Charcoal
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English
Etymology
Middle English charcole "charcoal" from charren (“to turn", from Old English cierran "to turn"”) + cole (“coal", from Old English col "coal”). More at ajar, coal.
Pronunciation
Noun
Charcoal (plural Charcoals)- Impure carbon obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of oxygen.
- A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
- A drawing made with charcoal.
- A very dark gray colour.
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Charcoal colour:
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Adjective
Charcoal
- Of a dark gray colour.
Verb
Charcoal (third-person singular simple present Charcoals, present participle Charcoaling, simple past and past participle Charcoaled)
See also
Thesaurus
air brush, alcohol, art paper, ash, ashes, benzine, black and white, blackening, blacking, blackwash, brand, briquette, brouillon, brush, burnable, burnt cork, butane, calx, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, carbon, carbon black, cartoon, chalk, charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, cinder, clinker, coal, coke, combustible, coom, crayon, crow, delineation, design, diagram, doodle, dope, draft, drafting, drawing, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, dross, easel, ebauche, ebon, ebony, esquisse, ethane, ethanol, fireball, firing, fixative, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, fume, gas, gas black, gas carbon, gasoline, graph, ground, heptane, hexane, inflammable, inflammable material, ink, isooctane, jet, jet fuel, kerosene, lampblack, lava, lay figure, line drawing, maulstick, medium, methane, methanol, natural gas, night, octane, oil, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, paraffin, pastel, peat, pen-and-ink, pencil, pencil drawing, pentane, pigments, pitch, propane, propellant, raven, reek, rocket fuel, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, scoria, scratchboard, siccative, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, sketch, sketchbook, sketching, sketchpad, slag, sloe, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, spatula, spray gun, stove black, study, stump, sullage, tar, tracing, turf, varnish, vignette
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