Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun coal

2 senses of coal

Sense 1
coal -- (fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period)
       => fossil fuel -- (fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content)
       => vegetable matter -- (matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant)

Sense 2
ember, coal -- (a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering)
       => fragment -- (a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb coal

3 senses of coal

Sense 1
char, coal -- (burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything")
       => burn, combust -- (cause to burn or combust; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels")

Sense 2
coal -- (supply with coal)
       => supply, provide, render, furnish -- (give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater")

Sense 3
coal -- (take in coal; "The big ship coaled")
       => take in, gather in -- (fold up; "take in the sails")