What is the difference between collier and charcoal?
collier | charcoal |
A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining coal or making charcoal) or in its transporting or commerce.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 224.
(nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal
A nickname used by the traveller community, referring to a non-traveller
(uncountable) Impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
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, chapter=2 (countable) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
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(countable) A drawing made with charcoal.
A very dark gray colour.
Of a dark gray colour.
Made of charcoal.
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As nouns the difference between collier and charcoal
is that collier is a person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining coal or making charcoal) or in its transporting or commerce while charcoal is impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen.As a proper noun Collier
is {{surname|from=occupations}.As an adjective charcoal is
of a dark gray colour.As a verb charcoal is
to draw with charcoal.collier
English
Noun
(en noun)- For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.
References
* ----charcoal
English
(wikipedia charcoal)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal .}}
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
