"coal seam" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coal seams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "coal seam (plural coal seams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Coal",
          "orig": "en:Coal",
          "parents": [
            "Fossil fuels",
            "Carbon",
            "Energy",
            "Natural resources",
            "Carbon group elements",
            "Nature",
            "Matter",
            "Chemical elements",
            "All topics",
            "Chemistry",
            "Fundamental",
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          "name": "Geology",
          "orig": "en:Geology",
          "parents": [
            "Earth sciences",
            "Sciences",
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            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The subsidence problem”, in Trains Illustrated, page 651",
          "text": "Alternatively, the N.C.B. agrees to pay a percentage of the cost of any repairs or preventive work that ensues from working the coal seam.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stratum of coal between strata of other rocks."
      ],
      "id": "en-coal_seam-en-noun-VTAy~wRu",
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ],
        [
          "stratum",
          "stratum"
        ],
        [
          "coal",
          "coal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) A stratum of coal between strata of other rocks."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "coal bed"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
          "word": "煤層"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "méicéng",
          "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
          "word": "煤层"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
          "word": "hiilisuoni"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
          "word": "kivihiilikerros"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
          "word": "veine de charbon"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Kohleflöz"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "síog ghuail"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "veta de carbón"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "coal seam"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coal seams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "coal seam (plural coal seams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "en:Coal",
        "en:Geology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The subsidence problem”, in Trains Illustrated, page 651",
          "text": "Alternatively, the N.C.B. agrees to pay a percentage of the cost of any repairs or preventive work that ensues from working the coal seam.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stratum of coal between strata of other rocks."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ],
        [
          "stratum",
          "stratum"
        ],
        [
          "coal",
          "coal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) A stratum of coal between strata of other rocks."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "coal bed"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
      "word": "煤層"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "méicéng",
      "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
      "word": "煤层"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
      "word": "hiilisuoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
      "word": "kivihiilikerros"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
      "word": "veine de charbon"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Kohleflöz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "síog ghuail"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "veta de carbón"
    }
  ],
  "word": "coal seam"
}