Synonyms for oil
ɔɪloil

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1. oilnoun

   a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water

   Synonyms:
   petroleum, rock oil, crude oil, oil color, vegetable oil, fossil oil, crude, oil colour

2. oil, oil color, oil colournoun

   oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist

   Synonyms:
   petroleum, rock oil, crude oil, oil color, vegetable oil, fossil oil, crude, oil colour

3. petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oilnoun

   a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

   Synonyms:
   petroleum, rock oil, crude oil, oil color, vegetable oil, fossil oil, crude, oil colour

4. vegetable oil, oilverb

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

   Synonyms:
   petroleum, rock oil, crude oil, oil color, vegetable oil, fossil oil, crude, oil colour

5. oilverb

   cover with oil, as if by rubbing

   "oil the wooden surface"

   Synonyms:
   inunct, embrocate, anele, anoint

6. anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocateverb

   administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing

   Synonyms:
   embrocate, anele, anoint, inunct

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Fossil Fuel
   • Lipid
   • Oil
   • Oil Paint

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1. oilverb

   Synonyms:
   lubricate

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1. List of paraphrases for "oil":

   petroleum, yau, fluid, oils, hydrocarbons, petrol, crude, huile, naphtha, hydrocarbon, zeit, tanker, fuel, oil-, olie, olive, lubrication, petroleo, tar, bituminous, nafta, aweil, soyoil

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1. List of known nicknames for "Oil":

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1. Marc Short:

   I think, unfortunately, the president had many bad advisers who were basically snake-oil salesmen, giving him really random and novel ideas as to what the vice president could do.

2. Paddy Rogers:

   We have had enquiries. It is interesting that the first enquiries to move Iranian oil came from Europe not from China.

3. James Reeve:

   Markets believe there is an increasing chance of the dollar peg being broken in the medium term, given low oil prices and potential strains on the balance of payments, we don't believe that the peg will be broken.

4. Ric Spooner:

   Any change in sentiment tends to be amplified. Any change in direction in the oil markets has the potential to be risk driven by what's going on in the equity markets.

5. John Canally:

   Oil is a pretty big intra-day driver for stock prices because the energy sector is a big chunk of earnings.