sweet oil
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- noun
- /swit ɔɪl/
:
aceite suave
- God chose to put all that sweet oil, after the great flushing, under Muslim land.
Examples
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Oil, sweet oil.
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She drizzled sweet oil over the freshly baked bread to give it a rich taste.
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This method results in very sweet oil with slightly higher levels.
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And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 per barrel!
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Today's unrest is partly the result of U.S. energy policy that propped up dictators throughout the region so we could keep getting sweet, sweet oil.
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For the salad dressing, I decided to use a combination of vinegar and sweet oil to enhance its flavor.
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The recipe calls for sweet oil to be mixed with herbs for a delicious marinade for the chicken.
Synonyms
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A liquid fat from plants used for cooking and salad dressings
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A liquid made by pressing olives used for cooking and salads
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An oil made from plants that you use for cooking
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Oil from plants or seeds used to cook food
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An oil from sesame seeds that people use to add flavor to food
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Oil made from sunflower seeds used for cooking and food
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A yellowish liquid from mustard seeds that people use for cooking and massage
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A light yellow oil from the rapeseed plant used for cooking and as fuel or to oil machines
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A light vegetable oil used for salad dressing and cooking
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A light pale oil from safflower seeds people use for cooking and sometimes in paints or medicine
A light yellow oil from rapeseed used for cooking and to help machines run
A pale yellow oil from almonds that people use for cooking and for skin or hair
A pale yellow liquid used for cooking and salads that comes from sunflower seeds
An edible oil that comes from cotton seeds and is used for cooking
Antonyms
How Mild
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components suggest an oil with a pleasant or mild taste—combining 'sweet' and 'oil' gives an intuitively related meaning—so there is some compositional cue. However, the specific sense 'mild vegetable oil (e.g. olive or rapeseed)' and the non-literal use of 'sweet' (meaning mild/pleasant rather than sugary) is somewhat specialized and not fully predictable for a B1 learner, making the phrase only partially transparent.
Etymology
Sweet oil comes from an older use of sweet, which meant 'pleasant' to the taste rather than sugary. People used this name for mild, edible oils like olive or almond oil, so today sweet oil means a mild vegetable oil used for food.