What does motor oil mean?

Definition

Thick oil poured into an engine to keep its moving parts running smoothly.

Example sentences

• According to the manual it has to be synthetic motor oil, which of course costs twice as much.🔊

  According to the manual it has to be synthetic motor oil, which of course costs twice as much.

• I keep a bottle of engine oil in the trunk because this car needs topping up every month.🔊

  I keep a bottle of engine oil in the trunk because this car needs topping up every month.

• You could smell burnt motor oil from the other end of the street every time he started that old pickup.🔊

  You could smell burnt motor oil from the other end of the street every time he started that old pickup.

Related words

motor oil in other languages

• In Portuguese
• In French
• In Japanese