coal

Meaning

Noun

1. A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
2. A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
3. A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
4. A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
5. Charcoal.
6. Content of low quality.
7. (slang) Bombs emitting black smoke on impact.

Verb

1. To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships or locomotives).
2. To supply with coal.
3. To be converted to charcoal.
4. To burn to charcoal; to char.
5. To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Adj

1. Failing to be humorous or of extremely poor quality.
2. Black like coal; coal-black.

Verb

To post low-quality content online.

Concepts

coal

charcoal

carbon

ember

char

coke

become charred

black diamond

embers

burn

clinker

fuel

gas

oil

wood charcoal

be charred

pitcoal

blaze

burning coal

glow

reflection

anthrax

carbuncle

heat

seed

coals

anthracite

pit coal

smolder

smoulder

carbonize

carburise

Chinese ink

mine

chemical element

black coal

naturally occurring

izle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəʊl/

Etymology

From Middle English cole, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (compare West Frisian koal, Dutch kool, German Kohle, Danish kul), from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”). Compare Old Irish gúal (“coal”), Lithuanian žvìlti (“to twinkle, glow”), Persian زغال (zoğâl, “live coal”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), all from the same root.