Usually means: Organic substance used for energy.
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We found 64 dictionaries that define the word oil:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. oil: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. oil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oil: Vocabulary.com
  6. Oil, oil: Wordnik
  7. oil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. oil: Wiktionary
  9. oil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oil: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. oil: Dictionary.com
  13. oil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Oil (TV series), Oil (The Young Ones), Oil (band), Oil (disambiguation), Oil (film), Oil, Oil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Oil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. oil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. oil: Rhymezone
  18. oil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. oil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Oil: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. oil: Free Dictionary
  22. oil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. oil: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. oil: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. oil: Online Etymology Dictionary

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. oil: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Oil: Energy Dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. OIL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Oil (liquid), oil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Oil (liquid), oil: Medical dictionary
  4. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. OIL: Acronym Finder
  5. OIL: Three Letter Words with definitions
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. oil: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Oil: Easton Bible
  2. Oil: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Oil: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. oil, oil: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Oil: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. O.I.L: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Oil: Body Building
  3. Oil: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. oil: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  7. OIL: Power Engineering

(Note: See oiled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Liquid fat.
noun:  Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
noun:  Petroleum.
noun:  (countable) An oil painting.
noun:  (painting) Oil paint.
noun:  (attributive) Containing oil, conveying oil; intended for or capable of containing oil.
verb:  (transitive) To lubricate with oil.
verb:  (transitive) To grease with oil for cooking.
verb:  (transitive) To fuel with oil.
verb:  To say in an unctuous manner.
noun:  A surname from Indonesian
noun:  Abbreviation of oxygen-iodine laser.

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