(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 .
Hutch
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
(n.) A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
(n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels.
(n.) The case of a flour bolt.
(n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
(n.) A jig for washing ore.
(v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
(v. t.) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
Example Sentences:
(1) It had only been told on Wednesday that Hutchings could not be there.
(2) Passersby were encouraged to sign a letter to Hutchings that stated: "You seem to be saying that our state schools are good enough for our kids but not for yours."
(3) Asked after the factory visit why Hutchings had not been at the hustings, David Cameron said: "She was with me at a very important meeting at a business that's the sort of beating heart of Eastleigh.
(4) The communities and local government secretary, Eric Pickles, met voters in the village of Hamble with the Tory candidate Maria Hutchings, who was forced to deny making potentially damaging remarks about immigration and gay people after launching her campaign on Friday.
(5) According to the Daily Mirror, Hutchings said on Friday: "William [her son] is very gifted which gives us another interesting challenge in finding the right sort of education for him – impossible in the state system.
(6) But while out campaigning with the home secretary, Theresa May, on Monday, Hutchings insisted her comments had been misinterpreted.
(7) The basic shortcomings of the method Belding-Hutch are mentioned: inaccuracies in the equation of the heat balance, incongruity of the accepted criteria with the up-to-date physiological data.
(8) "It's such a shame that Conservatives like Maria Hutchings want to do our education system down instead of sending the message that whatever your background, you can achieve what you set out to do in life."
(9) Smoke weed every day!” And in movies, Snoop’s been happy to play to his stoner persona, both in the pro-weed documentary The Culture High and as Huggy Bear in 2004’s Starsky and Hutch , where he displays an encyclopedic knowledge of actual grass varieties on a golf course.
(10) Outside, the wind and rain sends the school's pet rabbits into a retreat deep inside their hutches.
(11) Individual calf hutches or pens provide adequate isolation if sufficient spacing and good sanitation are maintained.
(12) A letter from cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, another surgeon and six named GPs states: "As GPs and surgeons who all started their education at state-funded schools, we are proof that Maria Hutchings' assertions are not true.
(13) A modification of the method Belding-Hutch is proposed.
(14) On the first day of her campaign , Maria Hutchings was asked about one interview in which she was quoted as saying she did not care about refugees and another in which she allegedly claimed that Labour had done more for "the immigrants, the gays, the bloody foxes" than for children with special needs.
(15) Hutchings, a local woman who makes much of her down-to-earth attitude in campaign literature, could be spotted at various points during the day being ushered around by a coterie of smart-suited, well-spoken young men brandishing shiny blue balloons like defensive weaponry.
(16) The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said Hutchings had insulted "every pupil and teacher at our state schools", while a group of surgeons and GPs who had been state-educated wrote an open letter claiming they were living proof she was wrong .
(17) The Lib Dems, who are defending the seat in next Thursday's vote following Chris Huhne's resignation, seized on the Tory problems, presenting 10 questions that they said had to be answered about Hutchings, who has attracted headlines for forthright – and often off-message – views about subjects ranging from state education to the EU and gay marriage.
(18) While canvassing with Hutchings on a housing estate in the Hampshire constituency, Duncan Smith said he was glad she did not always toe the party line.
(19) Boyd was informed of Drake’s talents by Hutchings, went down to see for himself and at once became the third figure of the Drake-Kirby-Joe Boyd triumvirate which created … well first, of course, there was Five Leaves Left.
(20) It is not the first time during the campaign that Hutchings has claimed she has been misquoted or misinterpreted.