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oil
(oil)n.
1. Any of numerous mineral, vegetable, or synthetic substances or animal or vegetable fats that are generally slippery, combustible, viscous, liquid or liquefiable at room temperatures, soluble in various organic solvents such as ether but not in water, and used in a great variety of products, especially lubricants and fuels.
2.
a. Petroleum.
b. A petroleum derivative, such as a machine oil or lubricant.
3. A protective or cosmetic liquid applied to the skin or hair.
4. Oil paint.
5. A painting done in oil paint.
tr.v. oiled, oil·ing, oils
Idiom: To lubricate, supply, cover, or polish with oil.
oil (someone's) hand/palm Informal
1. To bribe: an attorney who tried to oil the judge's hand to obtain a favorable verdict.
2. To give a tip to: oiled the porter's palm.
[Middle English, from Old French oile, from Latin oleum, olive oil, from Greek *elaiwon, elaion, from *elaiwā, elaiā, olive.]
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oil
(ɔɪl)n
1. any of a number of viscous liquids with a smooth sticky feel. They are usually flammable, insoluble in water, soluble in organic solvents, and are obtained from plants and animals, from mineral deposits, and by synthesis. They are used as lubricants, fuels, perfumes, foodstuffs, and raw materials for chemicals. See also essential oil, fixed oil
2. (Elements & Compounds)
a. another name for petroleum
b. (as modifier): an oil engine; an oil rig.
3. (Elements & Compounds)
a. Also called: lubricating oil any of a number of substances usually derived from petroleum and used for lubrication
b. (in combination): an oilcan; an oilstone.
c. (as modifier): an oil pump.
4. (Elements & Compounds) Also called: fuel oil a petroleum product used as a fuel in domestic heating, industrial furnaces, marine engines, etc
5. (Elements & Compounds)
a. paraffin, esp when used as a domestic fuel
b. (as modifier): an oil lamp; an oil stove.
6. any substance of a consistency resembling that of oil: oil of vitriol.
7. (Art Terms) the solvent, usually linseed oil, with which pigments are mixed to make artists' paints
8. (Art Terms)
a. (often plural) oil colour or paint
b. (as modifier): an oil painting.
9. (Art Terms) an oil painting
10. the good oil the dinkum oil slang Austral and NZ facts or news
11. (Mining & Quarrying) to discover petroleum while drilling for it
12. informal to become very rich or successful
vb (tr)
13. to lubricate, smear, polish, etc, with oil or an oily substance
14. informal to bribe (esp in the phrase oil someone's palm)
15. oil the wheels to make things run smoothly
[C12: from Old French oile, from Latin oleum (olive) oil, from olea olive tree, from Greek elaia olive]
ˈoil-ˌlike adj
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oil
(ɔɪl)n.
1. any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water.
2. a substance of this or similar consistency.
3. refined or crude petroleum.
4.
a. oil color.
5. unctuous hypocrisy; flattery.
6. an oilskin garment.
v.t. 7. to smear, lubricate, or supply with oil.
8. to bribe.
9. to convert into oil by melting, as butter.
[1125–75; Middle English olie, oile < Old French < Latin oleum, olīvum (olive) oil <*oleivum]
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oil
(oil)1. Any of a large class of liquid or easily melted substances that are typically very slippery and greasy. Oils are flammable, do not mix with water, and include animal and vegetable fats as well as substances of mineral or synthetic origin. They are used in food, soap, and candles, and make good lubricants and fuels.
2. Petroleum.
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oil
- From Latin oleum, from Greek elaion, "olive oil; other oily substance."See also related terms for olive oil.
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oil
Past participle: oiled
Gerund: oiling
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| Noun | 1. |  oil - a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with watersassafras 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 fat, cohune oil, cohune-nut 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 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 |
| 2. |  oil - oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artistoil paint - paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle | |
| 3. |  oil - a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbonsatomic 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 | |
| 4. |  oil - any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plantsedible 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 oil, sunflower-seed 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 | |
| Verb | 1. | 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" |
| 2. |  oil - administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessingbless - give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his son" |
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oil
verb
noun
1. lubricant, grease, lubrication, fuel oil Her car had run out of oil.
2. lotion, cream, balm, salve, liniment, embrocation, solution sun-tan oil
Oils
Edible oils benne, gingili, or sesame, butyrin, corn, cottonseed, fixed, maize, nut, oleo, olive, palm, peanut, peppermint, soya, sunflower seed, vegetable
Industrial oils benzaldehyde, banana or pentyl acetate, bone, crude, Chinese wood or tung, coal, colza, diesel, drying, fuel, fusel, glutaraldehyde, gas, heavy, linseed, mineral, neat's foot, paraffin, parathion, rapeseed, rosin, shale, sperm, stand, train, turpentine, whale oil
Oils used in perfume and medicine attar, bergamot, cajuput, camphorated, croton, castor, chaulmoogra, citronella, clove, coconut, cod-liver, eucalyptus, evening primrose, jojoba, lavender, Macassar, musk, mustard, neroli, palm, patchouli, peanut, rapeseed, sandalwood, sassafras, savin, tea tree, wintergreen, ylang-ylang
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oil
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Translations
olejnaftanaolejovat
oliesmøre
oleopetrolo
öljyöljytärasvatavoidella
naftanauljitiulje
olajmegolajoz
olíasmyrja, olíubera
油油を差す
기름기름을 바르다
aliejinė palmėaliejiniai dažaialiejiniais dažais tapytas paveikslasaliejuotasaliejus
eļļaeļļotieeļļot
naolejovaťolej
naftaoljenaoljiti
oljasmörjamatolja
ใส่น้ำมันน้ำมัน
dầubôi dầu
oil
[ɔɪl]A. N
C. CPD oil change N (Aut) → cambio m de aceite
oil colours NPL (Art) → óleos mpl
oil deposits NPL (Geol) → yacimientos mpl de petróleo
oil filter N (Aut) → filtro m de aceite
oil gauge N (Aut) → indicador m de(l) aceite
oil industry N → industria f del petróleo
oil lamp N → lámpara f de aceite, quinqué m
oil level N → nivel m del aceite
oil paint N (Art) → óleo m, pintura f al óleo
oil painting N (Art) → pintura f al óleo
she's no oil painting → no es ninguna belleza
oil pipeline N → oleoducto m
oil platform N → plataforma f petrolífera
oil pollution N → contaminación f petrolífera
oil pressure N (Aut) → presión f del aceite
oil refinery N → refinería f de petróleo
oil rig N → torre f de perforación (Naut) → plataforma f de perforación submarina
oil slick N (large) → marea f negra; (small) → mancha f de petróleo, capa f de petróleo (en el agua)
oil spill N (= act) → fuga f de petróleo; (= substance) = oil slick oil stove N (for cooking) → cocina f de petróleo; (for heating) → estufa f de petróleo
oil tanker N → petrolero m
oil terminal N → terminal f petrolífera
oil well N → pozo m de petróleo
oil colours NPL (Art) → óleos mpl
oil deposits NPL (Geol) → yacimientos mpl de petróleo
oil filter N (Aut) → filtro m de aceite
oil gauge N (Aut) → indicador m de(l) aceite
oil industry N → industria f del petróleo
oil lamp N → lámpara f de aceite, quinqué m
oil level N → nivel m del aceite
oil paint N (Art) → óleo m, pintura f al óleo
oil painting N (Art) → pintura f al óleo
she's no oil painting → no es ninguna belleza
oil pipeline N → oleoducto m
oil platform N → plataforma f petrolífera
oil pollution N → contaminación f petrolífera
oil pressure N (Aut) → presión f del aceite
oil refinery N → refinería f de petróleo
oil rig N → torre f de perforación (Naut) → plataforma f de perforación submarina
oil slick N (large) → marea f negra; (small) → mancha f de petróleo, capa f de petróleo (en el agua)
oil spill N (= act) → fuga f de petróleo; (= substance) = oil slick oil stove N (for cooking) → cocina f de petróleo; (for heating) → estufa f de petróleo
oil tanker N → petrolero m
oil terminal N → terminal f petrolífera
oil well N → pozo m de petróleo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
oil
[ˈɔɪl] n
(for cooking, skincare) → huile f
oil and vinegar → de l'huile et du vinaigre
cooking oil → de l'huile de cuisine
lavender, lemon and other essential oils → lavande, citron et autres huiles essentielles
to pour oil on troubled waters → calmer le jeu
oil and vinegar → de l'huile et du vinaigre
cooking oil → de l'huile de cuisine
lavender, lemon and other essential oils → lavande, citron et autres huiles essentielles
to pour oil on troubled waters → calmer le jeu
(for lubricating) → huile f
(for central heating) → mazout m
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oil
n
(= petroleum) → (Erd)öl nt; to strike oil (lit) → auf Öl stoßen; (fig) → einen guten Fund machen; (= get rich) → das große Los ziehen
(Art: = painting) → Ölgemälde nt; to paint in oils → in Öl malen; a painting in oils → ein Ölgemälde nt
(inf, = flattery) → Schmeicheleien pl
vt → ölen, schmieren; table, furniture → einölen; to oil somebody’s tongue (fig) → jdm die Zunge ölen or schmieren; to oil the wheels (fig) → die Dinge erleichtern
oil
in cpds → Öl-;oil baron
n → Ölmagnat m
oil-based
oilcake
n → Ölkuchen m
oilcan
n → Ölkanne f; (for lubricating also) → Ölkännchen nt
oil change
oilcloth
n → Wachstuch nt
oil colours, (US) oil colors
pl → Ölfarben pl
oil company
n → Ölkonzern m
oil drum
n → Ölfass nt
oil
:oil-exporting
adj → Öl exportierend
oilfield
n → Ölfeld nt
oil-fired
oil gauge, (US) oil gage
n → Ölstandsanzeiger m, → Ölstandsmesser m
oil industry
n → Ölindustrie f
oil
:oil lamp
n → Öllampe f
oil level
n → Ölstand m
oilman
n → Ölindustrielle(r) mf; (= trader) → Ölhändler(in) m(f)
oil paint
n → Ölfarbe f
oil painting
n (= picture) → Ölgemälde nt; (= art) → Ölmalerei f; she’s no oil (inf) → sie ist nicht gerade eine Schönheit
oilpan
n → Ölwanne f
oil platform
n → Bohrinsel f, → Bohrplattform f
oil pollution
n → Ölverschmutzung f
oil-producing
adj → ölproduzierend
oil refinery
n → (Erd)ölraffinerie f
oil-rich
adj → ölreich
oil rig
n → (Öl)bohrinsel f
oil sheik
n → Ölscheich m
oilskin
n
(= cloth) → Öltuch nt
oilskins
pl (= clothing) → Ölzeug nt
oil slick
n → Ölteppich m
oil spill
n → Ölkatastrophe f
oil stove
n → Ölofen m
oil terminal
n → Ölhafen m
oil well
n → Ölquelle f
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oil
(oil) noun a usually thick liquid that will not mix with water, obtained from plants, animals and minerals. olive oil; whale oil; vegetable oil; cooking oil; He put some oil on the hinges of the door; The car's engine is in need of oil.
verb to put oil on or into. The machine will work better if it's oiled.
oils noun plural oil paint. He paints in oils.
ˈoily adjective1. of, like or covered with oil. an oily liquid; an oily rag.
2. trying to be too friendly or polite. The waiters in that restaurant are too oily.
ˈoilfield noun a place where mineral oil is found. There are oilfields in the North Sea.
oil paint paint made with oil. Some artists prefer to use oil paint(s).
oil painting a picture painted with oil paints.
oil palm a palm tree whose fruit and seeds yield oil.
ˈoil-rig noun a structure used to drill oil-wells. The ship sailed past an enormous oil-rig.
ˈoil-tanker noun a ship used for carrying oil. An oil-tanker has run aground near here.
ˈoil-well noun a hole drilled into the earth or the sea-bed to obtain petroleum.
strike oil to find oil under the ground. After drilling for several months, they finally struck oil; We've struck oil (= found what we have been looking for) in our search for a suitable house.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
oil
→ نِفْطٌّ, يُزِيِّتُ naolejovat, olej olie, smøre Öl, ölen λάδι, λαδώνω aceite, lubricar öljy, öljytä huile, huiler nafta, nauljiti lubrificare, petrolio 油, 油を差す 기름, 기름을 바르다 olie, oliën olje naoliwić, olej lubrificar, óleo масло, смазывать olja, smörja ใส่น้ำมัน, น้ำมัน yağ, yağlamak bôi dầu, dầu 上油, 油Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
oil
n. aceite;
castor ___ → ___ de ricino;
cod liver ___ → ___ de hígado de bacalao;
mineral ___ → ___ mineral;
olive ___ → ___ de oliva;
salad ___ → ___ para ensalada;
v. aceitar, lubricar, engrasar, untar con aceite.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
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oil
n aceite m; castor — aceite de ricino; citronella — aceite de citronela; coconut — aceite de coco; cod-liver — aceite de hígado de bacalao; corn — aceite de maíz; essential — aceite esencial; evening primrose — aceite de onagra; fish — aceite de pescado; geranium — aceite de geranio; lemon eucalyptus — aceite de eucalipto de limón; lemon — aceite de limón; mineral — aceite mineral; olive — aceite de oliva; palm — aceite de palma; peanut — aceite de maní or cacahuete or cacahuate; rape-seed — aceite de colza; safflower — aceite de cártamo; tea tree — aceite del árbol del té; vegetable — aceite vegetalEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.