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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The solid residue of impure carbon obtained from bituminous coal and other carbonaceous materials after removal of volatile material by destructive distillation. It is used as a fuel and in making steel.
  2. v. To convert or be converted into coke.
  3. n. Cocaine.
  4. v. To affect or intoxicate with cocaine.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The solid product of the carbonization of coal, bearing the same relation to that substance that charcoal does to wood. It is an important article in metallurgy, since few bituminous coals can be used for the manufacture of iron without having been first coked. The coking coals, as, they are called, are bituminous, and such as contain but a small percentage of water. Hence the coals as recent as the Tertiary—brown-coals or lignites—rarely furnish coke; that is, the material left behind after the bituminous or volatile matter has been driven off is a powder, and not the coherent somewhat vesicular substance to which the name of coke is given. The nature of the difference between coking and non-coking coals has not yet been fully made out, and it is stated on good authority that some coal which cokes readily when first mined does not do so after having been exposed to the atmosphere, if only for a few days. The use of coke dates certainly as far back as the middle of the seventeenth century. Its preparation was formerly known as charking or charring, and the word was often, and is still occasionally, written coak.
  2. To convert (coal) into coke.
  3. To become coke; be convertible into coke: as, a coking coal.
  4. Sometimes spelled coak.
  5. n. A Middle English form of cook.

Wiktionary

  1. n. 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. v. transitive To produce coke from coal.
  3. v. intransitive To turn into coke.
  4. n. informal, countable any cola-flavored drink, especially Coca-Cola.
  5. n. southern US any soft drink
  6. n. informal, slang, uncountable cocaine.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where � smokeless fire is required.
  2. v. To convert into coke.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal
  2. n. Coca Cola is a trademarked cola
  3. n. street names for cocaine
  4. v. become coke

Etymologies

  1. 1909, American company Coca-Cola (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps from Middle English colk, core. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. carbonize
  1. coaly

hypernyms (7)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. fuel
  1. dope
  1. cola
  1. cocaine
  1. cocain
  1. turn
  1. change state

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. cocaine
  2. soda
  3. charcoal
  4. dope
  1. opium
  2. coal
  3. vodka
  4. hamburger
  1. meth
  2. cola
  3. anthracite
  4. comcast
  1. cnet
  2. rum
  3. slag
  4. beer
  1. pizza
  2. gasoline
  3. chocolate
  4. booze
  1. champagne
  2. tobacco

rhymes (38)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Baroque
  2. Koch
  3. Polk
  4. Stoke
  5. Wouk
  6. awoke
  7. baroque
  1. bloke
  2. boak
  3. broke
  4. choke
  5. cloak
  6. cloke
  7. croak
  1. doke
  2. evoke
  3. folk
  4. hoke
  5. invoke
  6. joke
  7. kolk
  1. misspoke
  2. moke
  3. oak
  4. poke
  5. provoke
  6. revoke
  7. roque
  1. smoak
  2. smoke
  3. soak
  4. spoke
  5. stoke
  6. stroke
  7. woke
  1. yoak
  2. yoke
  3. yolk

reverse dictionary (74)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. coak
  2. aitken's coke-oven
  3. appolt coke-oven
  4. coal-mill
  5. coke-furnace
  6. coke
  7. cinder
  8. ammonia
  9. coke-bed
  10. firelighter
  11. gas coke
  12. carbonization
  13. chaldron
  14. quench
  1. slack-dross
  2. twaite
  3. brasque
  4. breeze
  5. oven-coke
  6. pit-kiln
  7. black-ends
  8. carbolite
  9. carbonite
  10. coke-dust
  11. coke-gas
  12. coke-kiln
  13. coke-plate
  14. coke-scrubber
  1. coking-plate
  2. coking-stoker
  3. coky
  4. water gas
  5. blast furnace
  6. breeze-oven
  7. charcoal-plates
  8. cinder-frame
  9. coke-barrow
  10. coke-omnibus
  11. cokes
  12. coke-tower
  13. coking
  14. coking-kiln
  1. crozzle
  2. dead-plate
  3. desulphurize
  4. gas-carbon
  5. destructive distillation
  6. producer gas
  7. Bowen
  8. Coke
  9. lech
  10. caking coal
  11. gas carbon
  12. acheson process
  13. air gas
  14. carbonisation
  1. residual product
  2. anchor
  3. anchor-oven
  4. coke-oven
  5. air-regenerator
  6. car-loader
  7. cascade-bottle
  8. charging-machine
  9. coke-breeze
  10. coke-mill
  11. dome-kiln
  12. equalizer
  13. gypsine
  14. process
  1. pyrogas
  2. stup
  3. trunnel-head
  4. ton

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  • jennarenn Cheerwine is still around and kicking, although you can only find Diet Cheerwine in the Carolinas.

    Oh Colleen, would you say, "I want a regular diet Coke"? Just wondering. Oct 11, 2007

  • skipvia RC (Royal Crown) Cola might have narrowed it down to a region for you, but Cheerwine should have nailed it. I think it's still being produced down there.

    If you want to get very specific, think Blenheim Ginger Ale. You used to have to drive to Blenhein, SC to find it. It was "discovered" in the 80's and is now available nationwide, even in a diet version. Sad...

    Oct 10, 2007

  • colleen skipvia, all you had to do was say Cheerwine and we'da known what state you was from. ;)

    I believe that strictly speaking soda has sodium bicarb to make the fizz (hence the name, yes?) and that there is a water that is just aerated, but I am not sure what it is called. Oct 10, 2007

  • uselessness Oh come now, c_b, do you still expect conversations to stay on-topic around here? More to the point, do you want them to? :-P Oct 10, 2007

  • reesetee Because I hijacked the discussion some time ago (purely unintentionally). See below. Oct 10, 2007

  • chained_bear Tonic is vile. Seltzer, at least American seltzer, is way gassier than the nice mineral water con gasso that I enjoyed in Italy. Though as a rule, I asked for aqua minerale naturale and not con gasso, the bubbles were far smaller, making the drink far easier to enjoy, because one doesn't become a volcanic eructation machine.

    Wait... why is this on the coke page?! Oct 10, 2007

  • reesetee It's especially good with ice cream and a bit of chocolate syrup. :-D Oct 10, 2007

  • uselessness Oh. How uncultured I am. ;-) So are we basically talking about seltzer then? I've enjoyed flavored seltzers in the past, but I don't think I'd like it plain. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad. Oct 10, 2007

  • yarb No! Tonic is not soda (carbonated) water. Tonic is carbed water made bitter by the addition of quinine and (usually but detrimentally) sweetened. You'd have to be a bit loopy to drink it without gin.

    Soda water is just water with gas, and this is fine on its own. I find it great for hangovers.

    I met an American once who referred to all carbonated drinks as "coke". When I was a kid we had the generic term pop, but that's gone out of fashion in the UK now, while remaining fairly current in Canada where I live.

    Edit: rt beat me to it. Oct 10, 2007

  • reesetee Well, not exactly tonic. I believe tonic has quinine added, while carbonated water is just...well, carbonated water. At least around here.

    I like it, but don't drink it much. Besides, the bubbles in the carbonated water I drank overseas were much smaller and less likely to blow out your sinuses than the bubbles in what you get in the States. Oct 10, 2007

  • skipvia If the waiter doesn't ask, you'll get "gas" by default. We learned to always specify beforehand because, like uselessness, I think drinking carbonated water is grotty. Oct 10, 2007

  • uselessness You mean like tonic? People drink that straight? Gross. Oct 10, 2007

  • reesetee In Italy (and probably other European countries) when you ask for water, you'll get the return question, "Gas?" Meaning, do you want carbonated or non-carbonated ("still") water?

    But at first I thought the waiter was asking a rather personal question. Oct 10, 2007

  • uselessness As in, "I want a regular coke"? How quaint. ;-) Oct 10, 2007

  • colleen You say "regular." Oct 10, 2007

  • skipvia Branding being what it is nowadays, the synonymous relationship has disappeared. I was referring to a time when your only choices were Coke, Pepsi, RC Cola, and Cheerwine, all made from syrup and seltzer at the counter. I'm so very old... Oct 10, 2007

  • uselessness How do you order a Coca-Cola Classic without the hassle of repeating yourself? Oct 10, 2007

  • skipvia This term was synonymous with soda where I grew up (SC). If you asked for a coke at a drug store soda fountain you'd be asked "what kind?" Oct 10, 2007

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