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Charcoal

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Noun

1. charcoal, wood coal

a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air

2. charcoal, fusain

a stick of black carbon material used for drawing

3. charcoal, charcoal gray, charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey

a very dark grey color

4. charcoal

a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material

Verb

5. charcoal

draw, trace, or represent with charcoal

Adjective

6. charcoal, charcoal-gray, charcoal-grey

of a very dark grey

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Charcoal

see synonyms of charcoal
noun
1. 
a black amorphous form of carbon made by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air: used as a fuel, in smelting metal ores, in explosives, and as an absorbent
activated carbon
2. 
a stick or pencil of this for drawing
3. 
a drawing done in charcoal
4.  short for charcoal grey
verb
5. (transitive)
to write, draw, or blacken with charcoal

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Charcoal

see synonyms of charcoal
noun
1. 
a porous, amorphous form of carbon produced by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter and used for decolorizing sugar and food, in filters, as a gas absorbent, fuel, etc.
2. 
a pencil made of this substance
3. 
a drawing made with such a pencil
4. 
a very dark gray or brown, almost black
verb transitive
5. 
to write or draw with charcoal
6. 
to charbroil

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Charcoal

see synonyms of charcoal
n.
1. A black, porous, carbonaceous material, 85 to 98 percent carbon, produced by the destructive distillation of wood and used as a fuel, filter, and adsorbent.
2.
a. A drawing pencil or crayon made from this material.
b. A drawing executed with such a pencil or crayon.
3. A dark grayish brown to black or dark purplish gray.
tr.v. char·coaled, char·coal·ing, char·coals
1. To draw, write, or blacken with a black, carbonaceous material.
2. To charbroil.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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