Lignite

Definition: Lignite

Lignite

Noun

1. Intermediate between peat and bituminous coal.

Date "lignite" was first used: 1808. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Energy	Brownish black coal having qualities inbetween those of bituminous coal and peat. The texture of the original wood often isvisible in lignite. (references)
Mining	A non-agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value of less than 17, 435 kJ/kg(4, 165 kcal/kg), and greater than 31 per cent volatile matter on a dry mineral matter free basis. Source: European Union. (references)
	A. A brownish-black coal in which the alteration of vegetal material has proceeded further than in peat but not so far as subbituminous coal b. Coal of low rank with a high inherent moisture and volatile matter; in this general sense, lignite may be subdivided into black lignite, brownlignite, and brown coal. (references)
Weather	A brownish-black coal of low rank with high inherent moisture and volatile matter content, used almost exclusively for electric power generation. Also referred to as brown coal. See coal. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lignite

Synonyms: brown coal (n), wood coal (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Lignite

English words defined with "lignite": Bovey coal ♦ Cologne earth ♦ jet ♦ Laramie group, Lignitic, Lignitiferous ♦ montan wax, Moor coal. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lignite": branchite ♦ carbonification, cementitious fly ash, class C fly ash, coalification, Cologne umber ♦ explosive dusts ♦ Fleissner process ♦ ionite ♦ lignite A, lignite B, lignite wax, linear alkylbenzene sulfonate, Liqnipel process ♦ montana wax ♦ peat-to-anthracite theory, previtrain ♦ raw fuel ♦ Solid Fuels, subbituminous coal ♦ truffite ♦ wheelerite ♦ XYLOID COAL. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Lignite" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (lignite), Italian (lignite), Portuguese (lignite).

Domain	Title
References	The 2000 Import and Export Market for Coal, Peat and Lignite Briquettes, Ovoids and Solid Fuels in Latin America (reference) The 2002 World Forecasts of Coke and Semi-Coke of Coal, Lignite and Peat Export Supplies (reference) The 2000 Import and Export Market for Coal, Peat and Lignite Briquettes, Ovoids and Solid Fuels in Oceana (reference) The 2002 World Market Forecasts for Imported Coal, Lignite, and Peat (reference) The 2003 World Forecasts of Coal, Lignite, and Peat Export Supplies (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	The 2000 Import and Export Market for Coke and Semi-coke of Coal, Lignite, Peat and Briquettes in Asia [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Lignite coal mine operated by coop. Burlington project, North Dakota.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		This policy de-emphasizes lignite and oil as fuel sources, which currently provide most of Greece's electricity needs. (references)
		Romania�s domestic energy production from coal, lignite, oil, gas and hydropower, covers at present about 70% of the energy needs. (references)
		The increase in the use of natural gas over lignite and fuel oil will, however, reduce the necessity for the installation of flue gas desulfurization systems (FGDs) and electrostatic precipitator systems (ESPs). (references)
Economic History	Laos	SIZABLE LIGNITE AND COAL DEPOSITS ARE SET FOR IMMINENT DEVELOPMENT. (references)
	Slovakia	Natural resources: Antimony, mercury, iron, copper, lead, zinc, magnesite, limestone, lignite. (references)
	Bulgaria	A new 600 mW thermal power plant powered by locally-mined lignite coal at Maritsa East 1 will be built, owned and operated by the U.S.-owned AES Horizon. (references)
Trade	Turkey	Such materials include hard coal, lignite, petrocoke, petroleum, arsenic, mercury, lead sulfides and carbonates, fluorocarbons, other chemicals and scrap metals. (references)
	Ireland	Other items subject to import licensing requirements include coal and lignite fuel, a few products from the chemical and related industries, specified iron and steel products, various textiles and textile products, natural and synthetic precious and semi-precious stones and dust, zinc (plate, sheet, strip, and foil), and controlled items such as arms and munitions. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Lignite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Lignite" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.86%	52	47,145
Adjective (general or positive)	7.14%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	56	N/A

1. Lignite, AK (CDP, FIPS 43830)
Location: 63.89051 N, 149.04641 W
Population (1990): 99 (44 housing units)
Area: 150.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

2. Lignite, ND (city, FIPS 46540)
Location: 48.87688 N, 102.56370 W
Population (1990): 242 (126 housing units)
Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 58752
Country: USA

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Expression: Lignite

Expressions using "lignite": Brown Lignite ♦ lignite wax. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "lignite": clayey-lignite.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lignite

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
lignite	20
lignite nd	7
coal lignite	4
council energy lignite	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lignite

Language		Translations for "lignite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		linjit. (various references)

Arabic		‏الليجنيت ضرب من الفحم الحجرى. (various references)

Bulgarian		лигнит. (various references)

Chinese		褐煤. (various references)

Czech		hnìdé uhlí. (various references)

Danish		lignit (brown coal), brunkul (brown coal). (various references)

Dutch		ligniet (brown coal), bruinkool (brown coal). (various references)

Farsi		نوعی ذغال سنگ(مع.), ذغال قهوه ای , ذغال سنگ چوب نما. (various references)

Finnish		ruskohiili (brown coal). (various references)

French		lignite. (various references)

German		Braunkohle (brown coal), lignit (brown coal). (various references)

Greek		φαιάνθρακασ, λιγνίτησ (brown coal), λιγνίτης (brown coal). (various references)

Hungarian		lignit (brown coal, earth coal, wood coal). (various references)

Italian		lignite (brown coal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		褐炭 (brown coal), 埋もれ木 (obscurity), 亜炭 (brown coal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うもれぎ (obscurity), かったん (brown coal), あたん (brown coal). (various references)

Manx		geayl dhoan. (various references)

Pig Latin		ignitelay

Portuguese		lignite (brown coal). (various references)

Romanian		lignit. (various references)

Russian		лигнит (brown coal, lignit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lignit. (various references)

Spanish		lignito (brown coal). (various references)

Swedish		lignit, brunkol (brown coal). (various references)

Turkish		linyit (brown coal). (various references)

Ukranian		лігніт. (various references)

Vietnamese		than non. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Lignite

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	lignum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lignite

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lignite": lignites. (additional references)
	Words ending with "lignite": gelignite. (additional references)
	Words containing "lignite": gelignites. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lignite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dignite, Legentil, Legnice, lignage, lignate, Ligni, lignites, linate, lunite, lygnyte, Tlingit. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Lignite"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lignite" (pronounced li"gnī't)
3	-n ī' t	ammonite, bentonite, finite, fortnight, franklinite, limonite, midnight, monzonite, selenite, suburbanite, unite, urbanite.
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Anagrams: Lignite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-l-n-t"
	-1 letter: gentil, ignite, tieing, tiling, tingle.
	-2 letters: elint, genii, glint, ingle, inlet, legit, tinge.
	-3 letters: gelt, gent, gien, gilt, glen, inti, lent, lien, line, ling, lint, lite, nite, tile, tine, ting.
	-4 letters: eng, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, leg, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, net, nil, nit, teg, tel, ten, tie, til, tin.
	-5 letters: el.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-l-n-t"
	+1 letter: diligent, fileting, lignites, lingiest, retiling, tinglier.
	+2 letters: billeting, clingiest, delisting, detailing, eliciting, enlisting, entailing, entitling, entoiling, filleting, filtering, gainliest, gelignite, geniality, genitalia, genitalic, genitival, gentility, giantlike, gimleting, ignitable, ignitible, inletting, jingliest, kingliest, listening, littering, loitering, nightlife, relisting, retailing, retitling, tillering, tingliest, tinseling, toileting, vigilante.
	+3 letters: alienating, alimenting, antilogies, belittling, blistering, blithering, datelining, delighting, delimiting, depilating, diligently, eluviating, enticingly, etiolating, excitingly, exploiting, flittering, gadolinite, gelatinize, gelignites, gleization, glistening, glistering, glittering, guillotine, guiltiness, inflecting, ingestible, intaglioed, intangible, invigilate, laterizing, leistering, lentigines, levigating, levigation, levitating, liberating, lightening, lightering, metalising, metalizing, multigenic, nightlifes, philtering, relighting, retailings, retiringly, rivetingly, slithering, stenciling, televising, tinselling, toenailing, trailering, trellising, trigeminal, vigilantes, willingest.
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