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oil
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[ noun ] (chemistry) a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
Used in print (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)In an essentially static system , an oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface unless the interfacial_tensions of the water phase are reduced by a surface-active_agent . Obviously hydrophobic ( oleophilic ) substances such_as greases , oils , or particles having a greasy or oily surface are more at_home in the center of a micelle than in the aqueous phase . Then during washing , the greasy soil rolls back at the edges so that emulsified droplets can disengage themselves from the sorbed oil mass , with the aid of mechanical action , and enter the aqueous phase . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)Now , driving the horse and sulky borrowed from Mynheer_Schuyler , he felt as if every bone was topped by burning oil and that every muscle was ready to dissolve into jelly and leave his big body helpless and unable to move . (Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)He had sold oil stock to Bob_Hope and Bing_Crosby in_person ; he had helped fight an oil-well fire that raged six days and nights . Related terms lipid grease mineral_oil chaulmoogra_oil calamus_oil hyssop_oil safflower_oil pennyroyal_oil spike_lavender_oil hydnocarpus_oil sassafras_oil pennyroyal_oil croton_oil babassu_oil almond_oil fuel_oil essential_oil tung_oil animal_oil motor_oil fixed_oil fusel_oil stand_oil neroli_oil tall_oil petroleum shale_oil linseed_oil cohune-nut_oil rape_oil camphor_oil anoint |
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[ noun ] (color) oil paint used by an artist
Synonyms Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)( It makes no real difference that Braque 's collage is on_paper and eked_out in charcoal , while Picasso 's is on canvas and eked_out in oil . ) It was because of this chain-reaction as_much_as for any other reason - that_is , because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape - that the identity of depicted_objects , or at_least parts of them , re-emerged in Braque 's and Picasso 's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there - but only as flattened silhouettes - than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913 . Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil , and transformed by this translation , did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat , interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to , if_not the illusion of , unmistakable three-dimensional identities . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant
Examples "lubricate the key" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) any of a group of oils that are obtained from plants
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