Charcoal

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  • noun. A black, porous, carbonaceous material, 85 to 98 percent carbon, produced by the destructive distillation of wood and used as a fuel, filter, and adsorbent.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A drawing pencil or crayon made from this material.
  • noun. A drawing executed with such a pencil or crayon.
  • noun. A dark grayish brown to black or dark purplish gray.
  • transitive verb. To draw, write, or blacken with a black, carbonaceous material.
  • transitive verb. To charbroil.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Coal made by subjecting wood to a process of smothered combustion; more generally, the carbonaceous residue of vegetable, animal, or combustible mineral substances which have been subjected to smothered combustion.
  • noun. A pencil of charcoal, used by artists.
  • To blacken, write, or draw with charcoal; execute in charcoal: as, to charcoal one's eyebrows.
  • To suffocate with the fumes of charcoal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
  • noun. Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
  • noun. a fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; -- used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an absorbent and disinfectant.
  • noun. the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances.
  • noun. a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it.
  • noun. a carbon pencil prepared for use in an electric light apparatus.
  • noun. a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; -- known to miners as mother of coal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
  • noun. A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
  • noun. A drawing made with charcoal.
  • noun. A very dark gray colour.
  • adjective. Of a dark gray colour.
  • adjective. Made of charcoal.
  • verb. To draw with charcoal.
  • verb. To cook over charcoal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of a very dark grey
  • noun. a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material
  • noun. a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air
  • noun. a very dark grey color
  • noun. a stick of black carbon material used for drawing
  • verb. draw, trace, or represent with charcoal
  • Word Usage
    "The oil burns intensely for several minutes before the paper wick burns up, and by that time, your charcoal is ablaze like the Cuyahoga River."
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    atomic number 6  c  carbon  draw  drawing  
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    ash  carbon  chalk  clay  coal  
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