Worse vs Oil - What's the difference?
worse | oil |
(bad)
More ill.
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (ill).
Less skillfully.
More severely or seriously.
(sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
(obsolete) To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
* (rfdate) Milton.
(obsolete) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
* Bible, Kings xiv. 12
That which is worse; something less good.
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.
As verbs the difference between worse and oil
is that worse is to make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit while oil is to lubricate with oil.As nouns the difference between worse and oil
is that worse is loss; disadvantage; defeat while oil is liquid fat.As an adjective worse
is comparative of bad.As an adverb worse
is comparative of badly pos=adverb.worse
English
Adjective
(head)- Your exam results are worse than before.
- The harder you try, the worse you do.
- She was very ill last week but this week she’s worse .
Derived terms
* go from bad to worse * worse for wearAdverb
(head)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.}}
Verb
(wors)- Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
Statistics
*Noun
- Judah was put to the worse before Israel.
- Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.
Anagrams
*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.