[
US
/ˈɔɪɫ/
]
[ UK /ˈɔɪl/ ]
[ UK /ˈɔɪl/ ]
NOUN
- oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist
- any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
- a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
- a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
VERB
-
cover with oil, as if by rubbing
oil the wooden surface - administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
How To Use oil In A Sentence
- Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
- Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
- The recoil from the shot blew James onto his back, unconscious once again.
- He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect. Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
- In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
- If you lip balm contains phenol, camphor, menthol, peppermint oil or eucalyptus, it's most likely making your lips more chapped than not.
- Turn out the lot and the wellrotted stuff at the base can be put on unplanted soil. The Sun
- Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils. Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
- Whisk the egg in a bowl and heat a little oil in a nonstick pan. Times, Sunday Times
- They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
