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| to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly. |
| to flee; abscond: |
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- It is a renewable energy source, unlike petroleum and coal.
- The markets for medium-term bets on coal prices and weather conditions suffered.
- We are still belching smoke and smog and dependent on both oil and coal.
| coal (kəʊl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. anthracite bituminous coal lignite See also peat a combustible compact black or dark-brown carbonaceous rock formed from compaction of layers of partially decomposed vegetation: a fuel and a source of coke, coal gas, and coal tar |
| b. (as modifier): coal cellar; coal merchant; coal mine; coal dust | |
| 2. | one or more lumps of coal |
| 3. | short for charcoal |
| 4. | coals to Newcastle something supplied where it is already plentiful |
| 5. | haul someone over the coals to reprimand someone |
| —vb | |
| 6. | to take in, provide with, or turn into coal |
| [Old English col; related to Old Norse kol, Old High German kolo, Old Irish gūal] | |
| 'coaly | |
| —adj | |
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coal  (kōl) Pronunciation Key
A dark-brown to black solid substance formed from the compaction and hardening of fossilized plant parts in the presence of water and in the absence of air. Carbonaceous material accounts for more than 50 percent of coal's weight and more than 70 percent of its volume. Coal is widely used as a fuel, and its combustion products are used as raw material for a variety of products including cement, asphalt, wallboard and plastics. See more at anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite. |
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Coal definition
It is by no means certain that the Hebrews were acquainted with mineral coal, although it is found in Syria. Their common fuel was dried dung of animals and wood charcoal. Two different words are found in Hebrew to denote coal, both occurring in Prov. 26:21, "As coal [Heb. peham; i.e., "black coal"] is to burning coal [Heb. gehalim]." The latter of these words is used in Job 41:21; Prov. 6:28; Isa. 44:19. The words "live coal" in Isa. 6:6 are more correctly "glowing stone." In Lam. 4:8 the expression "blacker than a coal" is literally rendered in the margin of the Revised Version "darker than blackness." "Coals of fire" (2 Sam. 22:9, 13; Ps. 18:8, 12, 13, etc.) is an expression used metaphorically for lightnings proceeding from God. A false tongue is compared to "coals of juniper" (Ps. 120:4; James 3:6). "Heaping coals of fire on the head" symbolizes overcoming evil with good. The words of Paul (Rom. 12:20) are equivalent to saying, "By charity and kindness thou shalt soften down his enmity as surely as heaping coals on the fire fuses the metal in the crucible."
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