'OIL' definitions:
Definition of 'oil'
(from WordNet)
noun
A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
noun
Oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist [syn: oil, oil color, oil colour]
noun
A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oil]
noun
Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants [syn: vegetable oil, oil]
verb
Cover with oil, as if by rubbing; "oil the wooden surface"
verb
Definition of 'oil'
From: Easton
- Oil Only olive oil seems to have been used among the Hebrews. It was used for many purposes: for anointing the body or the hair (Ex. 29:7; 2 Sam. 14:2; Ps. 23:5; 92:10; 104:15; Luke 7:46); in some of the offerings (Ex. 29:40; Lev. 7:12; Num. 6:15; 15:4), but was excluded from the sin-offering (Lev. 5:11) and the jealousy-offering (Num. 5:15); for burning in lamps (Ex. 25:6; 27:20; Matt. 25:3); for medicinal purposes (Isa. 1:6; Luke 10:34; James 5:14); and for anointing the dead (Matt. 26:12; Luke 23:56).
- It was one of the most valuable products of the country (Deut. 32:13; Ezek. 16:13), and formed an article of extensive commerce with Tyre (27:17).
- The use of it was a sign of gladness (Ps. 92:10; Isa. 61:3), and its omission a token of sorrow (2 Sam. 14:2; Matt. 6:17). It was very abundant in Galilee. (See OLIVE.)
Synonyms of 'oil'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absinthe,
- adipose tissue,
- adulation,
- aid,
- alcohol,
- animal oils,
- anoint,
- anthracene oil,
- aquarelle,
- asphalt-base oil,
- avocado oil,
- balm,
- balsam,
- Barbados tar,
- 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,
- Haliver Oil,
- 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,
- Macassar oil,
- 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
Acronyms for 'oil'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Operator Identification Language (ELI)
Words containing 'OIL'
- oiled,
- Beech oil,
- Bone oil,
- Camphor oil,
- Camphorated oil,
- Carron oil,
- Cassia oil,
- Castor oil,
- Coal oil,
- Cottonseed oil,
- Croton oil,
- Cuscus oil,
- Dippel's oil,
- Drying oil,
- Dutch oil,
- Earth oil,
- Empyreumatic oils,
- Essential oils,
- Ethereal oil,
- Ethereous oil,
- Fish oil,
- Fixed oils,
- Florence oil,
- Fulminating oil,
- Fusel oil,
- Gallipoli oil,
- Grass oil,
- Lard oil,
- Light oil,
- Linseed oil,
- Macassar oil,
- Marmottes oil,
- Middle oil,
- Mineral oil,
- Mustard oil,
- Oil City,
- Oil Trough,
- Oil cake,
- Oil of birch,
- Oil of cade,
- Oil of cinnamon,
- Oil of safflower,
- Oil of spike,
- Oil of turpentine,
- Oil of verbena,
- Oil of vitriol,
- Oil shark,
- Palm oil,
- Pine oil,
- Poonga oil,
- Rock oil,
- Roosa oil,
- Rose oil,
- Rosin oil,
- Seed oil,
- Solar oil,
- Soybean oil,
- Sperm oil,
- Stone oil,
- Sweet oil,
- Teel oil,
- To strike oil,
- Train oil,
- Volatile oils,
- Walnut oil,
- Winter oil,
- Wood oil,
- Worm oil,
- absinthe oil,
- almond oil,
- aniline oil,
- animal oil,
- babacu oil,
- babassu oil,
- baby oil,
- banana oil,
- bath oil,
- beaten oil,
- benne oil,
- birch oil,
- calamus oil,
- canola oil,
- chaulmoogra oil,
- clove oil,
- coconut oil,
- cod oil,
- cohune oil,
- colza oil,
- cooking oil,
- copra oil,
- corn oil,
- costus oil,
- crude oil,
- diesel oil,
- dolphin oil,
- dupada oil,
- essential oil,
- eucalyptus oil,
- fatty oil,
- ferment oils,
- fixed oil,
- flaxseed oil,
- fossil oil,
- fuel oil,
- gas oil,
- groundnut oil,
- hair oil,
- heating oil,
- hedeoma oil,
- holy oil,
- honey oil,
- hydnocarpus oil,
- hyssop oil,
- lamp oil,
- lemon oil,
- lemongrass oil,
- lubricating oil,
- madia oil,
- menhaden oil,
- motor oil,
- neroli oil,
- oil beetle,
- oil burner,
- oil business,
- oil cartel,
- oil change,
- oil color,
- oil colour,
- oil company,
- oil conservation,
- oil filter,
- oil furnace,
- oil future,
- oil geologist,
- oil gland,
- oil heater,
- oil industry,
- oil lamp,
- oil meal,
- oil nut,
- oil of ben,
- oil of cloves,
- oil of gaultheria,
- oil of glonoin,
- oil of partridgeberry,
- oil of teaberry,
- oil of wintergreen,
- oil paint,
- oil painter,
- oil painting,
- oil palm,
- oil pipeline,
- oil plant,
- oil pressure,
- oil production,
- oil pump,
- oil refinery,
- oil rig,
- oil rigger,
- oil shale,
- oil slick,
- oil stain,
- oil tanker,
- oil well,
- oleo oil,
- olive oil,
- paraffin oil,
- peanut oil,
- pennyroyal oil,
- peppermint oil,
- porpoise oil,
- rape oil,
- rapeseed oil,
- residual oil,
- sacramental oil,
- safflower oil,
- salad oil,
- salmon oil,
- sardine oil,
- sassafras oil,
- seal oil,
- sesame oil,
- shale oil,
- shark oil,
- snake oil,
- soya oil,
- soyabean oil,
- spearmint oil,
- spike oil,
- stand oil,
- sunflower oil,
- tall oil,
- tallow oil,
- tuna oil,
- tung oil,
- vegetable oil,
- volatile oil,
- whale oil,
- wintergreen oil,
- wool oil,
- wormwood oil,
- xylite oil,
- Ethereal oil of wine,
- Langue d'oil,
- Oil City, LA,
- Oil City, PA,
- Oil Trough, AR,
- african oil palm,
- american oil palm,
- bitter almond oil,
- burn the midnight oil,
- chinese wood oil,
- cod liver oil,
- concrete oil of wine,
- expressed almond oil,
- ginger grass oil,
- heavy oil of wine,
- lemon grass oil,
- madia oil plant,
- oil of bitter almonds,
- oil-bearing,
- oil-fired,
- oil-soluble,
- spike lavender oil,
- sweet almond oil,
- Castor-oil plant,
- Cod-liver oil,
- cohune-nut oil,
- fish-liver oil,
- halibut-liver oil,
- imitation oil of bitter almonds,
- langue d'oil french,
- neat's-foot oil,
- oil-hardened steel,
- oil-industry analyst,
- oil-rich seed,
- oil-water interface,
- shark-liver oil,
- sunflower-seed oil,
- sweet-birch oil,
- tung-oil tree,
- with hard-shelled nuts yielding a valuable oil,
- native of some of the Pacific islands It is used by the natives as a candle the nut kernels being strung together The oil from the nut