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oil English

Meaning oil meaning

What does oil mean?
Definitions in simple English

oil Noun

— Oil is a liquid that is burned to create heat or used in machines to make them run well. Gas and oil are essential to running a car. — Oil is a liquid made of fat that is used for cooking. Cook the potatoes in oil. — An oil is a painting made of oil paint.

oil Verb

— If you oil something, you put clear oil on a machine to make it run well. She oiled the parts of the gun.

oil

— noun a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water — noun oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist — verb cover with oil, as if by rubbing oil the wooden surface — noun (= vegetable oil) any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants — verb administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing — noun a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

Synonyms oil synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as oil?

oil English » English

grease fat petroleum lubricate kerosene ointment mineral oil lard butter petrol gas fuel crude oil black gold anoint cooking oil vegetable oil smear rock oil oily naphtha motor oil lubricant gasoline fossil oil etc. unguent suet sesame oil rendered fat oleum oleo oil colour oil color lotion liquid oil kerosine inunct honey gravy engine oil embrocate crude cottonseed oil bribe animal anele whale oil whale well

Topics oil topics

What do people use oil to talk about?
Universe, creation World Solid, liquid, gas

Oil
Daily life Fire

Fuel
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with oil and gas
Daily life Food Types of food Cooking ingredients

Cooking oil
Daily life Adornment

Anoint the body
Daily life Fire

Fireplace
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with chemicals
Daily life

Fire

Conjugation oil conjugation

How do you conjugate oil?

oil · verb

Examples oil examples

How do I use oil in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We learned that oil floats on water.
Gasoline is more flammable than fuel oil.
The end of the age of oil is in sight.
The oil price is falling.
Algeria sells oil and gas.
Do we have any olive oil?
They love to consume olive oil.
You should change the oil.
The lantern has run out of oil.
We will run short of oil some day.
Some scientists predict that the world oil reserves will be used up within a century.
We've run short of oil.
A tanker is a ship carrying oil.
That was cooked in oil.
The well delivers a great deal of oil.
Because of fighting in the region, the oil supply was temporarily cut off.
The water was fouled by oil.
That country's wealth comes from its oil.
Is there any salad oil in the bottle?
There's no salad oil left.
Saudi Arabia is very rich in oil.
This oil painting dates from the 17th century.
This heating system burns oil.
Oil this bicycle.
This country is rich in oil.
Oil is scarce in this country.
We'd like to order 18 tonnes of olive oil.
Shall I check the oil?
Arabia abounds in oil.
They make used cooking oil into soap at that factory.
I have to burn the midnight oil tonight.

Movie subtitles

For who? The oil exploration companies.
There's no oil in Brokenwood.
Any tips on removing motor oil from a polyester suit?
I hope it doesn't have to go any further, like the idea of oil exploration in Meetville.
It tastes like motor oil.
The Karabakh region is full of oil.
Are you convinced that the Devil's Field contains oil?
This cannot only be about exploiting the oil.
An oil field is sleeping below that ground!
How could she know that the Devil's Field concealed an oil field?
Please give the duchess my compliments and some castor oil.
There's oil in it.
The Governor of Oklahoma to regulate oil production.
Surely gang rule and law defiance are more of a menace to the nation than the regulation of oil or a bullfight.
These were the days before oil fuel made stoking a lady's job - when stokers earned their pay in sweat and coal-dust.
Don't you remember Mrs. Beaugard lost a Rittenhouse oil painting?
Why, if I had my way, I'd boil you in oil.
So you'd have me boiled in oil, would you?
My suitors usually come in oil.
Oklahoma oil doing Hollywood.
I'm the millionaire oil king from Clemp City, Oklahoma.
This is my wife, Henrietta, the Oil Queen.
Well, don't you know any other games but the oil game?
Yes, but I like the old oil game best.
Still like the old oil game best.
I'm Harvey Clemp, the oil king.
China has sealed the oil pipeline again?
You look like an unsuccessful oil tycoon.
Maurice painted them by hand.in oil.
Over the fireplace is an oil painting of some ape in a costume holding a sword.
And behind the oil painting is the wall safe.
Where's the oil?
And after that, come back from the store with some olive oil.
An oil well, an invention, or an emerald mine.
Boiling in oil is too good for them.
We're here on a visit. I'm in oil, you know.
My main business is oil.
Albert, oil those wheels.
Haven't got an oil can.

News and current affairs

For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.
This rich habitat supports remarkable biodiversity - or did before the oil companies got there - and more than 30 million local inhabitants, who depend on the local ecosystems for their health and livelihoods.
The global companies operating in the delta have spilled oil and flared natural gas for decades, without regard for the natural environment and the communities impoverished and poisoned by their actions.
The companies routinely bribe officials to gain oil leases, lie about output, evade taxes, and dodge responsibility for the environmental damage that they cause.
When oil companies misbehave in Nigeria or elsewhere, they are protected by the power of their home countries.
Last year, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) issued a remarkable report on Ogoniland, a major ethnic homeland in the Niger Delta that has been at the epicenter of conflict between local communities and international oil.
Despite many past promises of a cleanup, Ogoniland remains in environmental agony, impoverished and sickened by the oil industry.
Many major companies, including in the oil industry, have expressed their readiness to support sustainable development goals.
Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other major oil companies should step forward and help to fund the necessary cleanup, ushering in a new era of responsibility.
It is heartening that several Nigerian senators have recently been in the forefront of efforts to strengthen the rule of law in the oil sector.
The cleanup of the Niger Delta provides an ideal opportunity for Nigeria, the oil industry, and the international community to show convincingly that a new age has dawned.
Oil prices are soaring, as are Putin's approval ratings.
Russia's economy is more dependent on gas and oil than ever before.
What, for example, will happen to a country as central and vulnerable as Egypt when hundred of thousands of Egyptians working in the Gulf are forced to return to their homeland as a result of the crisis in the oil-producing countries?
What is surprising is that this aggressive behavior occurred in response to no visible danger. Oil prices are soaring, as are Putin's approval ratings.
But it makes far more sense to use the force of markets - the power of incentives - than to rely on goodwill, especially when it comes to oil companies that regard their sole objective as maximizing profits, regardless of the cost to others.
In the US, when oil prices go up, incomes in Texas and Montana rise, which means that these states then contribute more tax revenue to the federal budget, thereby helping out the rest of the country.
Some companies even seem to celebrate the melting of the polar ice cap, because it will reduce the cost of extracting the oil that lies beneath the Arctic Ocean.
The US subsidizes corn-based ethanol, and imposes tariffs on sugar-based ethanol; hidden in the tax code are billions of dollars of subsidies to the oil and gas industries.
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