Meaning

(uncountable) Solid 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..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Solid 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.
2. (transitive) To produce coke from coal.
3. (intransitive) To turn into coke.
4. (especially automotive, astronautics) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
5. (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
6. (uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
7. (countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
8. (US, chiefly Southern US, New Mexico, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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

Word Forms

• coak
• cokes
• coking
• coked

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