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Noun | 1. | ![]() sassafras oil - oil from root bark of sassafras trees; used in perfumery and as a disinfectant calamus oil - carcinogenic oil from calamus root used as a perfume mustard oil - oil obtained from mustard seeds and used in making soap colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oil - edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant safflower oil - oil from safflower seeds used as food as well as in medicines and paints hydnocarpus oil - oil from seeds of trees of the genus Hydnocarpus especially Hydnocarpus wightiana (Hydnocarpus laurifolia) babacu oil, babassu oil - fatty oil from kernels of babassu nuts similar to coconut oil cohune fat, cohune oil, cohune-nut oil - semisolid fat from nuts of the cohune palm; used in cooking and soap making almond oil, expressed almond oil, sweet almond oil - pale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds hedeoma oil, pennyroyal oil - aromatic oil from American pennyroyal hyssop oil - used chiefly in liqueurs spike lavender oil, spike oil - pale yellow essential oil obtained from spike lavender used in scenting soaps and cosmetics pennyroyal oil - oil from European pennyroyal having an odor like mint; used chiefly in soaps croton oil - viscid acrid brownish-yellow oil from the seeds of Croton tiglium having a violent cathartic action fuel oil, heating oil - a petroleum product used for fuel animal oil - any oil obtained from animal substances camphor oil - oil distilled from camphor resin grease, lubricating oil - a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) essential oil, volatile oil - an oil having the odor or flavor of the plant from which it comes; used in perfume and flavorings lipid, lipide, lipoid - an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates) mineral oil - a distillate of petroleum (especially one used medicinally as a laxative or stool softener) motor oil - oil used to lubricate the moving parts of a motor fusel oil - a mixture of amyl alcohols and propanol and butanol formed from distillation of fermented liquors stand oil - a thick oil comprised of linseed, tung, or soya oils which have been heated to over 300 C neroli oil - an odoriferous yellow oil found in orange flowers and used in perfumery and as a flavoring tall oil - an oil derived from wood pulp and used in making soaps or lubricants crude, crude oil, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil, oil - a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons shale oil - oil extracted from oil shale by heating flaxseed oil, linseed oil - a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints Chinese wood oil, tung oil - a yellow oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree chaulmoogra oil - an oil from chaulmoogra trees; used in treatment of skin diseases and leprosy lemon grass, lemongrass, lemongrass oil - an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines |
2. | ![]() oil paint - paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle | |
3. | ![]() atomic number 6, carbon, C - an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds fossil fuel - fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content oil - a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water resid, residual oil - oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled | |
4. | ![]() edible fat - oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue margarine, marge, oleo, oleomargarine, margarin - a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter cooking oil - any of numerous vegetable oils used in cooking sweet oil - mild vegetable oil when used as food; especially olive or edible rape oil canola, canola oil - vegetable oil made from rapeseed; it is high in monounsaturated fatty acids coconut oil, copra oil - oil from coconuts corn oil - oil from the germs of corn grains cottonseed oil - edible oil pressed from cottonseeds olive oil - oil from olives palm oil - oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm groundnut oil, peanut oil - an oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap salad oil - any of several edible vegetable oils that can be used in salad dressings safflower oil - oil from seeds of the safflower plant sesame oil - oil obtained from sesame seeds soyabean oil, soybean oil - oil from soya beans sunflower oil, sunflower-seed oil - oil from sunflower seeds walnut oil - oil from walnuts madia oil - used as a substitute for olive oil drying oil - an oil that hardens in air due to oxidation and is often used as a paint or varnish base | |
Verb | 1. | oil - cover with oil, as if by rubbing; "oil the wooden surface" cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
2. | ![]() bless - give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his son" |