(a.) Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, 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.
Oiler
Definition:
(n.) One who deals in oils.
(n.) One who, or that which, oils.
Example Sentences:
(1) If they play Edmonton Oilers hockey they won't have a chance.
(2) Speaking to GQ magazine, the former Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon said: "One thing I read that was peculiar to me – [Seau] had never been diagnosed with a concussion.
(3) Victim to an era it almost single-handedly created, in which teams and fans leave behind old stadiums for flashy new ones, the Astrodome has been idle since 2008 – the Astros moved into a newer stadium downtown in 2000, and the Oilers American football team played there from 1968 before leaving Houston for a newer stadium in Tennessee in 1996.
(4) This game will mean a lot to Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, who held the same position with the Titans (or the Oilers, as they were known when he first arrived) for more than 16 years.
(5) He has made a huge, unthinkable amount of money, and made himself indispensable, too, as an orchestrator, an oiler of the wheels.
(6) Only once before had a team erased a bigger deficit to win a playoff game: the Buffalo Bills beat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in 1993.