(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 .
Keeler
Definition:
(n.) One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman.
(n.) A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
(2) Keeler was to constantly relive her ever-changing four months in 1962 with Profumo.
(3) The Sunday Mirror reprinted Profumo's 'Darling' letter, while the News of the World famously photographed Keeler sitting naked astride a fashionably modern chair, an image that would come to epitomise the Swinging Sixties.
(4) The chances of Keeler being installed in Downing Street were infinitesimal.
(5) The Keeler NCT nearly fulfills the needed criteria for the first group with pressure under 23 mm Hg except for a high standard deviation.
(6) Using the Konan-Keeler specular microscope, panoramic specular microscopy covering almost one quadrant of the anterior capsule was performed.
(7) We conducted comparative measurements with 100 healthy probands and patients suffering of glaucoma with both a Goldmann Applanation Tonometer (GAT) and the new Keeler Non Contact Tonometer (NCT).
(8) The Keeler Pulsair is a noncontact tonometer which can be used by those without specialist ophthalmic training.
(9) Intraocular pressure was evaluated in 414 eyes using Keeler Pulsair tonometry in comparison with values obtained by Goldmann tonometry.
(10) Increases in lens opacity measured by the Lens Opacity Meter 701, the Keeler Projectoscopy and clinical grading.
(11) Although MI5 had known about Profumo's dalliance with Keeler for many months, the first politician to learn about it was John Lewis, the former Labour MP for Bolton, who mistakenly thought Stephen Ward had seduced his wife.
(12) The Pulsair non-contact tonometer (Keeler Pulsair: Keeler UK) has been shown to be a versatile instrument particularly suitable for screening for raised intraocular pressure.
(13) The results shows that self-tonometry with the Pulsair-Keeler tonometer can be used in monitoring glaucomatous patients at home.
(14) The recently-introduced Pulsair non-contact tonometer (Keeler Instruments, Inc, Broomall, PA) was evaluated against the Goldmann applanation tonometer in cannulated post mortem human eyes, and in living subjects at three clinical centers.
(15) One of these is the Keeler Pulsair non-contact tonometer which uses pressurized air in measurement.
(16) And Keeler, a doe-eyed beauty just 21 when the scandal broke, was the perfect representative of a generation already associated with greater frankness, self-indulgence and sexual curiosity.
(17) "If Richard had appointed Christine Keeler, I might have intervened," Cook said later, "but Ian was the ideal choice."
(18) We used a camera and flash electrically coupled to an American Optical Non-Contact II tonometer (Cambridge Instruments Inc, Cambridge, Mass) or a Keeler Pulsair tonometer (Keeler Instruments Inc, Broomall, Pa) to photograph the corneal profile during tonometry.
(19) Andy had been passed a copy of a compromising letter from Profumo to Keeler by the Tory MP Henry Kirby.
(20) Using a contactless tonometer of Keeler Co. the authors assessed the intraocular pressure in enucleated eyeballs and compared the values with the intraocular pressure assessed in the eyeballs by means of a water manometer.