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Definition
An oil well drilled into the ground to extract petroleum.
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How it's used
Refers specifically to the infrastructure built to extract petroleum from underground reservoirs. While it is a technical term, it is used in news reports or discussions regarding energy resources and industrial geography. It is not a word used in casual daily conversation unless discussing geography or global economics.
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It turns out there are many oil wells near here.
Do you know where there are oil wells?
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
