charcoalとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English charcole, from charren (“to change, turn”) + cole (“coal”), from 古期英語 cierran (“to change, turn”) + col (“coal”); equivalent to char (語源 3 (verb)) +‎ coal.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɑː.kəʊl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.koʊl/
• 韻: -ɑːkəʊl, -ɑɹkoʊl

名詞

charcoal (usually uncountable, 複数形 charcoals)

1. (countable, uncountable) Impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 2, pages 325-326:

     The grate was laid with charcoal, to that she put a light, and then, as if she had forgotten something, hurried to the library, and carefully locked the door. First returning to see that the fire had kindled, she then went to the window, which, with the first gleam of moonlight, she cautiously unclosed, and stepped into the shrubbery.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

2. (countable) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
   • 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, page 166:

     He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.

3. (countable) A drawing made with charcoal.
4. A very dark gray colour.

   charcoal:  

形容詞

charcoal (comparative more charcoal, superlative most charcoal)

1. Of a dark gray colour.
2. Made of charcoal.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[2]:

     But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

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動詞

charcoal (三人称単数 現在形 charcoals, 現在分詞 charcoaling, 過去形および過去分詞形 charcoaled)

1. To draw with charcoal.
2. To cook over charcoal.

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