Definitions for oil

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IPA: /ɔɪl/

Oil is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in oil (ilo).

Definitions for oil

noun

1. any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
2. a substance of this or similar consistency.
3. refined or crude petroleum.
4. Painting. oil color. oil painting.
5. Informal. unctuous hypocrisy; flattery.
6. an oilskin garment.
7. Australian and New Zealand Slang. facts or news; information:

Idioms

1. pour oil on troubled waters, to attempt to calm a difficult or tense situation, as an argument.
2. strike oil, to discover oil, especially to bring in a well. to have good luck, especially financially; make an important and valuable discovery:

adjective

1. pertaining to or resembling oil.
2. using oil, especially as a fuel:
3. concerned with the production or use of oil:
4. made with oil.
5. obtained from oil.

verb (used with object)

1. to smear, lubricate, or supply with oil.
2. to bribe.
3. to make unctuous or smooth:
4. to convert into oil by melting, as butter.

Origin of oil

1125-75; Middle English olie, oile Old French Latin oleum, olīvum (olive) oil *oleivum (cf. Deus) dialectal Greek *élaiwon (Attic élaion), derivative of *elaíwā

Examples for oil

The bucket is perforated at the bottom, and being elevated, the oil drains off.

Officials also had received reports of loud bangs—called in by fishermen—and an oil slick.

Then would Flossy be ready with her gentle drops of oil to soothe the ruffles.

Measure the vinegar and oil and add them to the dry ingredients.

She was good, and she had been anointed with the oil of gladness.

The State Department found that with high oil prices, the tar sands would be mined for oil, pipeline or no.

What do you get when you cross an oil company with gay rights?

The EPA felt that the State Department had not looked carefully enough at the impact of the pipeline if oil prices fell.

On top of oil, the United States produces significantly more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.

It is this oil that causes bananas to disagree with some persons.