English
oil
see also: OIL, Oil
Pronunciation
  • enPR: oil, IPA: /ɔɪ(ə)l/, [ɔɪ(ə)ɫ]
  • (Southern US) IPA: /ɔl̴/
Etymology 1

From Middle English oyle, oile, borrowed from Anglo-Norman olie, from Latin oleum, from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον, from ἐλαία.

Noun

oil

  1. Liquid fat.
  2. Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
  3. Petroleum.
  4. (countable) An oil painting.
  5. (painting) Oil paint.
    I prefer to paint in oil
  6. (attributive) Containing oil, conveying oil; intended for or capable of containing oil.
    oil barrel; oil pipe
Translations Translations Translations Etymology 2

From Middle English oilen, oylen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

oil (oils, present participle oiling; simple past and past participle oiled)

  1. (transitive) To lubricate with oil.
    • 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC ↗:
      Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:
      The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
  2. (transitive) To grease with oil for cooking.
Translations Translations
OIL
Noun

oil (plural oils)

  1. Abbreviation of oxygen-iodine laser
    Hypernyms: laser
    Hyponyms: COIL, DOIL, EOIL
Oil
Etymology

From Indonesian Oil.

Proper noun
  1. Surname


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