coke

alternative coak

1. uncountableSolid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.

   The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.

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   This Messrs. Greener and Straite allege they have effected by taking a quantity of lampblack or powdered charcoal, or of powdered coke, and which has been purified, by the action of electricity from sulphur and any other mixtures, and digesting the same in diluted nitro-muriatic acid.

   1846, editorial staff, “CHEMISTRY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 102

   At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making.

   1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 129, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 333

present singular third person cokes · participle present coking · participle past coked · past coked · alternative coak

1. transitiveTo produce coke from coal.
2. intransitiveTo turn into coke.
3. especiallyaerospaceTo add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.

   In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.

1. informalslanguncountableCocaine.

plural cokes

1. informaluncountableAlternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
2. countableinformalAlternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
3. Southern USUSinformalNew MexicoAlternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).

plural Cokes · alternative coke

1. countableinformaluncountableCola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
2. countableinformalA bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.

   'You have a coke and I'll have a beer and we can talk business.'

   1958, Franklin Martin, “The Trouble with Mrs. Benton”, in Venus, volume 1, number 1, Garden of Eve Publications, page 16

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   The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.

   1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168

3. Southern USUScountableespeciallyinformaluncountablegenericized trademarkAny soft drink, regardless of type.

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