Charcoal
['tʃɑːkəʊl] or ['tʃɑrkol]
Definition
(noun.) a stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
(noun.) a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material.
(noun.) a very dark grey color.
(noun.) a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air.
(verb.) draw, trace, or represent with charcoal.
(adj.) of a very dark grey .
Edited by Janet--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
(v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
Typist: Sharif
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wood-coal.
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Definition
n. charred wood or coal made by charring wood; the carbonaceous residue of vegetable animal or mineral substances when they have undergone smothered combustion.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of charcoal unlighted, denotes miserable situations and bleak unhappiness. If it is burning with glowing coals, there is prospects of great enhancement of fortune, and possession of unalloyed joys.
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Examples
- Seest thou, Isaac, said Front-de-Boeuf, the range of iron bars above the glowing charcoal? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They smelted iron by blowing up a charcoal fire, and wrought it by heating and hammering. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To every gallon of juice to be filtered there is placed in the filter 2 ounces of charcoal, 2 scruples of crushed mustard seed, and 6 drachms of ground sassafras root. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It was found cheaper and superior to either coal or charcoal, and produced a quicker fire and a greater heat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Charcoal in the furnace being well ignited, ore and charcoal resting on the tray are alternately raked into the furnace. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Practically all household filters of drinking water are made of charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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