oil

1. (verb) cover with oil, as if by rubbing; "oil the wooden surface"
Related Words: cover

2. (noun) paint used by an artist
Synonyms: oil color
Related Words: oil paint

3. (noun) a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
Related Words: Chinese wood oil, almond oil, animal oil, babacu oil, babassu oil, calamus oil, camphor oil, chaulmoogra oil, coal 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, linseed oil, lipid, lipide, lipoid, lubricating oil, mineral oil, motor oil, neroli 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

4. (verb) administer a sacred oil or ointment to in a religious ceremony of blessing
Synonyms: ambrocate, anele, anoint
Related Words: bless

5. (verb) apply lubricants to' "lubricate my car engine"
Synonyms: lube, lubricate
Related Words: adjust, set



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