Oil (disambiguation)

Oil is any of a number of nonpolar, hydrophobic, and viscous liquids.

Oil also often refers to:

  • Big Oil, a name used to collectively describe major oil corporations.
  • Cooking oil, any liquid fat used in food preparation.
  • Lubricant, a substance that reduces friction between surfaces.
    • Lubrication, using a lubricant to reduce friction.
    • Motor oil, any lubricant used in internal combustion engines.
  • Petroleum (crude oil), naturally occurring liquid found beneath the Earth's surface, or a derived product:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Art

  • Oil paint, paint with pigments suspended in an oil
  • Oil painting, the process of using paints based on oils

Music

  • Oil (band), a group of Californian heavy metal musicians
  • OiL, a band from Pennsylvania now called CKY
  • Oil: Chicago Punk Refined, a compilation CD of punk bands from Chicago, U.S.
  • Midnight Oil, also known as "The Oils", an Australian rock band

Television

Series

  • Oil, an early title of the U.S. TV series Blood & Oil
  • Oil, the original title of 1980s soap opera Dynasty

Episodes

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Oil (film), a 2009 Italian documentary
  • Oil!, a novel by Upton Sinclair published in 1927

Organizations

Technology

  • Ontology Inference Layer or Ontology Interchange Language, an ontology infrastructure for the Semantic Web
  • OSEK Implementation Language, a description language used in OSEK systems

See also

  • All pages with titles containing OIL or OILs
  • All pages with titles beginning with Oil
  • All pages with titles beginning with OIL
  • Langues d'oïl (in Romance languages)
  • OYL (disambiguation)
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