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Liquid fat.
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Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
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An oil painting.
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Oil paint.
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I prefer to paint in oil
Examples of oil in a Sentence
The warm farmhouse smelled of gun oil and breakfast.
Bacteria can process toxic wastes and oil spills into harmless biodegradable materials.
But it sure made you burn the night oil to keep up the grades.
There are considerable forests of oil palms, rubber trees and vines, and timber and dyewood trees.
Next the Wizard poured a pool of oil from the can upon the glass floor, where it covered quite a broad surface.
Local industries include the manufacture of coarse cloth, esparto fabrics, oil and flour.
You can also make a full dinner of the side dishes, such as asparagus and mushrooms sautéed in a light olive oil.
Although oil is more traditional, broth is a healthier and lighter option.
This oil generally acts as an excellent preventive of this and other insect attacks.
Entrée choices include meat, fish and chicken cooked in flavored broths or oil.
The olive-growing area occupies about 3.5% of the total area of the country, and the crop in 1905 produced about 75,000,000 gallons of oil.
Cottolene (with beef stearin, cooking oil).
Tzatziki is made from a thick yogurt, shredded cucumber, garlic, fresh dill, olive oil and salt.
The croutons are one-inch sliced triangles lightly fried in oil and vinegar.
Couples share a cooking pot where they prepare their own meals fondue-style, clinking forks as they dip meat and vegetables into broth or oil.
Exotic side dishes range from truffle oil creamed corn to black forbidden rice.
Cloudy amber maybe clarified in an oil-bath, as the oil fills the numerous pores to which the turbidity is due.
The digestion of fat or oil has not been adequately investigated, but its decomposition in germinating seeds has been found to be due to an enzyme, which has been called lipase.
The log should be washed in fresh water when practicable, to prevent oxidization of the wheels, and be lubricated with suitable oil through a hole in the case.
It is insoluble in water,' but readily soluble in carbon bisulphide, sulphur chloride and oil of turpentine.
The infusion contains very little of the oil and is of very slight value.
Water-melons, sun-flowers and flax, both the last two for oil, are usual crops.
There are also some oil 2 Persian census in - 1884; 25,28 - 4 - Males, 28,323 females.
It increased the jurisdiction of the Commission by placing under the act express companies, sleeping-car companies and pipe lines for the transportation of oil.
In that most largely used, known as " creosoting," dead oil of tar, to the amount of some 3 gallons per sleeper, is forced into the wood under pressure, or is sucked in by vacuum, both the timber and the oil being heated.
Holden developed the use of liquid fuel on the Great Eastern railway to a point beyond the experimental stage, and used it instead of coal with the engines running the heavy express traffic of the line, its continued use depending merely upon the relative market price of coal and oil.
As to lighting, the oil lamp has been largely displaced by gas and electricity.
A former trade in oil and sealskin has decayed, owing to the smaller number of whales and seals remaining about the islands.
Israel) the corn, the new wine and the oil, and have bestowed on her silver and gold in abundance which they have wrought into a Baal image " (Hos.
Parkersburg is the see of a Protestant Episcopal bishop. Oil, coal, natural gas and fire-clay abound in the neighbouring region, and the city is engaged in the refining of oil and the manufacture of pottery, brick and tile, glass, lumber, furniture, flour, steel, and foundry and machine-shop products.
The city has various manufactures, including flour, cotton-seed oil, lumber, furniture and farm implements.
In addition to being the principal emporium for the Austrian traffic on the Elbe, Tetschen has a considerable industry, its products comprising chemicals, oil, soap, cotton stuffs, plaster of Paris, glazed and coloured paper, cellulose, beer, flour and preserved fish.
The island lacks water, and is dusty during drought, but is fertile, producing fruit, wine and olive oil; the indigenous flora comprises Boo species.
Pop. (1901), 4135 It is in the midst of the oil region of Canada, and numerous wells in the vicinity have an aggregate output of about 30,000,000 gallons of crude oil per annum, much of which is refined in the town.
There are, however, flour mills, oil and soap works,, and the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranee Railway Company have large workshops.
They are minute worms with coloured oil drops (green, olive green or orange) contained in the epidermis.
Largely present in olive oil and other saponifiable vegetable oils and soft fats; also present in animal fats, especially hog's lard.
The chief constituent of palm oil; also contained in greater or less quantities in human fat, olive oil, and other animal and vegetable fats.
Triacetin, C 3 H 5 (O C 2 H 3 0) 3, is apparently contained in cod-liver oil.
Glycerin is useless as a food and is not in any sense a substitute for cod-liver oil.
Other thriving local industries include the manufacture of oil, soap, flour, leather, alcohol and esparto grass rugs.
They pray over their sick and, when so requested, anoint them with oil.
The imports, which consist chiefly of machinery, fruits (dried and fresh), wie, oil and textiles, do not much exceed half a million sterling annually.
The products of the territorial coast lands are sugar, cotton, tobacco, maize, palm oil, coffee, fine woods and medicinal plants.
In the city are machine and car shops of the International & Great Northern railway, and cottoncompresses, and there are manufactures of cotton-seed oil, &c. Taylor, named in honour of Gen.
Sunflowers are very extensively grown for oil in the government of Kuban and elsewhere, and also some flax.
But all these are insignificant in comparison with the mineral oil industry of Baku, which in normal times yields annually between ten and eleven million tons of crude oil (naphtha).
The refined oil is exported as kerosene or petroleum, the heavier refuse (mazut) is used as fuel.
Manufacturing industry is confined to a few articles and commodities, such as cement, tea, tin cans (for oil), cotton goods, oil refineries, tobacco factories, flour-mills, silk-winding mills (especially at Shusha and Jebrail in the south of Elisavetpol), distilleries and breweries.
Many of the oil wells at Baku were burned, and massacres took place at that town, at Shusha, at Erivan, at Tiflis, at Batum, at Jebrail and at other places.