| oil | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. oil | a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water. |
| ~ sassafras oil | oil from root bark of sassafras trees; used in perfumery and as a disinfectant. |
| ~ calamus oil | carcinogenic oil from calamus root used as a perfume. |
| ~ mustard oil | oil obtained from mustard seeds and used in making soap. |
| ~ colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil | edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant. |
| ~ safflower oil | oil from safflower seeds used as food as well as in medicines and paints. |
| ~ hydnocarpus oil | oil from seeds of trees of the genus Hydnocarpus especially Hydnocarpus wightiana (Hydnocarpus laurifolia). |
| ~ babacu oil, babassu oil | fatty oil from kernels of babassu nuts similar to coconut oil. |
| ~ cohune-nut oil, cohune fat, cohune oil | semisolid fat from nuts of the cohune palm; used in cooking and soap making. |
| ~ almond oil, expressed almond oil, sweet almond oil | pale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds. |
| ~ hedeoma oil, pennyroyal oil | aromatic oil from American pennyroyal. |
| ~ hyssop oil | used chiefly in liqueurs. |
| ~ spike lavender oil, spike oil | pale yellow essential oil obtained from spike lavender used in scenting soaps and cosmetics. |
| ~ pennyroyal oil | oil from European pennyroyal having an odor like mint; used chiefly in soaps. |
| ~ croton oil | viscid acrid brownish-yellow oil from the seeds of Croton tiglium having a violent cathartic action. |
| ~ fuel oil, heating oil | a petroleum product used for fuel. |
| ~ animal oil | any oil obtained from animal substances. |
| ~ camphor oil | oil distilled from camphor resin. |
| ~ grease, lubricating oil | a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery). |
| ~ essential oil, volatile oil | an oil having the odor or flavor of the plant from which it comes; used in perfume and flavorings. |
| ~ lipid, lipide, lipoid | an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates). |
| ~ mineral oil | a distillate of petroleum (especially one used medicinally as a laxative or stool softener). |
| ~ motor oil | oil used to lubricate the moving parts of a motor. |
| ~ fatty oil, fixed oil | nonvolatile animal or plant oil. |
| ~ fusel oil | a mixture of amyl alcohols and propanol and butanol formed from distillation of fermented liquors. |
| ~ stand oil | a thick oil comprised of linseed, tung, or soya oils which have been heated to over 300 C. |
| ~ neroli oil | an odoriferous yellow oil found in orange flowers and used in perfumery and as a flavoring. |
| ~ tall oil | an oil derived from wood pulp and used in making soaps or lubricants. |
| ~ crude, crude oil, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil, oil | a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons. |
| ~ shale oil | oil extracted from oil shale by heating. |
| ~ flaxseed oil, linseed oil | a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints. |
| ~ chinese wood oil, tung oil | a yellow oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree. |
| ~ chaulmoogra oil | an oil from chaulmoogra trees; used in treatment of skin diseases and leprosy. |
| ~ lemon grass, lemongrass, lemongrass oil | an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. oil, oil color, oil colour | oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist. |
| ~ oil paint | paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle. |
| n. (substance) | 3. crude, crude oil, fossil oil, oil, petroleum, rock oil | a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons. |
| ~ atomic number 6, carbon, c | an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds. |
| ~ fossil fuel | fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content. |
| ~ oil | a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water. |
| ~ resid, residual oil | oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled. |
| n. (food) | 4. oil, vegetable oil | any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants. |
| ~ edible fat | oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue. |
| ~ margarine, marge, oleo, oleomargarine, margarin | a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter. |
| ~ cooking oil | any of numerous vegetable oils used in cooking. |
| ~ sweet oil | mild vegetable oil when used as food; especially olive or edible rape oil. |
| ~ canola, canola oil | vegetable oil made from rapeseed; it is high in monounsaturated fatty acids. |
| ~ coconut oil, copra oil | oil from coconuts. |
| ~ corn oil | oil from the germs of corn grains. |
| ~ cottonseed oil | edible oil pressed from cottonseeds. |
| ~ olive oil | oil from olives. |
| ~ palm oil | oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm. |
| ~ groundnut oil, peanut oil | an oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap. |
| ~ salad oil | any of several edible vegetable oils that can be used in salad dressings. |
| ~ safflower oil | oil from seeds of the safflower plant. |
| ~ sesame oil | oil obtained from sesame seeds. |
| ~ soyabean oil, soybean oil | oil from soya beans. |
| ~ sunflower-seed oil, sunflower oil | oil from sunflower seeds. |
| ~ walnut oil | oil from walnuts. |
| ~ madia oil | used as a substitute for olive oil. |
| ~ drying oil | an oil that hardens in air due to oxidation and is often used as a paint or varnish base. |
| v. (contact) | 5. oil | cover with oil, as if by rubbing.; "oil the wooden surface" |
| ~ cover | provide with a covering or cause to be covered.; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
| v. (body) | 6. anele, anoint, embrocate, inunct, oil | administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing. |
| ~ bless | give a benediction to.; "The dying man blessed his son" |
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