HOW TO PRONOUNCE
oil
/ɔɪl/
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What does oil mean?
noun
- Liquid fat.
- Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
- Petroleum.
More meanings (9)
noun
- An oil painting.
- Oil paint.
- Abbreviation of oxygen-iodine laser.
verb
- To lubricate with oil.
- To grease with oil for cooking.
- To fuel with oil.
- To say in an unctuous manner.
proper noun
- A surname from Indonesian
- A township in Perry County, Indiana, United States, named after Oil Creek (Ohio River tributary).
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IPA pronunciation
/ɔɪl/
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See this word in context.
The government's past economic diversification efforts have moderated the severity of the downturn but failed to offset oil and gas revenue losses.
Hour after hour this had continued—the darkness had fallen and the room was dim from the light of two smoky oil lamps.
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“I've got to have that money. There's no more oil for the stove, and I must buy some more meal tickets to-night.”
I have issued orders, and in the future the children shall receive all of the cod-liver oil that by rights is theirs.
The Texas myth as imagined by non-Texans is coming to embody oil millionaires in airplanes instead of horsemen with six-shooters and rifles.