heating oil
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈhiːtɪŋ ɔɪl/
- UK
:
gasóleo de calefacción
- The homeowner purchased heating oil to keep the house warm during winter.
- heating oil prices
- heating oil and gasoline
- crude heating oil
Examples
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Gasoline and heating oil prices spiked in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita.
Academic text (2007) -
The cold weather will increase the consumption demand for heating oil and thereby cause the net demand function, f(change N), to shift upwards.
Academic text (2001) -
One obvious strategy is to heat more homes with natural gas instead of heating oil.
Blog text (24) -
Germany still has over 10 million heating oil units installed.
Blog text (29) -
Alcohol can also be used for heating homes, especially for homes currently using heating oil.
Blog text (31) -
In other news the Building Industry of Landlords today expressed concern over the latest increase in heating oil prices.
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I will first consider the effect of a spell of unusually cold weather on the market for heating oil.
Academic text (2001) -
In 2006, the year after the CO2 peak, heating oil consumption took a major drop.
Blog text (34) -
That's why 1.4 million households in the Northeast have switched away from heating oil in the last 8 years.
Blog text (21) -
And in the Midwest, because they can't afford to pay for home heating oil, that's what's going to happen.
Synonyms
41
3.8
A clear oil used as a fuel for lamps, heaters, and some engines
5
3.5
A heavy oil that heats buildings and runs engines
2
2.4
An oil that people burn in lamps and heaters
1
6.3
People make fuel by heating shale rock to release oil
1
7.6
An oil made from coal that burns easily in lamps and heaters
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'heating oil' is compositional: 'heating' (the act or mechanism of raising temperature) modifies 'oil' to indicate oil used for heating. This straightforward modifier+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and easily inferable, so a B1 learner who knows both words would understand the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase heating oil comes from the simple image of oil used for heating: people put it in a tank or burner and burned it to warm their homes, so heating oil today means oil used as fuel 'to heat' buildings.