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oil

/ɔɪl/ noun A2
  1. Liquid fat. (countable, uncountable)
  2. Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant. (countable, uncountable)
  3. Petroleum. (countable, uncountable) · Oil is found in countries such as Saudi Arabia and is transported all over the world.
  4. An oil painting. (countable)
  5. Oil paint. (countable, uncountable) · I prefer to paint in oil

Plural oils

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The night-light continued to burn on the chimney-piece, exhausting the last drops of oil which floated on the surface of the water.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1004 · C1
He rushed downstairs and sent somebody—they said the furnace man or somebody in the basement—out to a drug store for some oil and things to bind it up with.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 6 · C1
“It’s something soft,” said Delia, “that had oil on it.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 6 · C1
And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 7 · C1

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