oil

Meaning

1. Liquid fat.
2. Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
3. Petroleum.
4. An oil painting.
5. Oil paint.
6. Containing oil, conveying oil; intended for or capable of containing oil.

grease

liquid oil

anele

oil color

oil colour

rendered fat

inunct

oil-painting

rock-oil

any unctuous substance

grease liquor

apply oil

lubricating grease

anoint the head

petroliferous

oil the hair

smear with

Vaseline

whale oil

viscous liquid

oil-based

oiling a machine

melted fat

food oil

fat liquoring

cooking fat

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɔɪ(ə)l/

From Middle English oyle, oile (“olive oil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman olie, from Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Compare Proto-Slavic *lojь. More at olive. Doublet of oleum. Supplanted Middle English ele (“oil”), from Old English ele (“oil”), also from Latin.

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