm
oil of petre
oil of spike
oil of talc
oil of tartar
oil of tartar per deliquium
oil of turpentine
oil of vitriol
oil of wine
oil of wintergreen
oilometer
oil opera
oil paint
oil painting
oil palm
oil pan
oilpaper
oilpatch
oil-patch
oil patch
oil pipeline
oil platform
oilpresser
oilpressing
oilproof
oil pull
oil pulling
oil radish
oil rain lamp
oil refinery
oil refining
oil reservoir
oil-rich
oilrig
oil rig
oil sand
oilseed
oil-seed camellia
oil shale
oilskin
oil slick
oilsmoke
oil spill
oil spot
oil spotting
oilstone
oil stove
oilstove
oil swishing
oil tanker
oil terminal
oil test
oiltight
oil trash
oil tycoon
oil up
oilway
oil well
oilworks
oily
oiticica oil
old-oil
oleo oil
olive oil
olive pomace oil
ore-bulk-oil carrier
palm kernel oil
palm-oil
palm oil
paraffin oil
peak oil
peanut oil
penetrating oil
peppermint oil
petre oil
petroil
phulwara oil
pine oil
pinhoen oil
pongamia oil
poonga oil
poppyseed oil
potato oil
pour oil on troubled waters
preen oil
process oil
pulza oil
rape oil
rapeseed oil
ricinus oil
rind oil spot
rind-oil spot
rock oil
roosa oil
rose oil
rubbing oil
Russia oil
salad-oil
salad oil
seed oil
Seneca oil
sesame oil
shale oil
shaving oil
smooth as oil
snake oil
snake oil salesman
solar oil
soyabean oil
soybean oil
soyoil
space oil
sperm oil
sperm whale oil
spike oil
stomach oil
stone oil
storm oil
strap oil
strike oil
sump oil
sunflower oil
sun oil
suntan oil
sweet oil
take your oil
tall oil
teak oil
tea oil
tea oil camellia
tea oil plant
tea tree oil
the squeaky wheel gets the oil
tied oil
tight oil
toxic oil syndrome
tractor vaporising oil
train oil
transmission oil
truffle oil
tung oil
tung oil tree
valve oil
vegetable oil
virgin oil
virgin olive oil
whale oil
wood oil
wood-oil
wool oil
worm oil
zdravets oil
reoil
self-oiling
squeaky wheels get oiled
unoil
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