Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word COAL

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Definitions of COAL

1. Charcoal.
2. (uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
3. (countable) A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
4. (countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
5. (intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships or locomotives).
6. (transitive) To supply with coal.
7. (intransitive) To be converted to charcoal.
8. (transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.
9. (transitive) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
10. A unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri, USA, named after early settler Stephen Coale.
11. A unincorporated community and coal town in in Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA.
12. A Four townships in the United States, in Missouri, Ohio (2), and Pennsylvania, listed under Coal Township.
13. (internet slang, 4chan slang) Content of low quality.
14. (internet slang, 4chan slang) Failing to be humorous or of extremely poor quality.
15. (internet slang, 4chan slang) To post low-quality content online.

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Examples of Using COAL in a Sentence

• Formerly a major coal mining centre the Abertillery area was transformed in the 1990s using EU and other funding to return to a greener environment.
• The country's natural resources include coal, iron ore, bauxite, manganese, nickel, clay, gypsum, salt, sand, timber and hydropower.
• The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome process.
• A small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a port for coal when mining began in the region helped its expansion.
• Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.
• Coal tar is a thick dark liquid which is a by-product of the production of coke and coal gas from coal.
• The first significant evolutionary radiation of life on land occurred during the Devonian, as free-sporing land plants (pteridophytes) began to spread across dry land, forming extensive coal forests which covered the continents.
• It was created for use in coal mines, to reduce the danger of explosions due to the presence of methane and other flammable gases, called firedamp or minedamp.
• The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was a European organization created after World War II to integrate Europe's coal and steel industries into a single common market based on the principle of supranationalism which would be governed by the creation of a High Authority which would be made up of appointed representatives from the member states who would not represent their national interest, but would take and make decisions in the general interests of the Community as a whole.
• However, the European People's Party Group in the European Parliament has existed in one form or another since June 1953, from the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community, making it one of the oldest European-level political groups.
• Mongolia also has extensive mineral deposits: copper, coal, molybdenum, tin, tungsten, and gold account for a large part of industrial production.
• Like coal and oil, bitumen occurs naturally and is obtained from the world's largest deposit in the Orinoco Belt in Venezuela.
• Paraffin wax (or petroleum wax) is a soft colorless solid derived from petroleum, coal, or oil shale that consists of a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules containing between 20 and 40 carbon atoms.
• Phenol was first extracted from coal tar, but today is produced on a large scale (about 7 million tonnes a year) from petroleum-derived feedstocks.
• Having long been a relatively small part of the long-contested territories along the Franco-German linguistic border, Saarland first gained specific economic and strategic importance in the nineteenth century due to the wealth of its coal deposits and the heavy industrialization that grew as a result.
• Eswatini's natural resources are asbestos, coal, clay, cassiterite, hydropower, forests, small gold and diamond deposits, quarry stone and talc.
• Other commercial mineral deposits include coal, asbestos, copper, nickel, gold, platinum and iron ore.
• February 11 – Major streets are lit by coal gas for the first time by the San Francisco Gas Company; 86 such lamps are turned on this evening in San Francisco, California.
• This principle was at the heart of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) (1951), the Treaty of Paris (1951), and later the Treaty of Rome (1958) which established the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC).
• Lignite (derived from Latin lignum meaning 'wood'), often referred to as brown coal, and is considered the lowest rank of coal due to its relatively low heat content.

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