Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A black, porous, carbonaceous material, 85 to 98 percent carbon, produced by the destructive distillation of wood and used as a fuel, filter, and adsorbent.
- noun A drawing pencil or crayon made from this material.
- noun A drawing executed with such a pencil or crayon.
- noun A dark grayish brown to black or dark purplish gray.
- transitive verb To draw, write, or blacken with a black, carbonaceous material.
- transitive verb To charbroil.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To blacken, write, or draw with charcoal; execute in charcoal: as, to
charcoal one's eyebrows. - To suffocate with the fumes of charcoal.
- noun Coal made by subjecting wood to a process of smothered combustion; more generally, the carbonaceous residue of vegetable, animal, or combustible mineral substances which have been subjected to smothered combustion.
- noun A pencil of charcoal, used by artists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun (Fine Arts) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
- noun a fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; -- used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an absorbent and disinfectant.
- noun the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances.
- noun (Fine Arts) a drawing made with charcoal. See
Charcoal , 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it. - noun a carbon pencil prepared for use in an electric light apparatus.
- noun a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; -- known to miners as
mother of coal .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable
Impure carbon obtained bydestructive distillation ofwood or other organic matter, that is to say,heating it in the absence ofoxygen . - noun countable A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
- noun countable A drawing made with charcoal.
- noun A very dark
gray colour . - adjective Of a dark gray colour.
- adjective Made of charcoal.
- verb To
draw with charcoal. - verb To
cook over charcoal.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a very dark grey
- noun a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material
- noun a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air
- noun a very dark grey color
- noun a stick of black carbon material used for drawing
- verb draw, trace, or represent with charcoal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The oil burns intensely for several minutes before the paper wick burns up, and by that time, your charcoal is ablaze like the Cuyahoga River.
You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » 2006 » April 2006
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The oil burns intensely for several minutes before the paper wick burns up, and by that time, your charcoal is ablaze like the Cuyahoga River.
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A mule-powered railway was built to haul charcoal from the hinterlands to a loading pier on the south shore of the Toms River where coasting vessels took on cargo for Philadelphia and New York.
Building Beachwood, Part One « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2010
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Ortega - who works in charcoal, silkscreen and colored etchings - has drawn a maid tidying a hotel bed, a carpenter hammering a roof.
Mexican-American Artist Brings Immigrant Experience Out of Shadows 2010
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The charcoal is then sprayed with calcium, which creates calcium carbide, then heated further under intense pressure and treated with a phosphate solution.
Wooden bones ewillett 2010
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The charcoal is then sprayed with calcium, which creates calcium carbide, then heated further under intense pressure and treated with a phosphate solution.
Wooden bones ewillett 2010
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Gastric decontamination with activated charcoal is recommended.
poison prevention for Delaware, Lehigh Valley, S.E. Pennsylvania 2010
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Gastric emptying via emesis or lavage should be performed in patients who have ingested greater than 40-60 mg./kg. of elemental iron or an unknown amount. 1 Activated charcoal is not useful, unless there are co-ingestants, since it does not bind metals such as iron. 1 Iron tablets are radiopaque, therefore, an abdominal radiograph should be performed to determine if there is evidence of iron tablets in the stomach or small bowel.
Iron Poisoning 2010
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The foliage is exceptional as well, a very dark shade of green that looks almost charcoal from a distance.
The New White Knock Out Rose is here!!!! « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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A mule-powered railway was built to haul charcoal from the hinterlands to a loading pier on the south shore of the Toms River where coasting vessels took on cargo for Philadelphia and New York.
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