Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

salad oil

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English

Syllables: sal-ad oil
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any oil used in or as a salad dressing.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

An edible vegetable oil other than olive oil, as corn oil or sesame oil

Countable; Uncountable

noun

An edible vegetable oil that is winterized so that it remains liquid at cold temperatures. It is characterized by its light flavor, color, and mouthfeel, which make it ideal for industrial food applications such as the production of mayonnaise. (after 1962, usually): partially hydrogenated refined, bleached, and deodorized (RBD) soybean oil for industrial food manufacturing.

American usage; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"An entrepreneur named Anthony DeAngelis rented petroleum tanks in New Jersey and filled them with seawater, with the exception of just one smaller tank, nested inside a larger tank, which he filled with salad oil."
"Generally, palm oil and its more liquid fraction, palm olein, do not make good salad oils on their own due to high cloud point values."

Usage

Inflected Forms

salad oils (plural)

Phrases

salad dressing

Frequently Paired Words

salad dressing

Questions

What does salad oil mean?: Any oil used in or as a salad dressing.

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