Iron vs Coal - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.
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(uncountable, countable, metallurgy) Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
(countable) A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.
Shackles.
(slang) A handgun.
(uncountable) A dark shade of the colour/color silver.
A male homosexual.
(golf) A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
(uncountable) Great strength or power.
(not comparable) Made of the metal iron.
(figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.
To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
(archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
* Sir Walter Scott
To furnish or arm with iron.
(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.
As nouns the difference between iron and coal
is that iron is pencil while coal is (uncountable) a black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.As a verb coal is
to take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).iron
English
(wikipedia iron)Noun
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Quotations
* (English Citations of "iron")Synonyms
* (metallic chemical element) ferrum * (tool for pressing clothing) flatiron (old-fashioned), smoothing iron (old-fashioned) * (shackles) shackles * (homosexual) poof, queer * (strength or power) energy, forceHypernyms
* (metallic chemical element) chemical element, metal; atom * (tool for pressing clothing) tool, mechanical device * (shackles) restraint * (handgun) weapon * (dark shade of silver) colour, color; shade; silver * (strength or power) force, might, energyHyponyms
* (shackles) leg irons * (golf club) driving iron, long iron, short iron, , * (strength or power) ironmanMeronyms
* (parts or members of metallic chemical element) electron, neutron, protonHolonyms
* (metallic chemical element) molecule (sometimes)Coordinate terms
* (tool for pressing clothing) mangleDerived terms
* angle iron * arsenical iron * bar iron * barking iron * beak-iron * beck-iron * bick-iron * big iron * Bessemer iron * bog iron * bog iron ore * boom-iron * box iron * branding iron * cast iron * cast-iron * chromate of iron * chrome iron * chrome iron ore * chromic iron * climbing iron * copper-iron * corrugated iron * cramp-iron * crimping iron * crisping iron * curling iron * ductile iron * electric iron * fire-irons * flatiron * fresh off the irons * galvanised iron * galvanized iron * gamma-iron * grappling iron * gray iron * have too many irons in the fire * in iron * in irons * Iron Age * iron alum * ironbark * iron-bind * iron-binding * iron-blue * iron-blue fly * iron-bound * iron buff * iron carbide * iron-cased * iron cement * ironclad * iron-clad * iron chloride * iron clay * iron cloth * Iron Curtain * iron curtain * iron deficiency * iron-deficient * ironed * iron fall * iron flint * iron-founder * iron-founding * iron-foundry * iron-free * iron gang * iron glance * iron grass * iron-gray * iron-grey * iron-handed * iron-hard * iron hat * iron-headed * ironheads * ironheart * iron-hearted * iron hoof * iron horse * iron hydroxide * iron iodide * ironish * ironless * iron liquor * iron loss * iron maid * iron maiden * iron-maker * iron-making * ironman * iron-manganese tungstate * iron mask * ironmaster * iron meteorite * iron mine * iron-miner * iron-mining * iron mold * iron mould * ironmonger * iron monticellite * iron mountain * ironness * iron ore * iron oxide * iron pan * iron period * iron phosphate * iron-plated * iron play * iron player * iron protoxide * iron pyrites * iron ration * iron salt * iron sand * iron saw * iron scale * iron-shod * ironshot, iron-shot * iron-sick * Ironside * Ironsides * iron-sided * iron shrub * iron smelting * ironsmith * iron sponge * iron stain * iron stand * ironstone * iron strap * iron sulfate * iron sulphate * iron sulfide * iron sulphide * iron-sulfur cluster * iron-sulphur cluster * iron-tree * iron tribromide * iron trichloride * iron tungstate * iron virgin * ironware * ironweed * ironwood * ironwork * ironwort * irony * iron yellow * * * * * Italian iron * jagging iron * leg-iron * midiron * nickel-iron * pig iron * pinking iron * pump iron * put every iron in the fire * red iron oxide * sad-iron * scrap iron * searing-iron * sheet iron * shooting-iron * silicon iron * smoothing iron * snarling-iron * soldering iron * sponge iron * steam iron * stirrup-iron * strike while the iron is hot * sulfate of iron * sulphate of iron * tire iron * tyre iron * toasting-iron * toggle-iron * to have * too many irons in the fire * tow-iron * waffle iron * wear iron * white iron * wrought iron * zinc ironSee also
* cementite * colcothar * ferrate * ferratin * ferredoxin * ferretto * ferrimagnetism * ferrite * ferritin * ferronerie * ferronnerie * * * Flores martis * haem * heme * haematite * hematite * haemochromatosis * hemochromatosis * magnetite * molysite * nife * Prussian blue * rust * steel * synthetic maghemite * wustite *References
Adjective
(en adjective)- She had an iron will.
- He held on with an iron grip.
- an iron constitution
Synonyms
* adamant, adamantine, brassboundHypernyms
* (made of the metal iron) metal, metallicHyponyms
* (made of the metal iron) wrought-ironSee also
* ferrous, ferricDerived terms
* iron cap * iron chink * Iron Cross * Iron Duke * iron-faced * iron-fisted * Iron Guard * iron gum * iron gum tree * iron hand * iron horse * iron jubilee * iron law * ironly * iron lung * iron mike * iron oak * iron paper * iron sleep * iron slumber * iron walls * iron wedding * iron-willed * iron-witted * iron-wordedVerb
(en verb)- Ironed like a malefactor.
- to iron a wagon
Synonyms
* (to pass an iron over) pressCoordinate terms
* (to pass an iron over) mangleDescendants
* Japanese:Derived terms
* ironer * ironing * iron-on * iron out * non-iron * unironedcoal
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