oil
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1. oil - Noun
2. oil - Verb
3. Oil - Proper noun
Meaning
Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.
To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.
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oil the wooden surface
A 2006 report by judicial investigators blamed the blast on negligence that allowed ammonium nitrate to come into contact with other chemicals in the AZF plant, a subsidiary of oil giant Total.
Abandoned sugar fields next to the airport that ferries Exxon’s workers to rigs will soon become Guyana’s biggest residential construction site, aimed at the foreign oil workers.
Aberdeen City Council has named the best local authority in the UK – having been recognised for the “brave, bold and imaginative” response to the oil downturn.
About 5 million barrels of oil extracted worldwide every day are not attracting high enough premiums to offset the costs of extracting it out of the field, according to the Paris-based IEA agency.
1850s: Gold rush Ballarat's tent city in the summer of 1853–1854 oil painting from an original sketch by Eugene von Guerard The first publicised discovery of gold in the region was by Thomas Hiscock on 2 August 1851 in the Buninyong region to the south.