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Definition: Oilfield |
OilfieldNoun1. A region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Oilfield |
| Specialty definitions using "oilfield": shaft drilling, sucking mud. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Kern River oilfield. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sherman oilfield, Cal. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Oilfield pump-jack 2" by Tammy Sharp Commentary: "Oilfield pump-jack, pumping crude oil. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Other areas of interest include refining technology, lube oil production technology, participation in downstream joint ventures and the establishment of joint ventures in the Kingdom to manufacture oilfield service equipment. (references) | |
Economic History | Azerbaijan | Trade: Exports--$1.7449 billion: oil and gas, chemicals, oilfield equipment, textiles, cotton. (references) |
Nigeria | Professions or skills deemed in short supply, for example deepwater oilfield technology, allow for a larger quota. (references) | |
Bahrain | Bahrain also receives a large portion of the net output and revenues from Saudi Arabia's Abu Saafa offshore oilfield. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Oilfield" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.08% of the time. "Oilfield" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.08% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.92% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Austria | Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equip. AG |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "oilfield"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | حقل نفط, حقل زيت. (various references) | |
Chinese | 油田. (various references) | |
Czech | ropné pole, ropné ložisko. (various references) | |
French | gisement de pétrole (oil field), champ de pétrole (oil field). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שדה נפט. (various references) | |
Italian | giacimento petrolifero. (various references) | |
Korean | 유전 (genetic, genetical, hereditary). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oilfielday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | campo petrolífero. (various references) | |
Russian | месторождение нефти. (various references) | |
Spanish | yacimiento petrolífero. (various references) | |
Thai | บ่อน้ำมันใต้ดินหรือทะเล. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нафтове родовище, нафтовий промисел. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vùng có dầu mỏ dầu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Oilfield" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hilfield, Silfield, Tiffield. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-i-l-l-o" | |
-2 letters: filled, foiled, lilied. | |
-3 letters: felid, field, filed, fille, fillo, flied, oiled, oldie. | |
-4 letters: defi, deil, delf, deli, dell, diel, dill, diol, dole, doll, fell, feod, fido, file, fill, filo, fled, floe, foil, fold, idle, idol, lido, lied, lief, life, lode. | |
-5 letters: del, die, doe, dol, eld, elf, ell, fed, fid, fie, fil, foe, ill. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-i-l-l-o" | |
+1 letter: jollified, mollified. | |
+5 letters: defibrillator. | |
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