Coal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A natural dark brown to black graphitelike material used as a fuel, formed from fossilized plants and consisting of amorphous carbon with various organic and some inorganic compounds.
  • n. A piece of this substance.
  • n. A glowing or charred piece of solid fuel.
  • n. Charcoal.
  • v. To burn (a combustible solid) to a charcoal residue.
  • v. To provide with coal.
  • verb-intransitive. To take on coal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
  • n. A piece of coal used for burning. Note that in British English the first of the following examples would usually be used, whereas in American English the latter would.
  • n. A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.
  • n. A smouldering piece of material.
  • v. To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
  • v. To be converted to charcoal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
  • n. A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
  • v. To burn to charcoal; to char.
  • v. To mark or delineate with charcoal.
  • v. To supply with coal.
  • verb-intransitive. To take in coal.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A piece of wood or other combustible substance, either ignited or burning (a “live coal” or “glowing coal”), or burned out or charred (a “dead coal,” charcoal, cinder).
  • n. A solid and more or less distinctly stratified mineral, varying in color from dark-brown to black, brittle, combustible, and used as a fuel, not fusible without decomposition, and very insoluble.
  • n. Same as slack.
  • To burn to coal or charcoal; make into coal; char.
  • To mark or delineate with charcoal.
  • To provide with coal; furnish a supply of coal to or for: as, to coal a steamship or a locomotive.
  • To take in coal for use as fuel: as, the vessel coaled at Portsmouth.
  • n.
  • n. Coal which will not fuse together and cohere in masses when burned. It is desirable that coal should do this for forge fires in certain kinds of work.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. take in coal
  • n. a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
  • v. supply with coal
  • n. fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
  • v. burn to charcoal
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    coaled    coaling    coals   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    take-in    gather in    fragment    furnish    provide    supply    render    burn    combust   
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    bitumin    anthracite   
    Form
    coaled    coaling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    charcoal    char   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cole    Dole    Kohl    Nicole    Ole    Pole    Seoul    Sol    atoll    bole   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fuel    iron    charcoal    ash    grain    ore    tobacco    salt    corn    clay