Intelligence vs Oil - What's the difference?
intelligence | oil | Synonyms |
(uncountable) Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to learn and comprehend.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (countable) An entity that has such capacities.
* Tennyson
(uncountable) Information]], usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile [[activity, activities.
(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
(dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
* Clarendon
Liquid fat.
Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= An oil painting.
* 1973 , John Ulric Nef, Search for meaning: the autobiography of a nonconformist (page 89)
To lubricate with oil.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23:
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 To grease with oil for cooking.
Intelligence is a synonym of oil.
As nouns the difference between intelligence and oil
is that intelligence is (uncountable) capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to learn and comprehend while oil is .intelligence
English
(wikipedia intelligence)Noun
- Not so, however, with Tarzan, the man-child. His life amidst the dangers of the jungle had taught him to meet emergencies with self-confidence, and his higher intelligence resulted in a quickness of mental action far beyond the powers of the apes.
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- The great Intelligences fair / That range above our mortal state, / In circle round the blessed gate, / Received and gave him welcome there.
- He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favourites.
Synonyms
* (capacity of mind) wit, intellect, brightness * (entity) see * See alsoDerived terms
* artificial intelligence * machine intelligence * CIA * IQ * * * SISoil
English
(wikipedia oil)Alternative forms
* oyl (obsolete)Noun
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=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.}}
- 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.
Derived terms
* burn the midnight oil * castor oil * cod liver oil * cottonseed oil * croton oil * crude oil * essential oil * evening primrose oil * gorli oil * grapeseed oil * mineral oil * motor oil * mustard oil * neck oil * North Sea oil * oil baron * oil field * oilman * oil paint * oil painting * oil refinery * oil sand * oil shale * oilskin * oilsmoke * oil stove * oil tanker * oil well * oily * olive oil * peak oil * pine oil * pour oil on troubled waters * rape oil * rapeseed oil * rock oil * sesame oil * shale oil * snake oil * sunflower oil * sweet oil * tall oil * tung oil * valve oil * vegetable oilVerb
(en verb)- Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring.
