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. |
Drainage
(n.) A draining |
Drainage
(n.) The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers. |
Drainage
(n.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works. |
Drainage
(n.) Area or district drained |
Drainage
(n.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc. |
Emission
(n.) The act of sending or throwing out |
Emission
(n.) That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time |
Escape
(v.) To flee from and avoid |
Escape
(v.) To avoid the notice of |
Escape
(v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger |
Escape
(v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form |
Escape
(v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds |
Escape
(n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice |
Escape
(n.) That which escapes attention or restraint |
Escape
(n.) A sally. |
Escape
(n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody. |
Escape
(n.) An apophyge. |
Escape
(n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid. |
Escape
(n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation. |
Extraction
(n.) The act of extracting, or drawing out |
Extraction
(n.) Derivation from a stock or family |
Extraction
(n.) That which is extracted |
Forming
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Form |
Forming
(n.) The act or process of giving form or shape to anything |
Kennel coal
() See Cannel coal. |
Methane
(n.) A light, colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4 |
Process
(n.) The act of proceeding |
Process
(n.) A series of actions, motions, or occurrences |
Process
(n.) A statement of events |
Process
(n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone |
Process
(n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit |
Re-forming
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Re-form |
Sea coal
() Coal brought by sea |
process
physical process | a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states, events now in process, the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls |
escape
flight | the act of escaping physically, he made his escape from the mental hospital, the canary escaped from its cage, his flight was an indication of his guilt |
close call
close shave
squeak
squeaker
narrow escape | something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin |
| escape | a means or way of escaping, hard work was his escape from worry, they installed a second hatch as an escape, their escape route |
| escape | an avoidance of danger or difficulty, that was a narrow escape |
service serving
service of process | the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone, he accepted service of the subpoena |
| extraction | the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force), the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction |
drain
drainage | emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it |
| escape escapism | an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy, romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life, his alcohol problem was a form of escapism |
operation
surgery surgical operation
surgical procedure
surgical process | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments, performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body, they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available, he died while undergoing surgery |
| evasion escape dodging | nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do, his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible, that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive |
| escape mechanism | a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities |
mathematical process
mathematical operation
operation | (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods, the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation, they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic |
positron emission tomography
PET | using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain) |
procedure
process | a particular course of action intended to achieve a result, the procedure of obtaining a driver's license, it was a process of trial and error |
due process
due process of law | (law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles, based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards |
emission
emanation | the act of emitting, causing to flow forth |
| endospore-forming bacteria | a group of true bacteria |
| pus-forming bacteria | bacteria that produce pus |
| 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 |
| drainage ditch | a ditch for carrying off excess water or sewage |
| drainage system | a system of watercourses or drains for carrying off excess water |
| escape hatch | hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency |
| escape wheel | gear that engages a rocking lever |
| field-emission microscope | electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid |
fire escape
emergency exit | a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency |
fire tongs
coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
positron emission tomography scanner
PET scanner | a tomograph that produces cross-sectional Xays of metabolic processes in the body |
safety valve
relief valve
escape valve
escape cock
escape | a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler), it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level |
scuttle
coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
origin
descent
extraction | properties attributable to your ancestry, he comes from good origins |
coal black
ebony
jet black
pitch black
sable
soot black | a very dark black |
| compulsory process | the right of a defendant to have a court use its subpoena power to compel the appearance of material witnesses before the court |
| right to due process | a right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, reaffirmed by the Fourteenth Amendment |
acromion
acromial process | the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade |
| xiphoid process | smallest of the three parts of the breastbone, articulates with the corpus sternum and the seventh rib |
alveolar ridge
gum ridge
alveolar process | a ridge that forms the borders of the upper and lower jaws and contains the sockets of the teeth |
osteoblast
bone-forming cell | a cell from which bone develops |
process
outgrowth
appendage | a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant, a bony process |
condylar process
condyloid process
mandibular condyle | the condyle of the ramus of the mandible that articulates with the skull |
coronoid process
processus coronoideus | a sharp triangular process projecting from a bone |
| coronoid process of the mandible | the coronoid process that provides an attachment for the temporal muscle |
appendix
vermiform appendix
vermiform process
cecal appendage | a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch |
mastoid
mastoid process
mastoid bone
mastoidal | process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull |
| styloid process | extends from the base of the temporal bone |
| pterygoid process | two bony processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone |