Coal

Noun

 * 1)  A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.
 * 4)  A smouldering piece of material.

Verb

 * 1) To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
 * 2) To be converted to charcoal.

Adjectives for Coal
dull; burning; glowing; red; roseate; glimmering; living; dying; soft; purloined; hard.

Verbs for Coal
bake on—s; char—; devour—; fire—; fuel with—; heave—; ignite—; kindle—; lay on—s; power by—; quench—; rake—; scuttle—; transport—; —darkens; —emits gas; —glows; —soils.

Hyponyms for Coal

 * anthracite, bitumin

Derived terms

 * bituminous coal, soft coal
 * coal ball
 * coal bed
 * coal black
 * coalboy


 * coal gas
 * coal hole
 * coal oil
 * coal tar
 * coal tit


 * coalmine
 * coals to Newcastle
 * channel coal
 * hard coal (see: anthracite)

Related terms

 * colliery

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
col:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: carbó
 * Chamicuro:
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 * German:
 * Greek: γαιάνθρακας, λιθάνθρακας
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خه‌ڵوزی به‌رد
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: јаглен
 * Manx: geayl
 * Navajo:
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 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Uyghur: كۆمۈر


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: въглен
 * Chinese:
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 * Hungarian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: уголёк
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Taos: ùypha’ána


 * Finnish:
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 * Greek: ,
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 * Macedonian:
 * Manx: geayl
 * Romanian:
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 * Arabic:
 * Bosnian: ugalj, ćumur
 * Breton: glaou
 * Catalan: carbó
 * Croatian: ugalj
 * Dutch: kool, steenkool
 * Esperanto: karbo
 * Finnish: kivihiili, hiili
 * French: charbon, houille, braises (hot coals)
 * German:
 * Hebrew: פחם (pekham)
 * Hindi: कोयला (koylā)
 * Indonesian: batubara
 * Interlingua: carbon
 * Italian: carbone, carbonella
 * Japanese: 石炭 (せきたん, sekitan)


 * Kurdish: kumirr
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: ogle
 * Lithuanian: anglis
 * Malay: arang batu
 * Polish: węgiel
 * Portuguese: carvão
 * Romanian: cărbune
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: угаљ, ћумур (non-standard)
 * Roman: ugalj, ćumur (non-standard)
 * Slovak: uhlie
 * Slovene: ogel, premog
 * Swedish: kol
 * Telugu: బొగ్గు (boggu)
 * Turkish: kömür
 * Welsh: glo

Anagrams

 * Acol
 * Caló
 * cola
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