Coal vs. Ember

Coalnoun

(uncountable) A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.

Coalnoun

(countable) A piece of coal used for burning. Note that in British English either of the following examples could be used, whereas the latter would be more common in American English.

Coalnoun

(countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.

Coalnoun

(countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.

Coalnoun

Charcoal.

Coalverb

(intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).

Coalverb

(transitive) To supply with coal.

Coalverb

(intransitive) To be converted to charcoal.

Coalverb

(transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.

Coalverb

(transitive) To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Coalnoun

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

Coalnoun

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.

Coalverb

To burn to charcoal; to char.

Coalverb

To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Coalverb

To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.

Coalverb

To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.

Coalnoun

fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

Coalnoun

a hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire

Coalverb

burn to charcoal;

Coalverb

supply with coal

Coalverb

take in coal;

Coalnoun

a combustible black or dark brown rock consisting chiefly of carbonized plant matter, found mainly in underground seams and used as fuel

Coalnoun

a piece of coal

Coalnoun

a red-hot piece of coal or other material in a fire

Coalverb

provide with a supply of coal

Coalverb

mine or extract coal

Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.

Embernoun

A glowing piece of coal or wood.

Embernoun

Smoldering ash.

Emberadjective

Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer.

Embernoun

A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; - used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.

Emberadjective

Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.

Embernoun

a hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire

Embernoun

a small piece of burning or glowing coal or wood in a dying fire

Ember

An ember is a glowing, hot coal made of greatly heated wood, coal, or other carbon-based material that remain after, or sometimes precede, a fire. Embers can glow very hot, sometimes as hot as the fire which created them.