(n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To burn to charcoal; to char.
(v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
(v. t.) To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
(v. i.) To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
Example Sentences:
(1) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(2) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(3) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
(4) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
(5) According to the International Energy Agency, 147m Indians will remain without electricity into 2030 under a business as usual scenario emphasising coal.
(6) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(7) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(8) Instead the textbook simply reads: "Traditional industries, such as shipbuilding and coal mining, declined ... during her premiership, there were a number of important economic reforms within the UK".
(9) In the US, electricity accounts for 39% of emissions – and 75% of that is contributed by coal.
(10) A survey was conducted in southern Illinois with a population of 46 coal miners and ex-coal miners ranging in age from 42 to 86 years.
(11) Australia’s greatest contribution to global warming is through our coal, exported and burned in foreign power stations.
(12) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
(13) The DECC believes clusters of coal and gas plants with CCS would offer efficiency because they could share the costs of building and operating pipelines to storage facilities, probably in old North Sea oil and gas fields.
(14) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
(15) That stake in eight Indonesian coal mines represents 1GT of future carbon dioxide emissions, more than Germany’s annual output.
(16) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
(17) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(18) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
(19) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
(20) Engie, the owner of Rugeley coal-fired station in Staffordshire, which made the most recent closure announcement earlier this month, blamed low wholesale power prices as much as carbon taxes for its decision .
Collier
Definition:
(n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
(n.) A vessel employed in the coal trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Collier usually attends in his place, but Guardian Australia has been told he was not invited to next month’s meeting, in the hope that omitting him might encourage Barnett to board a plane.
(2) An officer with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police, Sean Collier, 26, was identified as the victim of a shooting at the university amid a manhunt for the Boston bombing suspects.
(3) Mary Collier from Right to Life Australia, the anti-abortion group that organised the public seminars, expressed her disappointment at the high court’s decision.
(4) If we’re going to put the resources into it, then it needs to be something that supports reform, whether that be housing, education, health services.” The proposal is being considered by the Aboriginal affairs cabinet subcommittee, which Redman sits on along with Barnett and Aboriginal affairs minister Peter Collier.
(5) The NADase activity of choleragen was similar to that of diphtheria toxin previously described [J. Kandel, R. J. Collier & D. W. Chung (1974) J. Biol.
(6) Ethanol-induced accumulation of extracellular adenosine is required for the development of heterologous desensitization (Nagy, L. E., Diamond, I., Collier, K., Lopez, L., Ullman, B., and Gordon, A. S., Mol.
(7) Recent cloning of the human MGMT cDNA (Tano, K.; Shiota, S.; Collier, J.; Foote, R.S.
(8) Collier reiterated that royalties would not fill the gap left by federal money, but said Redman’s offer of using the development fund was a “positive commitment” that could be used to support those communities determined to be “sustainable”.
(9) The minister for Aboriginal affairs, Peter Collier, also told the WA parliament she died in hospital.
(10) WA Aboriginal affairs minister Peter Collier told ABC radio in Perth on Wednesday that he had not seen the report until it was shown to him by the ABC.
(11) Meanwhile, another story entitled I’m Crazy, containing material that was later used in The Catcher in the Rye , appeared in Collier’s magazine on 22 December 1945.
(12) In Duval County, overall D. tenuis prevalence was 7%, whereas that of M. llewellyni was 14%; the latter species was not found in Collier County.
(13) Mike Collier Armenia Armenia has traditionally had close ties with Russia and most Armenians continue to support that political and economic alliance.
(14) Scullion travelled to WA last week to meet Collier on another issue .
(15) Paul Collier's work, the Bottom Billion, about broken states backs up the case for using our DfID budget – yes for meeting the Millennium Development Goals, yes for vaccination and malaria reduction and all of those extremely worthwhile things – but we're mad if we don't put money into mending broken states where so many of the problems of poverty come from."
(16) The Aboriginal affairs minister, Peter Collier, has said the plan would be released “very soon”.
(17) They have made it about as clear as mud,” said Dwight Brock, clerk for Collier County.
(18) The dimeric enzyme, alpha-Glycerophosphate dehydrogenase, was purified from eight Drosophila species by the method of Collier et al.
(19) But Judge Collier said in court documents that the government had “not shown by clear and convincing evidence defendant’s release would pose an unreasonable danger to the community or any particular individual”.
(20) Western Australia's minister for education, Peter Collier, said he clicked the "like" button under what he thought was an innocent photo of the then 16-year-old in late 2011.