oil
/ɔɪl
/- Ireland's heavy reliance on fossil fuels such as oil and coal is not sustainable for the future, he said.
- At the moment islanders have to rely on a mixture of oil, solid fuel and small hydro schemes which are unreliable and expensive.
Synonyms
- On August 5 a boat collided with the oil tanker causing more than 85 tons of oil to spill into the river and coastal wetlands.
- House wants to stick us with the tab for prolonging our destructive dependence on fossil fuels, foreign oil and dangerous nuclear technology.
- In 1912, a small economic boom was fueled by drilling for oil, but it was short-lived.
- The last group includes energy food, including animal and plant oil, starch and wine.
- Three bottles of high quality essential oils infused into pure, skin-softening organic apricot kernel oil.
- Biodiesel is an alternative fuel that can be made out of anything from organic canola oil to used cooking grease from fast-food restaurants.
- Coal tar is available as an ointment, cream, lotion, shampoo, bath oil and soap.
- These substances include soap film, body secretions, skin, hair, bath oils, and dirt.
- You can use soap substitutes, bath oils and moisturising creams or ointments to soothe, smooth and hydrate the skin in the treatment of dry skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis.
- Included among these compounds are acetaldehyde, ethyl acetate, and numerous other esters and fusel oils.
- They are chemical compounds which belong to the ‘fatty acid esters’ compounds of an oil and an alcohol.
- Blanding also paints landscapes and portraits in oil, acrylic, pastels and watercolor.
- The traditional painterly mediums of oil and watercolour remain the norm for the portraiture commissions.
- The paintings, oils on canvas, were large, and the paper works, also done in oil, were more painted than drawn.
- These oils on canvas rework that fulcrum of modernist painting, the grid.
- This remarkably representative exhibits of 42 oils and gouaches from that later period suggest why.
- The company deals in originals, oils, acrylics, watercolors and serigraphs.
- Place the balls onto a lightly oiled baking tray and bake them for about 20 minutes, so they are slightly browned.
- Lightly oil a 12-hole muffin tray then line each mould with a bacon rasher.
- After coupling to the coach, No. 823 was coaled manually and then had to reverse down the shed road to be oiled and greased for the return journey.
Synonyms
Phrases
oil and water
oil the wheels
Origin
Middle English: from Old Northern French olie, Old French oile, from Latin oleum '(olive) oil'; compare with olea 'olive'.
The English word oil goes back to Latin oleum, which referred especially to olive oil. If someone sits up writing or reading until very late they are burning the midnight oil, an expression looking back to the days when the main source of artificial light would be an oil lamp. Oil paints are traditionally used for portraits, and since the early 20th century the unkind verdict that someone is no oil painting has been a way of saying that they are not attractive. Water and oil cannot be mixed. People who are incompatible may be described as being like oil and water together. In classical times, there was a belief among seamen—recorded by the Roman statesman and scholar Pliny the Elder (ad 23–79)—that pouring oil into a stormy sea could calm the waves. This is probably what lies behind the proverbial expression pour oil on troubled waters, meaning to try to settle a disagreement by soothing those involved.
Rhymes
- movement
- movement area
- movement cure
- movement detector
- movement order
- movement permit
- movement response
- movement restriction
- movement sensation
- movement time
- move mountains
- move on (or move someone on)
- move over (or aside)
- mover
- mover and shaker
- move the goalpost
- move the goalposts
- move up a gear
- move with the times
- movida
- movie
- movie brat
- movie buff
- movie camera
- movie cowboy