Crossword clues for charcoal
charcoal
- Backyard briquettes
- A carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air
- A stick of black carbon material used for drawing
- A very dark gray color
- Drawing crayon
- Certain drawing pencil
- Artist's medium
- Very dark grey
- Cleaner fuel? Yes and no
- Solid fuel for a backyard barbecue
- Fuel - very dark grey
- Form of carbon
- It’s made by burners for use in burners
- Dark grey colour
- Barbecue item
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Charcoal \Char"coal`\, n. [See Char, v. t., to burn or to reduce to coal, and Coal.]
Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
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(Fine Arts) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
Animal charcoal, a fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; -- used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an absorbent and disinfectant.
Charcoal blacks, the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances.
Charcoal drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it.
Charcoal point, a carbon pencil prepared for use in an electric light apparatus.
Mineral charcoal, a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; -- known to miners as mother of coal.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., charcole, first element is either Old French charbon "charcoal," or, on the current theory, obsolete charren "to turn" (from Old English cerran) + cole "coal," thus, "to turn to coal."
Wiktionary
1 Of a dark gray colour. 2 Made of charcoal. n. (context uncountable English) impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen. v
1 To draw with charcoal. 2 To cook over charcoal.
WordNet
adj. very dark gray [syn: charcoal-gray, charcoal-grey]
n. a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air [syn: wood coal]
a stick of black carbon material used for drawing [syn: fusain]
a very dark gray color [syn: charcoal gray, charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey]
a drawing made with charcoal
v. draw, trace, or represent with charcoal
Wikipedia
Charcoal (Charlie Burlingame) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted as a member of the Thunderbolts and was created by a comic book fan for a "Create-A-Villain" contest sponsored by Marvel and Wizard Magazine and the alter-ego was created by Kurt Busiek.
Charcoal is the debut album by Champaign, Illinois indie rock band Sarge. It was released in 1996 on Mud Records, and featured the single "Dear Josie, Love Robyn."
Charcoal is a blackish residue of impure carbon obtained by heating animal and vegetable substances. Charcoal may also refer to:
- Charcoal (album), the debut album by indie rock band Sarge
- Charcoal (color), a colour that has the hue of charcoal
- Charcoal (comics), a Marvel Comics character and member of the Thunderbolts
- Charcoal (typeface), a sans-serif typeface designed by David Berlow of Font Bureau
Charcoal is a sans-serif typeface designed by David Berlow of Font Bureau during the period 1994–1997. Charcoal was the default menu font in Apple Computer's Mac OS 8 and 9, replacing the relatively harder-to-read Chicago as part of the new Platinum interface. In Mac OS X, it was replaced with Lucida Grande as the system typeface. Charcoal is designed for high legibility, even at smaller point sizes, displayed on computer monitors.
While similar in design to realist sans-serifs, Charcoal has a distinctive organic quality. The letterforms have a high x-height, a vertical axis, and maintain generous counter-form in and around the letterforms. Descending characters, g, j, p, q, and y are shallow, compensating for the high x-height, and allowing for reduced leading in text. While designed primarily for monitor display, Charcoal has had considerable popularity in print, including in letterpress printing.
Virtue is a free TrueType font of similar design sometimes used as a surrogate on non-Apple systems.
Charcoal is a light, black residue, consisting of carbon and any remaining ash, obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. Charcoal is usually produced by slow pyrolysis, the heating of wood or other substances in the absence of oxygen (see char and biochar).
Artists' charcoal is a form of dry art medium made of finely grounded organic materials that are held together by a gum or wax binder; which can also be produced without the use of binders by eliminating the oxygen inside the material during the production process. These charcoals are often used by artists for their versatile properties such as the rough texture that leaves marks less permanent than other art media.It can produce lines that are very light or intensely black while being easily removable and vulnerable to leave stains on paper. The dry medium can be applied to almost any surface from smooth to a very coarse. Fixatives are often used with charcoal drawings to solidify the positions to prevent erasing or rubbing off of charcoal dusts.
The method to create artists' charcoal is much similar to that of charcoal used throughout different types of fields such as producing gunpowder and cooking fuel. Therefore the type of wood material and preparation method allows different variation of charcoal to be produced.
Usage examples of "charcoal".
Now, too, that Achang had called him a pig, he had to get level also with that turmeric-tinted warrior, and, as he blew sullenly at his charcoal, he saw how.
He used a charcoal stump to write: Yes, they are the aliens who made the paths.
A few bees hurled themF selves into the white-hot charcoal, exploding like little s Above, the bee cloud grew.
River, seven-eight acres, enough high ground for a garden, with good charcoal timber, black mangrove and buttonwood, and one of the few springs along that coast.
The little room was hung all about with locust twigs, for their sweet scent, and was furnished only with a charcoal brazier and a charpai, which is a crude bed made of a wooden frame laced crisscross with ropes.
The prisoners sat in the sand among old rusted tins and bits of charcoal with their hands still manacled before them and the guards set out an old blue graniteware coffeepot and a stewpot of the same material and they drank coffee and ate a dish containing some kind of pale and fibrous tuber, some kind of meat, some kind of fowl.
She pointed to a pile of cushions opposite her, keeping the charcoal brazier and the oil lamp between them.
Later, as the excavation progressed, radiocarbon dates of at least 38,000 years were announced for charcoal from the hearths.
On Western, that meant kebabs and falafel and charcoal fumes that leaked to the sidewalk.
Unlike all the others, it was a charcoal sketch, almost Fauvist in its primitive vitality.
Next, he opened the firepot, and with his knife he fished a handful of waxed linen scraps from the lid, dipped them into the glowing charcoal of the pot and, when they were burning well, he placed them on the paper twists and the cones, and he blew gently on the flicker-ing yellow flames until the pile caught.
Usoq set the brazier on the stone inside the box, piled charcoal in it and used a firepot and pitchy splinters to start the charcoal burning.
Or, if the cupellation loss is neglected or calculated in some other manner, the slag or slags from the scorifier may be powdered and mixed with 20 grams of oxide of lead, 5 grams of borax, and 1 gram of charcoal.
Trend on Concord Station, Grozny Street, where the Style walked side by side with gray-suited, slumming Earthers from exclusive upper levels, the ruling class making their own statement in shades of pearl and charcoal.
The table held a cast-iron pot of water simmering on an intricately fashioned charcoal brazier, a porcelain pot, a tiny handleless cup, a bamboo spoon and bamboo whisk, and a small lacquered box.