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Ember vs Coals - What's the difference?

ember | coals |

As nouns the difference between ember and coals

is that ember is a glowing piece of coal or wood while coals is the glowing embers that result when wood is burned, and that can continue to release intense heat.Wp

As an adjective ember

is making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer.

As a proper noun Ember

is {{given name|female|from=English}}.

As a verb coals is

third-person singular of coal.

ember

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A glowing piece of coal or wood.
  • Smoldering ash.
  • See also

    * embers

    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer.
  • ember fasts
    ember days
    ember weeks
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    coals

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • The glowing embers that result when wood is burned, and that can continue to release intense heat.(w)
  • *
  • *:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals , and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
  • English plurals Multiple pieces of coal.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (coal)
  • Anagrams

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