coal in English dictionary

  • coal

    Meanings and definitions of "coal"

    • (uncountable) A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
    • (countable) 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.
    • (countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.
    • (countable) A smouldering piece of material.
    • To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
    • To be converted to charcoal.
    • noun
      (uncountable)
      A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
    • noun
      (countable)
      A piece of coal used for burning. Note that in British English either of the following examples could be used, whereas the latter would be more common in American English.
    • noun
      (countable)
      A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.
    • noun
      (countable)
      A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
    • noun
      Charcoal.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To be converted to charcoal.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To burn to charcoal; to char.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To mark or delineate with charcoal.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To supply with coal.
    • uncountable: carbon rock
    • countable: carbon rock
    • smouldering material
    • The natural, rocklike, brown to black derivative of forest-type plant material, usually accumulated in peat beds and progressively compressed and indurated until it is finally altered in to graphite-like material.
    • noun
      a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
    • noun
      fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
    • verb
      burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"
    • verb
      supply with coal
    • verb
      take in coal; "The big ship coaled"

    Synonyms of "coal" in English dictionary

    combust, fragment, provide are the top synonyms of "coal" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of coal

    • coal ( plural  coal  or coals)
    • coal ( third-person singular simple present coals, present participle coaling, simple past and past participle coaled)
    • coal (countable and uncountable, plural coals)
    • coal (third-person singular simple present coals, present participle coaling, simple past and past participle coaled)
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