{
    "term": "coal",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a hard black mineral that is found below the ground and burnt to produce heat",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I put more coal on the fire."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a lump of coal"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**coal mining**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She sat by the coal fire in the kitchen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Plans were being drawn up for the privatization of the coal industry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These men had spent their lives breathing coal dust."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are substantial reserves of methane gas trapped in coal seams in the area."
                },
                {
                    "text": "opencast coal mining"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Put some more coal on the fire."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["The environment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["clean", "smokeless", "hard"],
                "… of coal": ["lump", "piece"],
                "verb + coal": ["mine", "produce", "burn"],
                "coal + verb": ["burn"],
                "coal + noun": ["fire", "mine", "pit"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a piece of coal, especially one that is burning",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A hot coal fell out of the fire and burnt the carpet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Red-hot coals glowed in the fireplace."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["burning", "glowing", "hot"],
                "coal + verb": ["glow"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to take goods to a place where there are already plenty of them; to supply something where it is not needed",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to criticize somebody severely because they have done something wrong",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I was hauled over the coals by my boss for being late."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊl/",
                "audio": "co/coal/coal__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊl/",
                "audio": "co/coal/coal__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English col (in the senses ‘glowing ember’ and ‘charred remnant’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kool and German Kohle. The sense ‘combustible mineral used as fuel’ dates from Middle English."
}