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Noun oil has 3 senses
- oil - a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
--1 is a kind of lipid, lipide, lipoid
--1 has particulars: | sassafras oil; calamus oil; rape oil, rapeseed oil, colza oil; safflower oil; hydnocarpus oil; babassu oil, babacu oil; cohune-nut oil, cohune oil, cohune fat; almond oil, expressed almond oil, sweet almond oil; pennyroyal oil, hedeoma oil; hyssop oil; spike lavender oil, spike oil; pennyroyal oil; croton oil; fuel oil, heating oil; animal oil; camphor oil; grease, lubricating oil; essential oil, volatile oil; mineral oil; motor oil; fixed oil, fatty oil; fusel oil; stand oil; neroli oil; tall oil; petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil; shale oil; linseed oil, flaxseed oil; tung oil, Chinese wood oil; chaulmoogra oil |
- oil, oil color - oil paint used by an artist
--2 is a kind of oil paint
- vegetable oil, oil - any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
--3 is a kind of edible fat
--3 is a substance of margarine, margarin, oleo, oleomargarine, marge
--3 has particulars:
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