Coal vs Ore - What's the difference?
coal | ore |
(uncountable) A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
(countable) A piece of coal used for burning. Note that in British English either of the following examples could be used, whereas the latter would be more common in American English.
(countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.
(countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
Charcoal
To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XVI:
To be converted to charcoal.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 18:
To burn to charcoal; to char.
* Francis Bacon
To mark or delineate with charcoal.
To supply with coal.
Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which—at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction—are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.
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As verbs the difference between coal and ore
is that coal is to take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships) while ore is to hear.As a noun coal
is (uncountable) a black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.coal
English
(wikipedia coal)Noun
(en-noun)- Put some coals on the fire.
- Put some coal on the fire.
- Just as the camp-fire died down to just coals , with no flames to burn the marshmallows, someone dumped a whole load of wood on, so I gave up and went to bed.
Hyponyms
* anthracite, bituminDerived terms
* bituminous coal, soft coal * brown coal * channel coal * coal ball * coal bed * coal black * coalboy * coal gas * coal hole * coal oil * coal tar * coal tit * coalmine, coal mine * coals to Newcastle * hard coal (see: anthracite) * white coalVerb
(en verb)- The light shook and splintered in the puddles. A red glare came from an outward-bound steamer that was coaling .
- As a result, particles of wood and twigs insufficiently coaled are frequently found at the bottom of such pits.
- Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces.
- (Camden)
- to coal a steamer
Anagrams
*ore
English
(wikipedia ore)Noun
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