'Charcoal' definitions:
Definition of 'charcoal'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of a very dark grey [syn: charcoal, charcoal-grey, charcoal-gray]
noun
A carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air [syn: charcoal, wood coal]
noun
A stick of black carbon material used for drawing [syn: charcoal, fusain]
noun
noun
A drawing made with a stick of black carbon material
verb
Draw, trace, or represent with charcoal
Definition of 'Charcoal'
From: GCIDE
- Charcoal \Char"coal`\, n. [See Char, v. t., to burn or to reduce to coal, and Coal.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Fine Arts) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster] charcoal-gray
Synonyms of 'charcoal'
From: Moby 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