COAL
\kˈə͡ʊl], \kˈəʊl], \k_ˈəʊ_l]\
Definitions of COAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
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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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To burn to charcoal; to char.
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To mark or delineate with charcoal.
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To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
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To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
By Oddity Software
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A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
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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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To burn to charcoal; to char.
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To mark or delineate with charcoal.
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To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
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To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
By Noah Webster.
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A natural fuel formed by partial decomposition of vegetable matter under certain environmental conditions.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To supply with coal.
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A combustible substance derived from ancient vegetation, found in beds or veins in the earth; a piece of partly burned wood.
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Coaly.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The charred or incandescent mass left after the incomplete combustion of any material, such as wood, consisting largely of carbon.
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A black or brownish, amorphous, combustible substance, consisting chiefly of carbon, but generally harder and more compact, and containing bitumen and earthy impurities. It is the result of the transformation of vegetable matter, mainly woody fiber, into a substance richer in carbon by the partial elimination of oxygen and hydrogen.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
