coal

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

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.

Phát âm là (IPA)

/kəʊl/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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.