Oil is a liquid fat or fuel. You might dress your salad with olive oil and use motor oil in your car's engine; just don't confuse the two!
Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water;
Noun
oil paint used by an artist
Noun
any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
Noun
a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
Verb
administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
Verb
cover with oil, as if by rubbing; "oil the wooden surface"
n.
Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances,
not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They
are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition,
and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing,
lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily
consistency; as, oil of vitriol.
v. t.
To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to
anoint with oil.
Oil
Oil
Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water;
To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.
Usage Examples
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
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Other Usage ExamplesBy encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.