separation | the act of dividing or disconnecting |
separation | the social act of separating or parting company, the separation of church and state |
legal separation separation | (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order) |
separation | sorting one thing from others, the separation of wheat from chaff, the separation of mail by postal zones |
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 |
grade separation | a crossing that uses an underpass or overpass |
scuttle coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
coal black ebony jet black pitch black sable soot black | a very dark black |
interval separation | the distance between things, fragile items require separation and cushioning |
legal separation judicial separation | a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart |
separation | the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal) |
separation breakup detachment | coming apart |
coal industry | the producers of coal considered collectively |
separation | the space where a division or parting occurs, he hid in the separation between walls |
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 |
coal miner collier pitman | someone who works in a coal mine |
binding energy separation energy | the energy required to separate particles from a molecule or atom or nucleus, equals the mass defect |
anthracosis black lung black lung disease coal miner's lung | lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust |
separation | the state of lacking unity |
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 |
coal tar | a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal, coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds |
coal | take in coal, The big ship coaled |
coal | supply with coal |
char coal | burn to charcoal, Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything |
coal-black jet jet-black pitchy sooty | of the blackest black, similar to the color of jet or coal |
coal-fired coal-burning | fueled by burning coal, a coal-fired ship |
graded ranked stratified | arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks, stratified areas of the distribution |
bear-sized | large as a bear |
king-size king-sized | extra large, a king-size bed |
life-size lifesize life-sized full-size | being of the same size as an original, a life-size sculpture |
man-sized | very large, appropriate to the size of a man, a man-sized piece of cake |
queen-size queen-sized | (used especially of beds) not as large as king-size, a queen-sized bed |
olive-sized | about the size of an olive |
pocket-size pocket-sized pocketable | small enough to be carried in a garment pocket, pocket-size paperbacks |