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Coal vs Xylanthrax - What's the difference?

coal | xylanthrax |

As nouns the difference between coal and xylanthrax

is that coal is (uncountable) a black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel while xylanthrax is (archaic) wood coal or charcoal, distinguished from mineral coal; lignite.

As a verb coal

is to take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).

coal

English

(wikipedia coal)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (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.
    • Put some coals on the fire.
    Put some coal on the fire.
  • (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.
    • 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.
  • Charcoal

    • Hyponyms

    * anthracite, bitumin

    Derived 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 coal

    Related terms

    () * charcoal * colliery

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
  • * 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XVI:
    • The light shook and splintered in the puddles. A red glare came from an outward-bound steamer that was coaling .
  • To be converted to charcoal.
  • * 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 18:
    • As a result, particles of wood and twigs insufficiently coaled are frequently found at the bottom of such pits.
  • To burn to charcoal; to char.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces.
  • To mark or delineate with charcoal.
    • (Camden)
  • To supply with coal.
    • to coal a steamer

    Anagrams

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    xylanthrax

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Wood coal or charcoal, distinguished from mineral coal; lignite.
  • * 1821 , Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Volume 2 (page 24)
    • This clay formation, entirely unconnected with that of the Mississippi, and the lower part of the Arkansa, is of a blueish-grey, abounding in pyrites and xylanthrax , and is the active seat of those pseudo-volcanoes and their remains existing in the upper part of the Missouri territory.
  • * 1863 , The journal of the British Archaeological Association: Volume 19 (page 321)
    • There are two beads of much interest: a small cylindrical one of chrysoprase, and a large one turned out of a piece of xylanthrax , similar to that met with at Bovy, Devonshire.