coal
6 definitions found
coal - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Coal \Coal\ (k[=o]l), n. [AS. col; akin to D. kool, OHG. chol,
cholo, G. kohle, Icel. kol, pl., Sw. kol, Dan. kul; cf. Skr.
jval to burn. Cf. Kiln, Collier.]
1. A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited,
fragment from wood or other combustible substance;
charcoal.
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2. (Min.) 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.
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Note: This word is often used adjectively, or as the first
part of self-explaining compounds; as, coal-black; coal
formation; coal scuttle; coal ship. etc.
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Note: In England the plural coals is used, for the broken
mineral coal burned in grates, etc.; as, to put coals
on the fire. In the United States the singular in a
collective sense is the customary usage; as, a hod of
coal.
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Age of coal plants. See Age of Acrogens, under Acrogen.
Anthracite or Glance coal. See Anthracite.
Bituminous coal. See under Bituminous.
Blind coal. See under Blind.
Brown coal or Brown Lignite. See Lignite.
Caking coal, a bituminous coal, which softens and becomes
pasty or semi-viscid when heated. On increasing the heat,
the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent,
grayish black, cellular mass of coke is left.
Cannel coal, a very compact bituminous coal, of fine
texture and dull luster. See Cannel coal.
Coal bed (Geol.), a layer or stratum of mineral coal.
Coal breaker, a structure including machines and machinery
adapted for crushing, cleansing, and assorting coal.
Coal field (Geol.), a region in which deposits of coal
occur. Such regions have often a basinlike structure, and
are hence called coal basins. See Basin.
Coal gas, a variety of carbureted hydrogen, procured from
bituminous coal, used in lighting streets, houses, etc.,
and for cooking and heating.
Coal heaver, a man employed in carrying coal, and esp. in
putting it in, and discharging it from, ships.
Coal measures. (Geol.)
(a) Strata of coal with the attendant rocks.
(b) A subdivision of the carboniferous formation, between
the millstone grit below and the Permian formation
above, and including nearly all the workable coal beds
of the world.
Coal oil, a general name for mineral oils; petroleum.
Coal plant (Geol.), one of the remains or impressions of
plants found in the strata of the coal formation.
Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary.
To haul over the coals, to call to account; to scold or
censure. [Colloq.]
Wood coal. See Lignite.
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Coal \Coal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coaled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Coaling.]
1. To burn to charcoal; to char. [R.]
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Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces.
--Bacon.
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2. To mark or delineate with charcoal. --Camden.
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3. To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
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Coal \Coal\, v. i.
To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
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coal - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
coal
n 1: fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter
deposited in the Carboniferous period
2: a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and
is glowing or smoldering [syn: ember, coal]
v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest
fire will char everything" [syn: char, coal]
2: supply with coal
3: take in coal; "The big ship coaled"
coal - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Coal
It is by no means certain that the Hebrews were acquainted with
mineral coal, although it is found in Syria. Their common fuel
was dried dung of animals and wood charcoal. Two different words
are found in Hebrew to denote coal, both occurring in Prov.
26:21, "As coal [Heb. peham; i.e., "black coal"] is to burning
coal [Heb. gehalim]." The latter of these words is used in Job
41:21; Prov. 6:28; Isa. 44:19. The words "live coal" in Isa. 6:6
are more correctly "glowing stone." In Lam. 4:8 the expression
"blacker than a coal" is literally rendered in the margin of the
Revised Version "darker than blackness." "Coals of fire" (2 Sam.
22:9, 13; Ps. 18:8, 12, 13, etc.) is an expression used
metaphorically for lightnings proceeding from God. A false
tongue is compared to "coals of juniper" (Ps. 120:4; James 3:6).
"Heaping coals of fire on the head" symbolizes overcoming evil
with good. The words of Paul (Rom. 12:20) are equivalent to
saying, "By charity and kindness thou shalt soften down his
enmity as surely as heaping coals on the fire fuses the metal in
the crucible."
coal - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "coal":
alcohol, anthracite, ash, ashes, benzine, blaze, blister, brand,
briquette, brown coal, bunker, burn, burn in, burn off, burnable,
burning ember, butane, calx, carbon, cast, cater, cauterize, char,
charcoal, cinder, clinker, coke, combustible, coom, crack, crow,
cupel, detonate, dope, dross, ebon, ebony, ember, ethane, ethanol,
explode, feed, fill up, fireball, firebrand, firing, flame,
flammable, flammable material, forage, found, fuel, fuel additive,
fuel dope, fuel up, fulminate, fume, gas, gas carbon, gas up,
gasoline, heptane, hexane, inflammable, inflammable material, ink,
isooctane, jet, jet fuel, kerosene, lava, lignite, live coal,
methane, methanol, natural gas, night, octane, oil, oxidate,
oxidize, paraffin, parch, peat, pentane, pitch, propane,
propellant, provender, provision, purvey, pyrolyze, raven, reek,
refuel, rocket fuel, scorch, scoria, sea coal, sear, sell, singe,
slag, sloe, smoke, smudge, smut, solder, soot, stoke, sullage,
swinge, tar, top off, torrefy, turf, vesicate, victual, vulcanize,
weld
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