Coal vs. Snow — What's the Difference?

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.

Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout its life cycle, starting when, under suitable conditions, the ice crystals form in the atmosphere, increase to millimeter size, precipitate and accumulate on surfaces, then metamorphose in place, and ultimately melt, slide or sublimate away.

A combustible black or dark brown rock consisting chiefly of carbonized plant matter, found mainly in underground seams and used as fuel

Atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer

Provide with a supply of coal

A mass of flickering white spots on a television or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal

A natural dark brown to black graphitelike material used as a fuel, formed from fossilized plants and consisting of amorphous carbon with various organic and some inorganic compounds.

A dessert or other dish resembling snow

A piece of this substance.

Cocaine.

A glowing or charred piece of solid fuel.

Snow falls

Charcoal.

Mislead or charm (someone) with elaborate and insincere words

To burn (a combustible solid) to a charcoal residue.

Frozen precipitation consisting of hexagonally symmetrical ice crystals that form soft, white flakes.

To provide with coal.

A falling of snow; a snowstorm.

To take on coal.

The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception.

(uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.

(Slang) Cocaine.

(countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.

(Slang) Heroin.

(countable) A piece of coal used for burning this use is less common in American English

To fall as or in snow.

(countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.

To cover, shut off, or close off with snow

Charcoal.

(Slang) To overwhelm with insincere talk, especially with flattery.

(intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).

(uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.

(transitive) To supply with coal.

(uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.

(intransitive) To be converted to charcoal.

(countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.

(transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.

(uncountable) A shade of the color white.

(transitive) To mark or delineate with charcoal.

(uncountable) The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

Cocaine.

A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

Marine snow

To burn to charcoal; to char.

A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, trysail-mast stepped immediately abaft the main mast.

To mark or delineate with charcoal.

(impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.

To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.

(colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.

To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.

(poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards{{cite-book

Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

A hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire

Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.

Burn to charcoal;

Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.

Supply with coal

To fall in or as snow; - chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.

Take in coal;

To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground

English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)

Street names for cocaine

Fall as snow;

Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end;