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cooking oil

cooking oil

7 1.0
Oil from plants or seeds used to cook food
  • noun
  • /ˈkʊkɪŋ ɔɪl/
translation icon : aceite de cocina
  • Before frying the vegetables, make sure to add some cooking oil to the pan.
  • cooking oil and food

And today's subject is cooking oils.

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Examples

  • So this time I sprayed the pan with cooking oil and I put a little bit of butter on the pan.

    Louie's Life

  • To date, some 400,000 needy people have been given rice, beans, cooking oil, and iodized salt.

    Blog text (21)

  • Come on, this stuff looks like cooking oil.

    Like Father Like Son (1987)

  • Also, why waste used cooking oil when it can be used for fuel?

    Blog text (26)

  • Get me a large bottle of cooking oil.

    Postal (2007)

  • The smell of street food and burnt cooking oil tickles my nose.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Don't use plain vegetable or cooking oil as these will turn rancid.

    Blog text (21)

  • Consumer-grade turkey fryers use a substantial quantity of cooking oil at high temperatures and pose a significant danger.

    Blog text (14)

  • Daily necessities, such as sugar, tea, meat, soap, cooking oil, electricity, and, for some households, gasoline for a motorcycle, are also major expenditures.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Soybeans are used for milk-substitute baby formula, livestock feed, newspaper ink, cooking oil, lubricants, and more.

    Blog text (8)

Synonyms

oil
vscooking oil
406 1.0

A liquid fat from plants used for cooking and salad dressings

is the term for fats used specifically when cooking or preparing meals
vegetable oil
vscooking oil
17 1.0

An oil made from plants that you use for cooking

is focused on use for preparing and heating food
salad oil
vscooking oil
1 1.4

A light vegetable oil used for salad dressing and cooking

is more about fats used broadly for cooking and frying

How Heat-Stable

peanut oil
5 1.8
lard
52 3.3
vegetable oil
17 1.0
cooking oil
7 1.0
olive oil
126 1.0

Surface Forms

cooking oil singular
cooking oils plural

Morphology

cooking + oil

The compound is fully compositional: 'cooking' (the process of preparing food) + 'oil' (a liquid fat) yields 'oil used for cooking.' This noun–noun combination is frequent and follows an obvious cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the meaning.

Etymology

Cooking oil is a simple name: cooking shows it is for food and oil is the liquid pressed from plants or seeds that people pour into a pan to fry or cook. So, cooking oil means 'oil used to prepare and cook food'.