Noun

• S: (n) coal (fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period)
• S: (n) ember, coal (a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) char, coal (burn to charcoal) "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) burn, combust (cause to burn or combust) "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"
• S: (v) ignite, light (cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat) "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
• S: (v) set ablaze, set aflame, set on fire, set afire (set fire to; cause to start burning) "Lightening set fire to the forest"
• S: (v) char, coal (burn to charcoal) "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"
• S: (v) deflagrate (cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity) "care must be exercised when this substance is to be deflagrated"
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) char [Related to: char] (a charred substance)
• derivationally related form
• Overview
• synset
• W: (n) coal [Related to: coal] (fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period)
• W: (n) coal [Related to: coal] (a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering)
• sentence frame
• S: (v) coal (supply with coal)
• S: (v) coal (take in coal) "The big ship coaled"