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Oil Definition–noun | 1. | any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc. |
| 2. | a substance of this or similar consistency. |
| 3.<
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| 5. | Informal. unctuous hypocrisy; flattery. |
| 7. | Australian and New Zealand Slang. facts or news; information: good oil. |
–verb (used with object) | 8. | to smear, lubricate, or supply with oil. |
| 10. | to make unctuous or smooth: to oil his words. |
| 11. | to convert into oil by melting, as butter. |
–adjective | 12. | pertaining to or resembling oil. |
| 13. | using oil, esp. as a fuel: an oil furnace. |
| 14. | concerned with the production or use of oil: an offshore oil rig. |
—Idioms| 17. | pour oil on troubled waters, to attempt to calm a difficult or tense situation, as an argument. |
| 18. | strike oil, | a. | to discover oil, esp. to bring in a well. |
| b. | to have good luck, esp. financially; make an important and valuable discovery: They struck oil only after years of market research. |
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Lamp Definition–noun
| 2. | a container for an inflammable liquid, as oil, which is burned at a wick as a means of illumination. |
| 3. | a source of intellectual or spiritual light: the lamp of learning. |
| 4. | any of various devices furnishing heat, ultraviolet, or other radiation: an infrared lamp. |
| 5. | a celestial body that gives off light, as the moon or a star. |
| 7. | lamps, Slang. the eyes. |
–verb (used with object) | 8. | Slang. to look at; eye. |
—Idiom| 9. | smell of the lamp, to give evidence of laborious study or effort: His dissertation smells of the lamp. |
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