Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Paraffin Oil |
Paraffin OilNoun1. British usage. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | Colorless liquid consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbns obtained from petroleum. The boiling point is usually above 360 degrees C. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Paraffin OilSynonym: paraffin (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fuel | Wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil; lamp oil, whale oil. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Paraffin Oil |
| English words defined with "paraffin oil": Eupione ♦ Pentadecane, Photogen ♦ Solar oil. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "paraffin oil": BOX-TRUCK WASHER ♦ casing puller, crude wax ♦ Douglas burner, Douglas lamp ♦ petroleum wax, pipe puller, pulling-machine operator ♦ rig operator ♦ slack wax ♦ tube puller ♦ WELL PULLER, work-over rig operator. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
paraffin oil | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "paraffin oil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الكيروسين (kerosene). (various references) | |
Danish | paraffinolie, belysningspetroleum (burning oil, domestic kerosene, illuminating oil), kerosine, kerosine distillate, lamp oil, rectified petroleum, signal oil). (various references) | |
Dutch | petroleum (burning oil, gasoline, kerosene, lamp oil, mineral naphtha, naphta, paraffin-oil, petrol, petroleum, rock oil, sprit), parrafine-olie, lampolie (burning oil, domestic kerosene, illuminating oil, illuminating oil), kerosene, kerosine, kerosine distillate, lamp oil, petrol, rectified petroleum, signal oil), kerosine (burning oil, kerosene, lamp oil, petrol). (various references) | |
Finnish | parafiiniöljy (paraffin). (various references) | |
French | pétrole lampant, pétrole (paraffin-oil), kérosine, kérosène, huile lampante, huile de paraffine. (various references) | |
German | petroleum (crude oil, kerosene, paraffin-oil, petroleum), Paraffinoel (burning oil, kerosene, lamp oil, petrol), Paraffinöl, Leuchtpetroleum (burning oil, domestic kerosene, illuminating oil), kerosene, kerosine, kerosine distillate, lamp oil, petrol, rectified petroleum, signal oil), Leuchtoel (burning oil, kerosene, lamp oil, petrol), Leuchtöl (burning oil, domestic kerosene, illuminating oil), kerosine, kerosine distillate, lamp oil, rectified petroleum, signal oil), Lampenoel (burning oil, kerosene, lamp oil, petrol), Feuerungsoel (burning oil, kerosene, lamp oil, petrol). (various references) | |
Greek | φωτιστικό πετρέλαιο (burning oil, domestic kerosene, illuminating oil, illuminating oil), kerosene, kerosine, kerosine distillate, lamp oil, rectified petroleum, signal oil). (various references) | |
Hungarian | világító petróleum (burning oil, lamp oil, paraffine oil). (various references) | |
Italian | petrolio illuminante (burning oil, domestic kerosene, illuminating oil), kerosine, kerosine distillate, lamp oil, rectified petroleum, signal oil), kerosene (burning oil, domestic kerosene, illuminating oil), kerosine, kerosine distillate, lamp oil, rectified petroleum, signal oil). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | araffinpay oilay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | petróleo de iluminação (burning oil, kerosene, lamp oil, petrol), petróleo (crude oil, kerosene lamp, oil, paraffin-oil, paragon, petroleum), querosene (burning oil, domestic kerosene, illuminating oil), kerosene, kerosine, kerosine distillate, lamp oil, mineral resources, rectified petroleum, signal oil), óleo de parafina. (various references) | |
Romanian | petrol (crude oil, naphtha, oil, petroleum). (various references) | |
Spanish | queroseno (burning oil, domestic kerosene, illuminating oil), kerosene, kerosine, kerosine distillate, lamp oil, rectified petroleum, signal oil). (various references) | |
Swedish | paraffinolja (neutral, neutral solvent). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dầu parafin. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Paraffin Oil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parafin oil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-f-i-i-l-n-o-p-r" | |
-3 letters: filarian, paraffin. | |
-4 letters: affinal, airfoil, filaria. | |
-5 letters: affair, anopia, farfal, farina, finial, florin, foliar, narial, parian, pilaff, pirana, planar, prolan, raffia, rapini, ripoff. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 61 66 66 69 6E 4F 69 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01100110 01100110 01101001 01101110 00100000 01001111 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r a f f i n   O i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0061 0066 0066 0069 006E 004F 0069 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50678467727275802497578 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
