coal

[coal]

Coal is a mineral, a black rock that can be extracted from the earth and burned for fuel. Most of the electricity that's produced in the world is powered by the burning of coal.

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A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

Noun
a hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire

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

Verb
take in coal; "The big ship coaled"

Verb
supply with coal

Verb
burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

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n.
A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

n.
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.

v. t.
To burn to charcoal; to char.

v. t.
To mark or delineate with charcoal.

v. t.
To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.

v. i.
To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.

Coal

Coal , 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. 2. 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. &hand; 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. &hand; 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. 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, ∨ 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.

Coal

Coal, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coaled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Coaling.] 1. To burn to charcoal; to char. [R.]

Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces.

2. To mark or delineate with charcoal. Camden. 3. To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.

Coal

Coal, v. i. To take in coal; as, the steaer coaled at Southampton.

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

To burn to charcoal; to char.

To take in coal; as, the steaer coaled at Southampton.

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Usage Examples

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

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Other Usage Examples

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.