Coal

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.

   “The coal in this region was prized by ironmasters in centuries past, who mined it in the spots where the drainage methods of the day permitted.”

2. isim A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.

   “Put some coal on the fire.”

3. isim A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)

   “Put some coals on the fire.”

4. isim A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.

   “hot coals”

5. isim Charcoal.
6. isim Content of low quality.

   “I'm so sick of seeing this coal online.”

7. isim Bombs emitting black smoke on impact.
8. isim Money.
9. fiil To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships or locomotives).

   “1863, Colonial Secretary to Commander Baldwin, USN shortly after that she coaled again at Simon's Bay; and that after remaining in the neighbourhood of our ports for a time, she proceeded to Mauritius, where she coaled again, and then returned to this colony.”

10. fiil To supply with coal.

    “to coal a steamer”

11. fiil To be converted to charcoal.

    “After the initial burn the goal of any good fire should be coaling; that is, creating a bed of solid coals that will sustain the fire.”

12. fiil To burn to charcoal; to char.

    “Char-coal of roots, coaled into great pieces.”

13. fiil To mark or delineate with charcoal.

    “[…] marvailing, he coaled out these rithms upon the wall near to the picture”

14. sıfat Black like coal; coal-black.

    “... his coal hair / the corners of his warm smile / the blue of his gentle eyes. I wanted to explore him as Sir Francis Drake explored the New World. I wanted to tell my secrets to him as a Roman Catholic does in confession.”

15. özel isim An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri, United States, named after early settler Stephen Coale.
16. özel isim An unincorporated community and coal town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
17. özel isim Four townships in the United States, in Missouri, Ohio (2), and Pennsylvania, listed under Coal Township.