Oil vs Leak - What's the difference?
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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.
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
A divulgation, or disclosure, of information held secret until then.
The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred.
(computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
An act of urination.
To allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.
To reveal secret information.
(obsolete) Leaky.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
As nouns the difference between oil and leak
is that oil is while leak is a crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.As a verb leak is
to allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.As an adjective leak is
(obsolete) leaky.oil
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.
Derived terms
* unoilAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----leak
English
Noun
(leak) (en noun)- a leak in a roof
- a leak in a boat
- a leak in a gas pipe
- The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
- The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
- The press must have learned about the plan through a leak .
- resource leak
- memory leak
- I have to take a leak .
Verb
(en verb)- The faucet has been leaking since last month.
- ''Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Yet is the bottle leake , and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].
