Coal
A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
To burn to charcoal; to char.
To mark or delineate with charcoal.
To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
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Coal Quotations
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
Roald Dahl
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcolm Forbes
Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.
Martin C. Smith
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
Martin C. Smith
And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.
John W. Snow
The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.
LL Cool J
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
Harrison Ford
One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
James Lovelock
Coal Translations
coal in Afrikaans is steenkool
coal in Danish is kul
coal in Dutch is kool, steenkool
coal in Finnish is hiili
coal in French is charbon
coal in German is Steinkohle, Kohle, Kohle
coal in Italian is carbone
coal in Latin is carbo
coal in Norwegian is kull
coal in Swedish is stenkol, kol (sten-)
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