metier medium | an occupation for which you are especially well suited, in law he found his true metier |
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 |
non-volatile storage nonvolatile storage | computer storage that is not lost when the power is turned off |
scuttle coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
volatile storage | computer storage that is erased when the power is turned off |
coal black ebony jet black pitch black sable soot black | a very dark black |
medium frequency MF | to kilohertz |
medium | an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication |
medium | a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information |
medium mass medium | (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public |
storage medium data-storage medium | a medium for storing information |
magnetic storage medium magnetic medium magnetic storage | any storage medium in which different patterns of magnetization are used to represent stored bits or bytes of information, the hard disk in you computer is magnetic storage |
broadcast medium broadcasting | a medium that disseminates via telecommunications |
coal industry | the producers of coal considered collectively |
medium | the surrounding environment, fish require an aqueous medium |
coal seam | a seam of coal |
ember coal | a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering |
interplanetary medium | interplanetary space including forms of energy and gas and dust |
interstellar medium | interstellar space including streams of protons moving from the stars |
coal miner collier pitman | someone who works in a coal mine |
medium spiritualist sensitive | someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead, he consulted several mediums |
medium wave | a radio wave with a wavelength between and meters (a frequency between kilohertz and kilohertz) |
Canterbury bell cup and saucer Campanula medium | European biennial widely cultivated for its blue or violet or white flowers |
medium of exchange monetary system | anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region |
medium | a state that is intermediate between extremes, a middle position, a happy medium |
anthracosis black lung black lung disease coal miner's lung | lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust |
dispersing phase dispersion medium dispersing medium | (of colloids) a substance in which another is colloidally dispersed |
charcoal wood coal | a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air |
coal gas | gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting |
kerosene kerosine lamp oil coal oil | a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters |
cannel coal | a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame |
coal | fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period |
anthracite anthracite coal hard coal | a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat |
bituminous coal soft coal | rich in tarry hydrocarbons, burns readily with a smoky yellow flame |
lignite brown coal wood coal | intermediate between peat and bituminous coal |
sea coal | pulverized bituminous coal, used as a foundry facing |
steam coal | coal suitable for use under steam boilers |
creosote coal-tar creosote | a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar, used as a preservative for wood |
essential oil volatile oil | an oil having the odor or flavor of the plant from which it comes, used in perfume and flavorings |
medium | an intervening substance through which something is achieved, the dissolving medium is called a solvent |
culture medium medium | (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms |
medium | (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed |
contrast medium contrast material | a substance that is opaque to xays, when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills |
medium | a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter |
coal tar | a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal, coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds |