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Oil

//ɔɪl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Indonesian countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A township in Perry County, Indiana, United States, named after Oil Creek (Ohio River tributary). countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    Liquid fat. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Abbreviation of oxygen-iodine laser. abbreviation, alt-of
  3. 3
    oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist wordnet
  4. 4
    Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants wordnet
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  1. 6
    Petroleum. countable, uncountable

    "Oil is mostly found in Saudi Arabia and is transported all over the world."

  2. 7
    a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water wordnet
  3. 8
    An oil painting. countable

    "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."

  4. 9
    a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons wordnet
  5. 10
    Oil paint. countable, uncountable

    "I prefer to paint in oil"

Verb
  1. 1
    To lubricate with oil. transitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing wordnet
  3. 3
    To grease with oil for cooking. transitive
  4. 4
    cover with oil, as if by rubbing wordnet
  5. 5
    To fuel with oil. transitive
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  1. 6
    To say in an unctuous manner.

    ""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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English oilen, oylen, from the noun (see above).

Etymology 3

From Indonesian Oil.

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