English Explanatory Dictionary

oil

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Liquid fat.
  2. Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
  3. Petroleum.
  4. An oil painting.
  5. Oil paint.
verb
  1. To lubricate with oil.
  2. To grease with oil for cooking.
  3. To fuel with oil.
  4. To say in an unctuous manner.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of oxygen-iodine laser.
name
  1. A surname from Indonesian
  2. A township in Perry County, Indiana, United States, named after Oil Creek (Ohio River tributary).

Pronunciation

oil /ɔɪl/ [ɔɪʲəɫ] /ɔj(ɪ)l/ /ɑj(ɪ)l/ en-us-oil.ogg En-uk-oil.ogg /ɔl/ en-us-south-oil.ogg

Word forms

oil oils oyl oiling oiled

Etymology

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.

Derived words

abrasin oil absinthe oil add oil almond oil Athabasca oil sands avocado oil baby oil banana oil beard oil beech oil ben oil big oil bio-oil birch oil bone oil bromoil bronzing oil bunker oil burn the midnight oil butteroil butter oil cajuput oil Candy oil canola oil carap oil carbon oil carrier oil Carron oil cast oil on troubled waters castor oil castor-oil castor oil plant chili oil citronella oil coal oil coconut oil cod liver oil codliver oil cod-liver oil colza oil concrete oil of wine cooking oil coquito oil corn oil cost oil cottonseed oil crab oil croton oil crude oil Danish oil dead oil deoil dinkum oil dino oil dinosaur oil Dippel's oil drying oil earth oil engine oil enoil
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