Oil

Noun

 * 1) Liquid fat.
 * 2) Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
 * 3) An oil painting.
 * 4) * 1973, John Ulric Nef, Search for meaning: the autobiography of a nonconformist (page 89)
 * 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.

Derived terms

 * burn the midnight oil
 * castor oil
 * cod liver oil
 * cottonseed oil
 * croton oil
 * crude oil
 * essential oil
 * evening primrose oil
 * gorli oil
 * grapeseed oil
 * mineral oil
 * motor oil


 * mustard oil
 * neck oil
 * North Sea oil
 * oil baron
 * oil field
 * oilman
 * oil paint
 * oil painting
 * oil refinery
 * oil sand
 * oil shale


 * oilskin
 * oilsmoke
 * oil stove
 * oil tanker
 * oil well
 * oily
 * olive oil
 * peak oil
 * pine oil
 * pour oil on troubled waters
 * rape oil


 * rapeseed oil
 * rock oil
 * sesame oil
 * shale oil
 * snake oil
 * sunflower oil
 * sweet oil
 * tall oil
 * tung oil
 * valve oil
 * vegetable oil

Verb

 * 1)  to lubricate with oil
 * 2)  to grease with oil for cooking

Adjectives for Oil
volatile; subtle; raw; golden; unbleached; soothing; midnight; rich; rugged; chemic.

Verbs for Oil
adulterate—; anoint with—; disseminate—; distil—; distribute—; drill for—; drive by —; extract—; feed—; force—; flush—; fuel with—; lubricate with—; market—; power with—; press—from; prospect for—; pump —; refine—; saturate with—; spout—; — accumulates; —drips;  —flows;  —seeps through; —smooths.

Thesaurus
Barbados tar, Haliver Oil, Macassar oil, absinthe, adipose tissue, adulation, aid, alcohol, animal oils, anoint, anthracene oil, aquarelle, asphalt-base oil, avocado oil, balm, balsam, bay oil, beechnut oil, beef tallow, beeswax, benzine, blandishment, blarney, blubber, bone oil, bottlenose oil, briquette, bunker, bunkum, burnable, butane, butter, butter up, butterfat, cajolement, cajolery, camphor, candlenut oil, canvas, carapa oil, carbon, castor oil, cater, cedarwood oil, cerate, charcoal, clear the way, clove oil, coal, coal oil, cocoa butter, cod-liver oil, coke, collyrium, combustible, compliment, copaiba, copra oil, corn oil, creosote, croton oil, dab, daub, demulcent, detonate, doegling oil, dope, dose, drag, dress, dripping, drippings, drug, dub, ease, easel-picture, edible oil, electricity, embrocate, embrocation, emollient, equalize, ethane, ethanol, eucalyptus oil, even, expedite, explain, explode, eyewash, eyewater, facilitate, fair words, fat, fawning, feed, fill up, finger painting, fireball, firing, fish oil, flammable, flammable material, flatten, flattery, flaxseed oil, forage, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, fuel oil, fuel up, fulminate, furnace oil, gas, gas carbon, gas oil, gas up, gasoline, get around, ghee, glycerolate, goose grease, gouache, grade, grease, grease the ways, grease the wheels, gum spirit, harrow, hasten, help along, hempseed oil, heptane, hexane, honey, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, illuminant, illuminating gas, incense, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, jolly, kekuna oil, kerosene, kid along, lamp oil, lanolin, lard, lard oil, laurel butter, lay, lay it on, lemon oil, level, light source, liniment, linseed oil, lipid, lipoma, loose, lotion, lubricate, luminant, make clear, make way for, margarine, medicate, methane, methanol, mineral oil, mineral seal oil, mineral sperm oil, mineral spirits, mow, mutton tallow, naphthalene, naphthene-base oil, natural gas, nut oil, octane, oil of almonds, oil painting, ointment, oleo, oleomargarine, oleoresin, olive oil, open the way, open up, overdo it, painting, palaver, palm oil, palm-kernel oil, paraffin, pave the way, peanut oil, peat, pentane, perilla oil, petrol, petrolatum, petroleum, petroleum benzine, pine oil, pine tar, pine-tar oil, plane, planish, plaster, play up to, pomade, poppyseed oil, porpoise oil, praise, prepare the way, pretty lies, propane, propellant, provender, provision, purvey, quicken, rape oil, refuel, remove friction, ricinus oil, road oil, rocket fuel, rosin grease, rosin oil, run interference for, salve, saturating oil, seal oil, sell, sesame oil, shale naphtha, shave, shortening, simplify, slick, slick on, smear, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smooth the way, soap, soap the ways, soft soap, soft-soap, soften up, soybean oil, speed, spikenard, stoke, stove oil, string along, stroke, suet, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, tallow, technical oil, tempera, top off, turf, turpentine, unbar, unblock, unclog, unction, unguent, unguentum, unjam, victual, vulnerary, wash, wash drawing, water, wax, whale oil, wheedling, wood oil, wool fat

Alternative forms

 * oyl

Etymology
oile: 'olive oil', from olie, from  oleum: 'oil, olive oil', from  ἔλαιον: 'olive tree', from ἐλαία: 'olive'. More at olive. Supplanted æle:, also from Latin.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Akkadian:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (zeyt)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: oli
 * Chinese: 油 (yóu)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Franco-Provençal:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: שמן
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 油 (あぶら, abura)
 * Jèrriais: hielle, huile
 * Korean: 기름 (gireum), 유 (油 yu)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian:


 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: żejt
 * Norwegian: matolje, olje
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Persian: روغن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ulei
 * Romansch: ieli
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: నూనె
 * Tetum: mina
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Uyghur: ياغ
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: olew


 * Arabic: ,  (zeyt)
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܢܦܛܐ (nefṬā, nefṬo)
 * Hebrew: נפטא (nefṬā, nefṬo)
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: benzina
 * Chinese: 石油 (shíyóu)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian:
 * German: Erdöl,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: שמן, נפט
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 石油 (せきゆ, sekiyu), 油 (あぶら, abura)
 * Korean: 기름 (gireum), 석유 (石油, seokyu)
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: pitrolju
 * Navajo: ,
 * Norwegian:, petroleum
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: нефть (neft’)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: нафта
 * Roman: nafta
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: olja, bergolja
 * Telugu: చమురు


 * : oleum
 * : olew

Verb

 * Danish: smøre
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: olei
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: λαδώνω (a gun); λιπαίνω (machinery)
 * Hebrew: שימן
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: oliare, oleare
 * Japanese: 油を塗る (あぶらをぬる, abura o nuru)


 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: eļļot
 * Macedonian: подмачкува, намачкува
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: смазывать, смазать
 * Slovene: naoljiti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: నూనె దీపము


 * Catalan: greixar
 * Dutch: invetten, oliën
 * Esperanto: olei
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: mit Öl bestreichen
 * Hebrew: שימן
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: oliare, oleare
 * Japanese: 油をひく (あぶらをひく, abura o hiku)
 * Latvian: taukot
 * Macedonian: подмачкува, намачкува
 * Norwegian: olje, smøre
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,

Anagrams

 * ILO
 * LOI

Verb
oil


 * 1) to educate