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What is the difference between oil and wildcat?

oil | wildcat |

As nouns the difference between oil and wildcat

is that oil is liquid fat while wildcat is a species of cat, felis silvestris .

As verbs the difference between oil and wildcat

is that oil is to lubricate with oil while wildcat is to drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.

As a adjective wildcat is

relating to oil exploration in an area where no oil has been found before.

oil

English

(wikipedia oil)

Alternative forms

* oyl (obsolete)

Noun

  • Liquid fat.
  • Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • An oil painting.
  • * 1973 , John Ulric Nef, Search for meaning: the autobiography of a nonconformist (page 89)
    • 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 oil

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lubricate with oil.
  • * 1900 , L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23:
    • 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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. 
  • To grease with oil for cooking.

    • Derived terms

    * unoil

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    wildcat

    English

    (wikipedia wildcat)

    Noun

  • A species of cat, Felis silvestris .
  • Any undomesticated species of cat.
  • * 2003 , CNN , April 24
    • Upon checking it out, we found a total of 13 newborn wildcats , nine newborn tigers and two newborn leopards.
  • (lb) A person who acts like a wildcat, often sexually.
  • * 2002 , The Young and the Restless (TV, September 26)
    • Anyone who's man enough to have landed a wildcat like you had to be quite a guy.
  • Industrial action carried out without authorization of trade unions; short for "wildcat strike" or "wildcat action".
    • A wildcat broke out after the management announced the plan for redundancy.
  • (lb) A caliber of ammunition derived by amending another type of cartridge and not made by commercial manufacturers.
  • (lb) An offensive formation characterized by a direct snap to a running back and an unbalanced offensive line.
  • (lb) A wheel that can be adjusted so as to revolve either with, or on, the shaft of a capstan.

    • Related terms

    * bobcat * cat * Scottish wild cat * wild cat * African wildcat * desert cat

    See also

    * (projectlink)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to oil exploration in an area where no oil has been found before.
  • Unauthorized by the proper authorities.
  • :* Jewish settlers have also been active putting up five new wildcat outposts on hilltops in the West Bank to try to thwart their Prime Minister Ariel Sharon... (CNN , 2003.06.15)
  • (lb) Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe.
  • * 1946 , Sigurd Jay Simonsen, The Mongrels
    • Then the development of the home country was neglected for some wildcat idea of bringing up the backward people of other lands.

    Derived terms

    * wildcat strike

    Verb

    (wildcatt)
  • To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.
    • You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east.

    Derived terms

    * wildcatter