(n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.
(v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.
Example Sentences:
(1) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(3) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
(4) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
(5) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
(6) Group-2 mares (n = 32) were given a single dose of progesterone (625 mg, IM) in sesame oil.
(7) However, this inhibition was not found in rats treated with castor oil for 3 d. Moreover, 5-HT concentration in the midbrain significantly decreased in rats that acquired the adaptability for the occurrence of diarrhea.
(8) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(9) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(10) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
(11) Both fatty acid composition and the degree of lipid peroxidation were measured in this study in 23 OTC fish oil preparations.
(12) The effects of flaxseed oil on tissue amounts of individual saturated fatty acids were minimal, but amounts of monounsaturated fatty acids, especially C18:1, were depressed.
(13) Despite 50 years of criminalisation, illicit drugs are now the third most valuable industry in the world, after food and oil.
(14) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(15) If battery and EV prices fall more rapidly over the period, and the price of oil increases more rapidly, replacing the fleet with EVs could be cost-neutral.
(16) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(17) Interest in the antithrombotic potential of diets enriched with fish oil-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 PUFAs) prompted us to examine how these fatty acids, when taken preoperatively, affect hemostasis, plasma lipid levels, and production of prostacyclin (PGI2) by vascular tissues in atherosclerotic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
(18) A few blocks away there are streets full of empty buildings, signs that the oil boom of the past decade is long past.
(19) The latter oil mixture resulted in a predictable reduction in kidney PGE2 and 6-keto PGF1 alpha (hydrolysis product of PGI2), aortic 6-keto PGF1 alpha and serum TXB2.
(20) The medium-chain triglyceride oil supplementation did not influence the growth of these infants.
Vitta
Definition:
(n.) One of the oil tubes in the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
(n.) A band, or stripe, of color.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nematospiroides dubius, Corrigia vitta and Capillaria murissylvatici were important in discriminating between the parasite faunas at different sites.
(2) The adults are characterized by 4 dark postsutural mesonotal vittae, 1-2 bristles dorsally on the stem vein, the hairs on the ventral surface of r4 + 5 confined to the vein base, and the predominantly orange-yellow tergite I + II.
(3) The trematodes, Corrigia vitta and to a lesser degree Brachylaima recurva, had seasonal changes in abundance.
(4) Vitta said the drop in share prices noted by Carbon Tracker was due to a complex series of factors, including a cyclical dip in metallurgical coal demand.
(5) @OpenGovIndo @GuardianGDP October 24, 2014 Shrey Goyal and Saket Mani , India In India, the role of media was cited as a key way to engage the youth: Shweta Vitta (@ShwetaVitta) @ShreyGoyal @KumaraGuru By adopting solutions journalism.
(6) But Chiza Vitta, a credit analyst from Standard and Poor’s, said he did not believe coal was in a terminal decline, although its share of the US electricity market would diminish somewhat in the coming years.