oil

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   cover with oil, as if by rubbing

   oil the wooden surface

2. 2
   noun

   Petroleum.

   Oil is found in countries such as Saudi Arabia and is transported all over the world.

3. 3
   noun

   An oil painting.

   Yet, in another way, I was unable to put Picasso's oils in the same class as Cezanne's, or even (which will no doubt shock many readers) as Renoir's.

4. 4
   noun

   Oil paint.

   I prefer to paint in oil

5. 5
   verb

   To lubricate with oil.

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   To say in an unctuous manner.

   "Do you need a drink?" oils Robert Ryan to the disinterested Stanwyck in Clash By Night; "Let's say that's what I need," she sneers back.

7. 7
   noun

   oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist

8. 8
   noun

   any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants

Etymology

From Middle English oyle, oile (“olive oil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman olie, from Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Compare Proto-Slavic *lojь. More at olive. Doublet of oleum. Supplanted Middle English ele (“oil”), from Old English ele (“oil”), also from Latin.