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How to pronounce coal in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms char
Type of combust, burn
Type Words
Synonyms ember
Type of fragment
Type Words
Type of vegetable matter, fossil fuel
Has types lignite, soft coal, steam coal, anthracite, anthracite coal, bituminous coal, brown coal, hard coal, wood coal
Type Words
Type of render, furnish, supply, provide
Type Words
Type of gather in, take in


The big ship coaled.

Examples of coal

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The company put the coal on trains to Seward, then the coal was loaded on ships.
From the thenewstribune.com
Already 70 percent of its emissions from large industrial sources are from coal.
From the thenewstribune.com
At the moment over 90 percent of Polish electricity production is based on coal.
From the bloomberg.com
The company is considering buying coal mines and power plants overseas, he said.
From the bloomberg.com
Wygen is more efficient than earlier plants, burning about 20 percent less coal.
From the washingtontimes.com
Chevron intends to sell off three coal mines in Wyoming, New Mexico and Alabama.
From the chron.com
The amount of coal burned at the business park has fallen 41 percent since 2005.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Vecor is taking refuse from coal-fired power plants and turning it into masonry.
From the online.wsj.com
Kentucky generates more waste from coal-fired power plants than any other state.
From the kentucky.com
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  • Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
  • Char: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"
  • Ember: a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
  • Supply with coal
  • Take in coal; "The big ship coaled"
  • Coal is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock normally occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure. ...
  • Thomas and Friends (previously known as Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends) is a children's television series about the engines and other characters working on the railways of the Island of Sodor, and is based on The Railway Series books written by the Rev. W. Awdry.
  • (Coals) Embers are the glowing, hot coals made of greatly heated wood, coal or other carbon-based material that remain after, or sometimes precede a fire. Embers can glow very hot, sometimes as hot as the fire which created them. ...
  • A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel; A piece of coal used for burning. ...