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Definition of 'Coal' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) coal
a black or dark brown mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel.

2.  coal
a piece of glowing, charred, or burned wood or other combustible substance.

3. (v.t.) coal
to burn to coal or charcoal.

4.  coal
to provide with coal.

5. (v.i.) coal
to take in coal for fuel.


Definition of 'Coal' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) coal
fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

2. (verb) ember, coal
a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

3. (verb) char, coal
burn to charcoal
"Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

4. (verb) coal
supply with coal

5. (verb) coal
take in coal
"The big ship coaled"


Definition of 'Coal' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) coal
hard black fuel
a coal fire; coal mining


Definition of 'Coal' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Coal
a thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal

2. (noun) Coal
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

3. (verb) Coal
to burn to charcoal; to char

4. (verb) Coal
to mark or delineate with charcoal

5. (verb) Coal
to supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer

6. (verb) Coal
to take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton


Definition of 'Coal' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  Coal
A natural fuel formed by partial decomposition of vegetable matter under certain environmental conditions.


Translation of 'Coal' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a black mineral burned for fuel, heat etc.

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Brazilian flag Brazilian: carvão Czech flag Czech: uhlí German flag German: die Kohle
Danish flag Danish: kul Greek flag Greek: κάρβουνο Spanish flag Spanish: carbón
Estonian flag Estonian: kivisüsi Farsi flag Farsi: زغال سنگ Finnish flag Finnish: hiili
French flag French: charbon Hebrew flag Hebrew: פֶּחָם Hindi flag Hindi: कोयला
Croatian flag Croatian: ugljen Hungarian flag Hungarian: szén Indonesian flag Indonesian: batu bara
Icelandic flag Icelandic: kol Italian flag Italian: carbone Japanese flag Japanese: 石炭
Korean flag Korean: 석탄 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: akmens anglys Latvian flag Latvian: akmeņogles
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