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. James Conroy:

   High unemployment, extremely depressed oil prices and a shift toward online shopping will present challenges for us as we progress through the next six to 12 months.

2. Domenico Pratic:

   Even though canola oil is a vegetable oil, we need to be careful before we say that it is healthy, based on the evidence from this study, canola oil should not be thought of as being equivalent tooils with proven health benefits.

3. Tullow Oil:

   While we have always believed that a joint Uganda-Kenya export pipeline was the most cost-effective option, we are clear that both Uganda and Kenya’s oil resources can be developed separately.

4. Phin Ziebell:

   On the one hand you have the OPEC output cuts and there's some geopolitical issues around Iran. But the demand outlook is muted and U.S. supply is perennially good from shale oil, which seems to have structurally changed the nature of the oil market.

5. Samson Mokoena:

   So many people here already have upper respiratory diseases because of the pollution. We get itchy eyes, running noses, asthma. All because of the petrochemical plants and oil refineries and coal stations around here haven't bothered to meet restrictions.