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oil

 
Noun oil has 3 senses
  1. 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
    Derived forms: verb oil2, verb oil1
  2. oil, oil color - oil paint used by an artist
    --2 is a kind of oil paint
  3. 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:
     cooking oil; sweet oil; canola oil; coconut oil, copra oil; corn oil; cottonseed oil; olive oil; palm oil; peanut oil, groundnut oil; salad oil; safflower oil; sesame oil; soybean oil, soyabean oil; sunflower oil, sunflower-seed oil; walnut oil; madia oil; drying oil
Verb oil has 2 senses
  1. oil - cover with oil, as if by rubbing; "oil the wooden surface"
    --1 is one way to
    cover
    Derived forms: noun oil1, noun oiler1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate - administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
    --2 is one way to bless
    Derived form: noun oil1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s somebody with something
oil-price oil-producing oil-rich oil-seed oil-soaked oil-thirsty oil-water interface oil oil oil basin oil beetle oil burner oil business oil cake oil cartel oil change oil color

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