Oil vs Salve - 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.
An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
Any thing or action that soothes or heals.
To calm or assuage.
To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
* Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV :
To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
* Spenser
* Milton
To salvage.
(obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
(obsolete) to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems
(obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse
To say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.
* Spenser
Oil is a related term of salve.
As a noun oil
is .As a verb salve is
.oil
English
(wikipedia oil)Alternative forms
* oyl (obsolete)Noun
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- 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 ----salve
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sealf, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(salv)- I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
- But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deeds.
- What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(salv)- He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
References
*Etymology 3
(etyl) (lena)Verb
(salv)- By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.