American English pronunciation

How to pronounce coals

IPA transcription: ['koʊlz]

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Noun

  • fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

  • a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

Verb

  • burn to charcoal

    “Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything”

  • supply with coal

  • take in coal

    “The big ship coaled”

Usage examples

  • It was like heaping coals of fire on my head.
  • With his bear feet, he walked over the hot coals.
  • It was like heaping coals of fire on my head.
  • At the same time hot coals were placed against the outside of the casting.
  • Coals and bitumen shales are examples of sedimentary rocks rich in "sedimentary organic matter".