OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2676

oil

/ɔɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aceite • saín • óleo
Liquid fat.
Oil is mostly found in Saudi Arabia and is transported all over the world.
petróleo
Petroleum.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an…
aceite vegetal
Oil paint.
I prefer to paint in oil
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 2677

oil

/ɔɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aceitar
To lubricate with oil.
Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, an…
Platform faces in Holland are further back from the track than they are in Britain, and it is a common thing to see a driver standing quite comfortably between his engine and the p…
engrasar
To grease with oil for cooking.