Definition of Coal in English :

Define Coal in English

Coal meaning in English

Meaning of Coal in English

Pronunciation of Coal in English

Coal pronunciation in English

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Coal

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Noun

1. coal

fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

2. coal, ember

a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

Verb

3. char, coal

burn to charcoal

Example Sentences:
'Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything'

4. coal

supply with coal

5. coal

take in coal

Example Sentences:
'The big ship coaled'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Coal

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noun
1. 
a. 
a combustible compact black or dark-brown carbonaceous rock formed from compaction of layers of partially decomposed vegetation: a fuel and a source of coke, coal gas, and coal tar
See also anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite, peat1
b. 
(as modifier)
coal cellar
coal merchant
coal mine
coal dust
2. 
one or more lumps of coal
3.  short for charcoal
4.  coals to Newcastle
5.  haul someone over the coals
verb
6. 
to take in, provide with, or turn into coal

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Coal

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noun
1. 
a kind of dark brown to black, combustible, sedimentary rock resulting from the partial decomposition of vegetable matter away from air and under varying degrees of increased temperature and pressure over a period of millions of years: used as a fuel and in the production of coke, coal gas, water gas, and many coal-tar compounds
2. 
a piece (or collectively, pieces) of this rock
3. 
a piece of glowing or charred wood, coal, or similar substance; ember
4. 
charcoal
verb transitive
5. 
to reduce (a substance) to charcoal by burning
6. 
to provide with coal
verb intransitive
7. 
to take in a supply of coal

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Coal

see synonyms of coal
n.
1.
a. 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.
b. A piece of this substance.
2. A glowing or charred piece of solid fuel.
3. Charcoal.
v. coaled, coal·ing, coals
v.tr.
1. To burn (a combustible solid) to a charcoal residue.
2. To provide with coal.
v.intr.
To take on coal.

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