English noun: oil |
| 1. | oil (substance) a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water |
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| Broader (hypernym) | lipid, lipide, lipoid |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | almond oil, animal oil, babacu oil, babassu oil, calamus oil, camphor oil, chaulmoogra oil, Chinese wood oil, cohune fat, cohune oil, cohune-nut oil, colza oil, croton oil, crude, crude oil, essential oil, expressed almond oil, fatty oil, fixed oil, flaxseed oil, fossil oil, fuel oil, fusel oil, grease, heating oil, hedeoma oil, hydnocarpus oil, hyssop oil, lemon grass, lemongrass, lemongrass oil, linseed oil, lubricating oil, mineral oil, motor oil, mustard oil, neroli oil, oil, pennyroyal oil, pennyroyal oil, petroleum, rape oil, rapeseed oil, rock oil, safflower oil, sassafras oil, shale oil, spike lavender oil, spike oil, stand oil, sweet almond oil, tall oil, tung oil, volatile oil |
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| 2. | oil (artifact) oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist |
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| Synonyms | oil color, oil colour |
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| Broader (hypernym) | oil paint |
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| 3. | oil (substance) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons |
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| Synonyms | crude, crude oil, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil |
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| Broader (hypernym) | fossil fuel, oil |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | resid, residual oil |
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| Substance holonym | atomic number 6, C, carbon |
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| 4. | oil (food) any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants |
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| Synonyms | vegetable oil |
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| Broader (hypernym) | edible fat |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | canola, canola oil, coconut oil, cooking oil, copra oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, drying oil, groundnut oil, madia oil, olive oil, palm oil, peanut oil, safflower oil, salad oil, sesame oil, soyabean oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, sunflower-seed oil, sweet oil, walnut oil |
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| Substance meronym | margarin, margarine, marge, oleo, oleomargarine |
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