oil 
oil (o̵il)
noun
- any of various kinds of greasy, combustible substances obtained from animal, vegetable, and mineral sources: oils are liquid at ordinary temperatures and soluble in certain organic solvents, as ether, but not in water
- petroleum
- any of various substances having the consistency of oil
- Informal smooth, hypocritical flattery
Etymology: ME oile < OFr < L oleum, oil, olive oil < Gr elaion, (olive) oil, akin to elaia, olive
transitive verb
- to smear, lubricate, or supply with oil
- to bribe: chiefly in oil the palm (or hand) of
adjective
of, from, like, or yielding oil, or having to do with the production or use of oil
pour oil on troubled waters
to settle quarrels, differences, etc. by calm, soothing methods
strike oil
☆- to discover oil under the ground by drilling a shaft for it
- to become suddenly wealthy
oil
n.
Liquid, greasy substance
melted fat, unction, lubricant; see fat, grease.Common oils include: vegetable, animal, mineral, fixed, fatty, volatile, essential, machine, crude, lubricating, cottonseed, olive, canola, coconut, sunflower, peanut, safflower, castor, palm, corn, whale, sperm, linseed, drying, semidrying, nondrying, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, wormwood, candlenut, poppy-seed, soybean, sesame, cinnamon-bark, tung, cassia, vetiver, bergamot, wintergreen, cameline, palmarosa, chenopodium, ilang-ilang, cod-liver, halibut-liver, hake, fish; petroleum, kerosene, lard, tallow, oleo, oil of amber, oil of spike lavender, lanolin, turpentine.
Liquid substance used for power or illumination
petroleum, kerosene, coal oil, crude oil, liquid coal, rock oil, fossil fuel, fossil oil, cerate, liquid gold*; see also fuel, petroleum.
Preposition: on
- canvas: New Landscapes A collection of new artworks by Emma Gray in oil on canvas.
- dimension: Materials: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 34.7 x 56cm Acquisition: Presented to the gallery by Mrs L. Gordon, Tranby Lodge.
Converse of object
- hydrogenate: It is now virtually trans fat free and does not contain hydrogenated vegetable oils.
Adjective modifier
- olive: Olive oil is man's best source of energy.
- crude: Oil pricing was based upon the average price for Syrian light crude oil for the month of June 2006.
- essential: The essential oils you add to the base oil is up to you.
- virgin: Extra virgin olive oil is particularly well known and used for its medicinal and therapeutic benefits.
- offshore: A current issue is whether to meet future energy needs through development of biomass generation or offshore oil.
- coconut: The energy boost you get from coconut oil is not like the kick you get from caffeine, says Fife.
Modifies a noun
- spill: His bike had skidded on an oil spill on the road that he hadn't spotted.
- painting: These may be seen in an old oil painting of the church.
- refinery: The Hoo Peninsula's first oil refinery was that of Berry Wiggins.
Noun used with modifier
- vegetable: His first engines were designed to run on a wide variety of vegetable oils including peanut oil.
- sunflower: Heat the sunflower oil in one very large or 2 slightly smaller frying pans over a moderate heat.
- linseed: It produces cold pressed linseed oil from home grown crops for human consumption.
- palm: The hand made, all natural soap is created from cold pressed pure olive, coconut and palm oils.
- olive: Substitution with cheaper ingredients: adding low cost ingredients to a more expensive product, e.g. diluting olive oil with vegetable oils.
- sesame: Add the shredded chicken meat to the pan, along with spring onion and few drops of sesame oil.
Preposition: in
- saucepan: Meanwhile, for the red cabbage, heat the oil in a saucepan and add the pancetta, shallots and garlic.
Preposition: of
- chrism: The Pope anointed each of them with the oil of chrism and then laid his hands on them to symbolize apostolic succession.
No young American in uniform should ever be held hostage to America's dependence on oil from the Middle East.
The L ismy shepherd; Ishall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valleyof theshadow of death,I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the L for ever.
If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.
To make a good salad isto be a brilliant diplomatistöthe problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree.
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
The oil can is mightier than the sword.
New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic. San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one- trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle. St Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
Give 'em words; Pour oil into their ears, and send them hence.
Some people find oil, some don't.
Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me: thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin'day, or Warren's blackin', or Rowland's oil, or some o'them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.
They didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle.
Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
L'odeur du vin, o" combien plus est friand, riant, priant, plus ce¤ leste et de¤ licieux que d'huile! The odour of wine, oh how much sweeter, more cheerful, pleasing, heavenlyand delicious it is than oil!
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