oil

noun

/ɔɪl/UK/ɔl/

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.

derived from ἔλαιον — “olive oil”
derived from oleum — “oil, olive oil”
derived from olie
inherited from oyle

Definitions

Liquid fat.
Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
3
Petroleum.
- Oil is found in countries such as Saudi Arabia and is transported all over the world.
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1. 4
  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.
2. 5
  Oil paint.
  - I prefer to paint in oil
3. 6
  To lubricate with oil.
  - Platform faces in Holland are further back from the track than they are in Britain, and it is a common thing to see a driver standing quite comfortably between his engine and the platform while oiling the motion.
  - The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
4. To grease with oil for cooking.
5. To fuel with oil.
6. 9
  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. Abbreviation of oxygen-iodine laser.
8. A surname from Indonesian
9. A township in Perry County, Indiana, United States, named after Oil Creek (Ohio River…
  A township in Perry County, Indiana, United States, named after Oil Creek (Ohio River tributary).

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at oil. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at oil. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at oil

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA