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Verb
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coals, plural;
  1. Provide with a supply of coal
    • - the coaling and watering of the engine
Noun
  1. A combustible black or dark brown rock consisting mainly of carbonized plant matter, found mainly in underground deposits and widely used as fuel
    • - a coal fire
  2. A red-hot piece of coal or other material in a fire
    • - the glowing coals
  1. (coal) fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
  2. (coal) char: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"
  3. (coal) ember: a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
  4. supply with coal
  5. take in coal; "The big ship coaled"
  6. Embers are the glowing, hot coals made of greatly heated wood, coal or other carbon-based material that remain after, or sometimes precede a fire. Embers can glow very hot, sometimes as hot as the fire which created them. ...
  7. Coal is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock normally occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure. ...
  8. (Coal (Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends)) Thomas and Friends (previously known as Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends) is a children's television series about the engines and other characters working on the railways of the Island of Sodor, and is based on The Railway Series books written by the ...
  9. (coal) A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel; A piece of coal used for burning. ...
  10. (Coal) A solid, brittle, more or less distinctly stratified, combustible carbonaceous rock, formed by partial to complete decomposition of vegetation; varies in color from dark brown to black; not fusible without decomposition and very insoluble. ...
  11. (Coal) A black or brownish-black solid, combustible substance formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter without access to air. ...
  12. (coal) A member of a group of easily combustible, organic sedimentary rocks composed mostly of plant remains and containing a high proportion of carbon.
  13. (Coal) A readily combustible black or brownish-black rock whose composition, including inherent moisture, consists of more than 50 percent by weight and more than 70 percent by volume of carbonaceous material. ...
  14. (Coal) A fossil fuel formed by the breakdown of vegetable material trapped underground without access to air. Coal is the primary starting material used in the Fischer-Tropsch process to synthesize diesel fuel.
  15. (Coal) A natural dark brown to black graphitelike material used as a fuel, formed from fossilized plants and consisting of amorphous carbon with various organic and some inorganic compounds.
  16. Coal is a fossil fuel that is composed primarily of carbon along with assorted other elements, including sulfur. ...
  17. (Coal) A fossil fuel composed mostly of carbon with traces of other elements. Coal is found in seams that can be extracted either by surface or underground mining.
  18. (Coal) a carbon-rich mineral deposit made of the remains of fossil plant life. It is first deposited as peat, but over time is buried, compressed and heated which changes it physically and chemically. ...
  19. (Coal (Geology)) When the geologist kicked the soccer ball into the net, she scored a coal man."
  20. (Coal) A brown or black sedimentary rock that forms from accumulated plant debris. A combustible rock that contains at least 50% (by weight) carbon compounds.
  21. (Coal) A combustible mineral substance (carbonized vegetable matter). In this report, the term includes its derivative, coke, which is formed by destructive distillation or imperfect combustion. Only statistics on the number of households using coal are collected in RECS. (See Fuel.)
  22. (Coal) A hard black or dark brown sedimentary rock formed by the decomposition of plant material. Used as fuel for a blacksmith's forge.
  23. (Coal) A rock composed of carbonaceous material capable of being burned, usually black, derived from plants that have partially decomposed in the absence of air, under pressure and temperature.
  24. (Coal) A sedimentary deposit formed from the accumulation and compaction of organic material, particularly ferns and tree ferns which were abundant in the Carboniferous swamps, rather like the Florida everglades of today. ...
  25. (Coal) A solid fossil fuel formed by heat and pressure from the remains of ancient plants in swampy areas