Oil (disambiguation)
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In the most general sense, an oil is any liquid not miscible with water.
Oil usually refers to:
- Petroleum (or crude oil), a fossil fuel
- Lubricants or lubrication
- Edible oil or cooking oil
It may also refer to:
- Oil paint and oil painting, using paints based on vegetable oils
- Big Oil, major oil corporations
Arts and entertainment
- Oil (band), a group of Californian heavy metal musicians
- OiL (band), a band from Pennsylvania that preceded CKY
- Oil: Chicago Punk Refined, a compilation CD of punk bands from Chicago, U.S.
- Oil, the original title of the 1980s American soap opera Dynasty
- "Oil" (Dynasty), the debut episode of Dynasty
- Oil!, a novel by Upton Sinclair published in 1927
The acronym OIL may refer to:
- The Office of Infrastructure and Logistics (European Commission) in Luxembourg
- Ontology Inference Layer or Ontology Interchange Language, an Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web
- Oil India Ltd, a company
- Operation Iraqi Liberation, the US military codename for the 2003 invasion of Iraq
[edit] See also
- Langues d'oïl (in Romance languages)

