Peat

Definition: Peat

Peat

Noun

1. Partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; used as a fuel when dried.

Date "peat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Peat

Domain	Definitions
Energy	A heterogeneous mixture of partly decomposedorganic matter that has accumulated in a water saturated environment over a verylong period of time. Peat geologically is considered a very young form of coal andhas a heating value of 6,600 Btu/pound in situ. California has minor peatresources. (references)
Geography	Undercomposed or partly composed organic matter developed essentially under wet anaerobic conditions. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	There are two types of peat, low moor (Flachmoor) and high moor (Hochmoor) peat. Low moor peat is the most common starting material in coal genesis. It therefore constitutes a caustobiolith of low diagenetic degree. Peat is formed in marshes and swamps from the dead, and partly decomposed remains of the marsh vegetation. Stagnant ground water is necessary for peat formation to protect the residual plant material from decay. Peat has a yellowish brown to brownish black color, is generally of the fibrous consistency, and can be either plastic or friable; in its natural state it can be cut; further, it has a very high moisture content (above 75%, generally above 90%). It can be distinguished from brown coal by the fact that the greater part of its moisture content can be squeezed out by pressure (e.g., in the hand). Peat also contains more plant material in a reasonably good state of preservation than brown coal. Individual plant elements, such as roots, stems, leaves, and seeds, can commonly be seen in it with the unaided eye. Failing that, treatment of peat with dilute alkali will make visible many of these plant tissues. Further, peat is richer in cellulose than brown coal (reaction with Fehling's solution). Unlike brown coal, peat still contains cellulose, protected by lignin or cutin, which gives a reaction with chlorzinc iodide. Correspondingly, peat shows under the microscope tissues that have not undergone either lignification, suberinization, or cutinization; this is not the case in brown coal. The reflectance of peat is low (about 0.3%). Microscopicexamination is best undertaken with transmitted light. (references)
Science	Decayed plants in a wetland environment. Peat is the early stage in the development of coal. When dried, peat will burn freely. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Peat

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetable matter. Peat forms in wetlands called peatlands, examples of which are bogs, moors, muskegs, mires, and fens. Peat deposits are the first stage in formation of coal deposits.

Characteristics and uses

Peat is soft and easily compressed. Under pressure, water in the peat is forced out. Upon drying, peat can be used as a fuel, and is traditionally used for cooking and domestic heating in many countries including Ireland and Scotland, where stacks of drying peat dug from the bogs can still be seen in some rural areas. Peat is also dug into soil to increase the latter's capacity to retain moisture and add nutrients.

Dry peat beds can be a fire hazard. Peat deposits on the landscape pose a difficulty to builders of roads.

See also: peat moss

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Peat."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Peat

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
PEAT	English	Photo Electron Auger Thermal Wave	Engineering & Technology
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Peat

Synonym: Coal. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Peat

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fuel	Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Peat

English words defined with "peat": Andromeda polifolia ♦ Bog butter, bog moss, bog soil, Bogwood, brown coal ♦ Cespitine, common bog rosemary ♦ Gathering peat ♦ Hag ♦ lignite ♦ marsh andromeda, Moss land ♦ Peat bog, Peat moss, Peat reek, peaty, peaty , Pitch peat ♦ Quadrel ♦ Sphagnous, sphagnum, sphagnum moss ♦ Tunnel kiln, Turbinaceous, Turf drain ♦ wood coal. (references)

Specialty definitions using "peat": alga sapropel, allochthonous peat, amorphous peat, anthraxylon, autochthonous peat ♦ banded peat, Biofuel, black peat, bog muck, bog oak, bog peat ♦ calcareous peat, carbonification, caustolith, charred peat, coalification, coorongite, creeshy clod ♦ drift peat, drowned peat ♦ eutrophic peat ♦ float coal, forest moss peat, forest peat ♦ hill peat, humocoll ♦ incoalation ♦ labile protobitumens, limnic ♦ moor peat, moorland peat, moorlog, moss peat, muck fire ♦ nonasphaltic pyrobitumen ♦ older peat, oligotrophic peat, ombrogenous peat, organic soil, organic soil fire ♦ paludification, peat bed, peat blasting, peat fire, peat gel, peat hag, peat lump, peat machine, peat press, peat scours, peat spade, peatman, peat-to-anthracite theory, phragmites peat, phytolith, pollen peat ♦ quaking bog ♦ raw fuel, recurrence horizon ♦ sedimentary peat, SHREDDER TENDER, PEAT, Solid Fuels, sphagnum peat, string bog ♦ tallow peat, trackway ♦ ulmification, unconsolidated surface deposits ♦ warped peat. (references)

Etymologies containing "peat": Turbary. (references)

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Modern Usage: Peat

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Private Peat (1918)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Peat

Domain	Title
References	The 2000 Import and Export Market for Unagglomerated Peat in South Korea (reference) Guinness Peat Group plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) The 2000 Import and Export Market for Unagglomerated Peat in N. America & Caribbean (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	Adventures Underground: Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Mines, Quarries, Caves and Peat Beds (reference) KPMG Peat Marwick: The VaultReports.com Employer Profile for Job Seekers (reference) Peat and Water: Aspects of Water Retention and Dewatering in Peat (reference) Russian Coal Mining and Peat Industry Directory [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Peat [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Peat

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Photo Album: Peat

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	At a St. Petersburg school, student volunteers mix beach sand, peat moss, and vermiculite to plant nursery plants. Once the plants are established, Tampa Baywatch staff visit regularly and the students monitor the health of the plants once a week and measure salinity and PH in the ponds. This nursery was built on Feb. 24, 1998, donor plants taken on the 25th and planted on the 26th.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		Production. Magnesium. Like a scene in the Egyptian desert is the preparation area of Basic Magnesium's giant plant now nearing completion in the southern Nevada desert. The pyramidal form of 540 x 100-foot peat storage buildings is reminiscent of the Nil.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Mr. and Mrs. Thompson standing in front of their log and peat cabin. Thompson reckoned that he had had three crops out of nine on the land. Necedah project, Wisconsin.Credit: Library of Congress.		Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage building, 540 by 100 feet, a part of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Peat

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Latvia	Other than peat, dolomite, and limestone, natural resources are scarce. (references)
	Estonia	Estonia supplies 60% of its own energy converted from peat, wood, hydroelectric plants, and oil shale. (references)
	Burundi	Mining: Commercial quantities of alluvial gold, nickel, phosphates, rare earth, vanadium, and other; peat mining. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Peat

"Peat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.03% of the time. "Peat" is used about 758 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)	86.03%	652	10,033
Noun (proper)	10.41%	79	37,388
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.98%	15	90,616
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	1.58%	12	101,599
Total	100.00%	758	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Peat

The following table summarizes the usage of "peat" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Peat	Last name	400	22,003
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Peat

Country	Name
United Kingdom	Guinness Peat Group plc
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Peat

Expressions using "peat": black peat ♦ cut peat ♦ dig peat ♦ drowned peat ♦ garden peat ♦ Gathering peat ♦ highmoor peat ♦ milled peat ♦ moss peat ♦ older peat ♦ peat bog ♦ peat coal ♦ peat fire ♦ peat lump ♦ peat moss ♦ peat reek ♦ peat scours ♦ pitch peat ♦ sedimentary peat ♦ Sphagnum peat ♦ warped peat. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "peat": peat-based, peat-beds, peat-bog, peat-bogs, peat-brown, peat-carrier, peat-coloured, peat-covered, peat-cut, peat-cuts, peat-cutting, peat-development, peat-digger, peat-diggers, peat-digging, peat-extracting, peat-filled, peat-free, peat-fuelled, peat-grass, peat-laden, peat-like, peat-moulding, peat-pits, peat-raised, peat-stacks, peat-stained, peat-substitute, peat-swamp.
	Ending with "peat": anti-peat, non-peat, semi-peat.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Peat

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
peat moss	114	brook joan maine peat	3
peat	78	peat soil	3
kpmg peat marwick	32	eucalyptus fungi peat	3
peat marwick	21	container fungi peat	3
peat pot	16	kpmg peat marwick llp	3
sphagnum peat moss	15	fuel peat	3
peat taylor	11	bath peat	3
bog peat	9	concrete moss peat sand	3
coco peat	9	marwivk new orleans peat	3
peat ray	8	fungi peat	3
peat steve	7	jiffy peat pot	3
peat pellets	7	inn peat	3
fertilizer moss peat	5	peat sweet	3
lindow moss peat	5	peat moss septic system	3
guinness peat	4	guinness peat group	3
moss peat use	4	bath natural peat	3
bisel fern peat	4	moss peat sale	3
amanda peat	4	greece peat product	2
jiffy peat pellets	3	irish peat	2
peat sculpture	3	dr peat ray	2
		peat sorb	2
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Modern Translations: Peat

Language		Translations for "peat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		torfe (peaty), torfë (peatery, turf). (various references)

Arabic		‏سوقة, ‏صعاليك, ‏خث نسيج نباتي, ‏خث للوقود, ‏إمرأة مرحة وقحة, ‏إستخرج الخث, ‏رعاع (rabble, riffraff, trash). (various references)

Bulgarian		торфен (peaty), торф (sward, turf). (various references)

Chinese		泥煤. (various references)

Czech		rašelina (turf). (various references)

Danish		toerv, tørv. (various references)

Dutch		turf. (various references)

Esperanto		torfo. (various references)

Faeroese		torv. (various references)

Farsi		معشوقه (Girl, Ladylove, Love, Mistress, Paramour, Pet, Stallion, Sweetheart), کودگیاهی (Mulch), تورب , زن فاسد, عزیزدردانه , ذغال سنگ نارس (Turf). (various references)

Finnish		turve (muck, sod, turf). (various references)

French		tourbe. (various references)

German		Torf (turf). (various references)

Greek		τύρφη. (various references)

Hungarian		turfa (turf, turves), tőzeg (turf, turves). (various references)

Indonesian		gambut (peat moss, turf). (various references)

Irish		móin. (various references)

Italian		torba (turf). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		泥炭 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		でいた�". (various references)

Korean		� 탄. (various references)

Manx		moain (turf). (various references)

Pig Latin		eatpay

Portuguese		turfa (stand of grass, turf). (various references)

Romanian		turbã, brichetã de turbã. (various references)

Russian		торфяной брикет, торфяной (peaty, turfy), торф (turf). (various references)

Scottish		mòin , mòine, fòid (clod, sod, turf). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tresetni (peaty), treset (peat coal, turf). (various references)

Spanish		turba (mob, turf). (various references)

Swedish		torv. (various references)

Turkish		turba (turf), bataklık kömürü. (various references)

Ukranian		торф (turf). (various references)

Vietnamese		than bùn cục than bùn, người đẹp. (various references)

Welsh		mawnog (peat bog), mawnen, mawn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Peat

Derivations
	Words beginning with "peat": peatier, peatiest, peats, peaty. (additional references)
	Words ending with "peat": repeat, rerepeat. (additional references)
	Words containing "peat": clypeate, repeatabilities, repeatability, repeatable, repeated, repeatedly, repeater, repeaters, repeating, repeats, rerepeated, rerepeating, rerepeats, unrepeatable. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Peat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: epit, epot, epte, Mpheta, oeat, paet, pata, patae, pcat, peab, pead, peaf, peah, peam, peast, peata, peate, peath, peats, peau, peav, peaw, peax, peaz, pect, pedaet, peeet, peet, peit, penat, penate, peot, pesate, peta, petai, pewt, pexa, peyt, phat, phea, pheat, pheet, pheta, Piast, piat, poat, poeta, pota, preat, preaty, prefat, preit, psat, Puat, Pusat, upeat. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Peat"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "peat" (pronounced pē"t)
3	p ē" t	compete, repeat.
2	-ē" t	backseat, beat, beet, cheat, cleat, complete, conceit, concrete, deceit, defeat, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, downbeat, eat, effete, elite, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, greet, heat, incomplete, indiscreet, leet, Marguerite, meat, meet, mete, mistreat, neat, offbeat, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, retreat, seat, secrete, sheet, shit, Skeet, sleet, Street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, unseat, wheat.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Peat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: pate, tape, tepa.
	Words within the letters "a-e-p-t"
	-1 letter: ape, apt, ate, eat, eta, pat, pea, pet, tae, tap, tea.
	-2 letters: ae, at, et, pa, pe, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-p-t"
	+1 letter: adept, apter, epact, etape, expat, leapt, lepta, palet, paste, pated, paten, pater, pates, peart, peats, peaty, petal, pieta, plate, pleat, prate, septa, spate, taped, taper, tapes, taupe, tepal, tepas.
	+2 letters: accept, adepts, aplite, aptest, arpent, aspect, caplet, capote, carpet, depart, enrapt, entrap, epacts, etapes, expats, hapten, hepcat, heptad, lappet, metepa, opiate, packet, palate, palest, palets, pallet, palter, panted, pantie, parent, parget, parted, pasted, pastel, paster, pastes, pastie, patens, patent, paters, patine, patted, pattee, patten, patter, pattie, patzer, peanut, pedant, pedate, pelota, pentad, peseta, petals, petard, petnap, petsai, pietas, pineta, pirate, placet, planet, plated, platen, plater, plates, pleats, potage, prated, prater, prates, preact, pretax, protea, pupate, repast, repeat, retape, sapote, septal, spates, spathe, stapes, staple, takeup, tamped, tamper, tapers, tapeta, tapped, tapper, tappet, taupes, tawpie, teacup, teapot, teapoy, teopan, tepals, tephra, teraph, threap, toecap, trapes, trepan, upbeat, update, uprate, uptake, uptear, watape.
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