adj
Meaning 1
Black like coal; coal-black.
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adj
Black like coal; coal-black.
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name
An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri, United States, named after early settler Stephen Coale.
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name
An unincorporated community and coal town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
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name
Four townships in the United States, in Missouri, Ohio (2), and Pennsylvania, listed under Coal Township.
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noun
A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
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noun
A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
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noun
A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
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noun
Charcoal.
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noun
Content of low quality.
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Usage: Internet, countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: gem
noun
Bombs emitting black smoke on impact.
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Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
Money.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
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verb
To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships or locomotives).
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verb
To supply with coal.
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verb
To be converted to charcoal.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To burn to charcoal; to char.
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verb
To mark or delineate with charcoal.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
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Synonyms: ember
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Broader terms: fragment
noun
fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
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Broader terms: fossil fuel, vegetable matter
Narrower terms: anthracite, anthracite coal, hard coal, bituminous coal, soft coal, lignite, brown coal, wood coal, steam coal
verb
take in coal
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Broader terms: take in, gather in
verb
supply with coal
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Broader terms: supply, provide, render, furnish
verb
burn to charcoal
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Synonyms: char
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Broader terms: burn, combust
History
From Middle English col, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (“coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian kööl (“coal”), Saterland Frisian Koole (“coal”), West Frisian koal (“coal”), Cimbrian kholl (“coal”), Dutch kool (“coal; carbon”), German Kohle (“coal”), Limburgish Kǫe̩l (“coal”), Luxembourgish Kuel (“coal”), Vilamovian köła (“coal”), Yiddish קויל (koyl, “coal”), Danish kul (“coal”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kol (“coal; carbon”), Jamtish kuł (“coal; carbon”), Norwegian Bokmål kol, kull (“coal”). Compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic gual (“coal”), Manx geayl (“coal”), Lithuanian žvi̇̀lti (“to glow, twinkle”), Persian زکال (zakâl), زکار (zekâr), زغال (zoġâl, “coal”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), all from the same root.
Across languages
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