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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
• Oilexco, (TSX: OIL, LON: OIL) is an oil and gas exploration and production company.

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.
• Midnight Oil (band), Known also as "The Oils" to fans. Australian rock band.
• 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
• Oklahoma Intercollegiate Legislature, a mock legislature for college students in Oklahoma

[edit] See also

• Langues d'oïl (in Romance languages)

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