What is "oil" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does oil mean in English? Meaning of oil definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "oil" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "oil": a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water

Noun

  • Meaning: a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
  • Synonyms: oil
  • Hyponyms: almond oil animal oil babacu oil babassu oil calamus oil camphor oil chaulmoogra oil chinese wood oil cohune fat cohune oil cohune-nut oil colza oil croton oil crude crude oil essential oil expressed almond oil fatty oil fixed oil flaxseed oil fossil oil fuel oil fusel oil grease heating oil hedeoma oil hydnocarpus oil hyssop oil lemon grass lemongrass lemongrass oil linseed oil lubricating oil mineral oil motor oil mustard oil neroli oil oil pennyroyal oil petroleum rape oil rapeseed oil rock oil safflower oil sassafras oil shale oil spike lavender oil spike oil stand oil sweet almond oil tall oil tung oil volatile oil
  • Hypernyms: lipid lipide lipoid
  • Meaning of "oil": cover with oil, as if by rubbing

    Verb

  • Meaning: cover with oil, as if by rubbing
  • Example: oil the wooden surface
  • Synonyms: oil
  • Hypernyms: cover
  • Meaning of "oil": oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist

    Noun

  • Meaning: oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist
  • Synonyms: oil oil color oil colour
  • Hypernyms: oil paint
  • Meaning of "oil": administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing

    Verb

  • Meaning: administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
  • Synonyms: anele anoint embrocate inunct oil
  • Hypernyms: bless
  • Meaning of "oil": a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

    Noun

  • Meaning: a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
  • Synonyms: crude crude oil fossil oil oil petroleum rock oil
  • Hyponyms: resid residual oil
  • Hypernyms: fossil fuel oil
  • Substance Holonyms: atomic number 6 c carbon
  • Meaning of "oil": any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants

    Noun

  • Meaning: any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
  • Synonyms: oil vegetable oil
  • Hyponyms: canola canola oil coconut oil cooking oil copra oil corn oil cottonseed oil drying oil groundnut oil madia oil olive oil palm oil peanut oil safflower oil salad oil sesame oil soyabean oil soybean oil sunflower oil sunflower-seed oil sweet oil walnut oil
  • Hypernyms: edible fat
  • Synonyms:

    coat, grease, anoint, smear, slick, lard, pomade, lube,

    Antonyms:

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    oil in English: oil
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