Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor |
Caking coal () See Coal. |
Canal coal () See Cannel coal. |
Candle coal () See Cannel coal. |
Cannel coal () A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles. |
Coal (n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance |
Coal (n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter. |
Coal (v. t.) To burn to charcoal |
Coal (v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal. |
Coal (v. t.) To supply with coal |
Coal (v. i.) To take in coal |
Coal-black (a.) As black as coal |
Coal-meter (n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. |
Coal tar () A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas |
Coal-whipper (n.) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. |
Coal works () A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. |
Day-coal (n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface. |
Hal'yard (v. t.) A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc. |
Kennel coal () See Cannel coal. |
Main yard () The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast. |
Sea coal () Coal brought by sea |
Storage (n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping |
Storage (n.) Space for the safe keeping of goods. |
Storage (n.) The price changed for keeping goods in a store. |
Tilt-yard (n.) A yard or place for tilting. |
Yard (v. i.) A rod |
Yard (v. i.) A branch |
Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc. |
Yard (v. i.) A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure. |
Yard (v. i.) The penis. |
Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship. |
Yard (n.) An inclosure |
Yard (n.) An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on |
Yard (v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard |
allocation storage allocation | (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions |
repositing reposition storage warehousing | depositing in a warehouse, they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn, my car is in storage, publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing |
storage | the act of storing something |
storage | the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials |
cold storage | refrigerated storage for preservation |
garage sale yard sale | an outdoor sale of used personal or household items held on the seller's premises |
acoustic storage | a storage device consisting of acoustic delay lines |
auxiliary storage external storage secondary storage | a data storage device that is not the main memory of a computer |
buffer buffer storage buffer store | (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device, used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system |
cabinet locker storage locker | a storage compartment for clothes and valuables, usually it has a lock |
cargo area cargo deck cargo hold hold storage area | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo |
Charlestown Navy Yard | the navy yard in Boston where the frigate `Constitution' is anchored |
chicken yard hen yard chicken run fowl run | an enclosed yard for keeping poultry |
coal car | freight car with fixed sides and no roof, for transporting coal |
coal chute | a chute for coal |
coal house | a shed for storing coal |
coal mine coalpit | a mine where coal is dug from the ground |
coal shovel | a hand shovel for shoveling coal |
fire tongs coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
front yard | the yard in front of a house, between the house and the street |
grid storage-battery grid | a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material |
holding pen holding paddock holding yard | a pen where livestock is temporarily confined |
main yard | yard for a square mainsail |
marshalling yard | a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded |
memory computer memory storage computer storage store memory board | an electronic memory device, a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached |
memory device storage device | a device that preserves information for retrieval |
navy yard naval shipyard | a military shipyard |
non-volatile storage nonvolatile storage | computer storage that is not lost when the power is turned off |
push-down storage push-down store stack | a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) |
read-only memory ROM read-only storage fixed storage | (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed |
real storage | the main memory in a virtual memory system |
ropewalk rope yard | workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made |
scuttle coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
side yard | the grounds at either side of a house |
storage battery accumulator | a voltaic battery that stores electric charge |
storage cell secondary cell | a cell that can be recharged |
storage ring | container consisting of a set of magnets set in a doughnut-shaped ring around which charged particles from an accelerator can be kept circulating until they are used |
storage space | the area in any structure that provides space for storage |
storehouse depot entrepot storage store | a depository for goods, storehouses were built close to the docks |
storeroom storage room stowage | a room in which things are stored |
tank storage tank | a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids |
virtual memory virtual storage | (computer science) memory created by using the hard disk to simulate additional random-access memory, the addressable storage space available to the user of a computer system in which virtual addresses are mapped into real addresses |
volatile storage | computer storage that is erased when the power is turned off |
warehouse storage warehouse | a storehouse for goods and merchandise |
yard | an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) |
yard | a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen |
yard grounds curtilage | the enclosed land around a house or other building, it was a small house with almost no yard |
yard railway yard railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
yarder yard donkey | a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road |
yard goods piece goods | merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard |