(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 .
Dresser
Definition:
(n.) One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
(n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
(n.) An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
(v. t.) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
(v. t.) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.
Example Sentences:
(1) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
(2) No butlers, dressers and footmen (if the Queen wants them she can pay for them herself).
(3) I then worked for a brief while as a shop assistant, a dresser at the BBC and the Royal Opera House, and a receptionist at a family planning clinic.
(4) A retrospective cohort mortality study was conducted on 807 fur dyers, fur dressers (tanners), and fur service workers who were pensioned between 1952 and 1977 by the Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union of New York City.
(5) And when you see Portman naked and leaning in profile on a dresser, she's posed deliberately, artfully, bony elbows protecting her modesty.
(6) SMRs for the dressers and dyers were also low, but not as low as for the manufacturers.
(7) In 1996, a young Samantha Sheffield started working at Smythson as a window dresser.
(8) And back to work.” The BBC also confirmed The Dresser, a one-off drama directed by Sir Richard Eyre for BBC2 starring Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen, and the return of Top of the Lake for a second series; casting details were not announced but the BBC said the story will be set in Sydney, Australia.
(9) In fact, Hall was a very eccentric dresser, who would go nowhere without a wide-brimmed fedora (who knew?
(10) However, because of the relatively small number of expected and observed deaths in the cohort and especially among the heavily exposed dressers and dyers, the confidence intervals around SMR estimates were wide and excess risks cannot be ruled out.
(11) It feels amazing that I'm actually going to show my work this time and not just be the dresser.
(12) When my boyfriend and I Chuckle-Brothered a heavy dresser over the threshold just under a year ago, I was filled with a sense of hope.
(13) When attention was restricted to the French Canadians in the cohort, the observed deaths were close to the expected; there was a noteworthy excess of colorectal cancer (four observed, 0.8 expected) for dressers and dyers.
(14) A delegate would have to possess the courage of a cross-dresser in Texas to oppose anything in this atmosphere.
(15) He was a genuine cross-dresser, an 18th-century transvestite.
(16) Denise Dresser (@DeniseDresserG) Peña Nieto invita.a Trump para: August 31, 2016 Translation: Peña Nieto invited Trump because: For Higa [a Mexican construction company] to build the wall To speak about hairstyles To tell him the good things To present his thesis At press time, getting Higa to build the wall had 49% of the more than 8,000 Twitter votes.
(17) Callahan's paper on paternalism and involuntary psychiatric commitment of adults, with comments by Rebecca Dresser, appeared in the August 1984 issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Vol.
(18) Fortunately, at least for the Downton set-dresser, there is of course an app for that.
(19) Support was not found for the prediction that the sex change group would have the worst present and past adjustment followed by the homosexual cross-dressers with the poorest past adjustment.
(20) There was a big difference between those classes which we didn’t know before.” 2014 : Flamboyant dressers in modern-day Kinshasa.