English Dictionary

oil

IPA（発音記号）

/ɔɪl/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 限定用法

Liquid fat. / Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant. / (countable) An oil painting. / (painting) Oil paint.

日本語の意味

液体の脂肪、油脂 / 燃料または潤滑剤として使用される石油由来の液体 / 油絵（絵画としての油彩画） / 油絵に使用される油性の絵具

She added a splash of oil to the pan before sautéing the onions.

彼女は玉ねぎを炒める前に、フライパンに少量の油を入れた。

意味（1）

Liquid fat.

意味（2）

Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.

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 oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.

意味（3）

(countable) An oil painting.

Yet, in another way, I was unable to put Picasso's oils in the same class as Cezanne's, or even (which will no doubt shock many readers) as Renoir's.

意味（4）

(painting) Oil paint.

I prefer to paint in oil

意味（5）

(attributive) Containing oil, conveying oil; intended for or capable of containing oil.

oil barrel; oil pipe

oils （ plural ）