coal
US: /ˈkoʊɫ/
UK: /kˈəʊl/
UK: /kˈəʊl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
coal /koul/
- danh từ
- than đá
- (số nhiều) viên than đá
- to blow the coals
- đổ thêm dầu vào lửa
- to cary coals to Newcastle
- (xem) carry
- to hand (call, rake, drag) somebody over the coals
- xỉ vả ai, mắng nhiếc ai
- to heap coals of fire on someone's head
- lấy ơn trả oán, lấy thiện trả ác
- ngoại động từ
- cho (tàu) ăn than; tiếp tế than cho
- to coal a ship: cho tàu ăn than
- cho (tàu) ăn than; tiếp tế than cho
- nội động từ
- ăn than, lấy than
- ships coal at a port: tàu ăn than ở cảng
- ăn than, lấy than
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [U] a hard black mineral that is found below the ground and burnt to produce heat: I put more coal on the fire. + a lump of coal + a coal fire + a coal mine + the coal industry
2 [C] a piece of coal, especially one that is burning: A hot coal fell out of the fire and burnt the carpet.
Idioms: carry, take, etc. coals to Newcastle (BrE) to take goods to a place where there are already plenty of them; to supply sth where it is not needed
more at HAUL v., RAKE v.
Collocation dictionary
1 black mineral
ADJ.
hard | soft | brown | bituminous, coking | opencast
opencast coal mining
QUANT.
lump, piece
VERB + COAL
mine, produce | burn, use | shovel
COAL + VERB
burn
COAL + NOUN
fire | mine, pit | mining, production | merchant, miner | company | industry | field, seam | bucket, bunker, cellar, scuttle | dust, gas
2 (usually coals) burning pieces of coal
ADJ.
burning, glowing, hot, live, red-hot
VERB + COAL
glow
Red-hot coals glowed in the fireplace.
Concise English dictionary
coals|coaled|coalingkəʊl
noun
+fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
+a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
verb
+burn to charcoal
+supply with coal
+take in coal
