Oil (disambiguation)
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Oil is any of a number of nonpolar, hydrophobic, and viscous liquids.
Oil most often refers to:
- Petroleum (crude oil), naturally occurring liquid found beneath the Earth's surface, or a derived product:
- Fuel oil, liquid fuel burned for heat or power
- Heating oil, liquid fuel used for building furnaces or boilers
- Lubricant, a substance that reduces friction between surfaces
- Lubrication, the process of using a lubricant to reduce friction between surfaces
- Motor oil, any of various lubricants used in internal combustion engines
- Cooking oil, a fat used in cooking, baking, and other food preparation
- Big Oil, a name used to collectively describe major oil corporations
Arts and entertainment
Art
- Oil paint, paint with pigments suspended in an oil
- Oil painting, the process of using paints based on oils
Music
- Oil (band), a group of Californian heavy metal musicians
- OiL, a band from Pennsylvania now called CKY
- Oil: Chicago Punk Refined, a compilation CD of punk bands from Chicago, U.S.
- Midnight Oil (band), also known as "The Oils," Australian rock band
Television and film
- Oil, the original title of the 1980s American soap opera Dynasty
- "Oil" (Dynasty), the debut episode of Dynasty
- "Oil" (The Young Ones), a 1982 episode of The Young Ones
- Oil (film), a 2009 Italian documentary film
- Oil, an early title of the U.S. TV series Blood and Oil
Literature
- Oil!, a novel by Upton Sinclair published in 1927
Organizations
- OIL (incorporations and corporate services), a provider of international incorporations and corporate services
- The Office of Infrastructure and Logistics (European Commission) in Luxembourg
- Oil India Ltd, a public sector oil exploration and production company
- Oil Insurance Limited, a mutual insurance company
- Oilexco (TSX: OIL, LON: OIL), an oil and gas exploration and production company
Technology
- Ontology Inference Layer or Ontology Interchange Language, an ontology infrastructure for the Semantic Web
- OSEK Implementation Language, a description language used in OSEK systems
See also
- Langues d'oïl (in Romance languages)
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