char
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)
- a charred substanceType of carbon, CKinds bone black, snuff
- a human female employed to do housework“the char will clean the carpet”“Oh, good. The cleaning lady came, so I don't have to be embarrassed. — The Girlfriend Experience (via CoCA)”Synonyms: charwomancleaning womancleaning ladyType of cleaner, woman
- any of several small trout-like fish of the genus SalvelinusSynonyms: charrType of salmonidKinds Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinusMember of Salvelinus, genus Salvelinus
Verb (2)charred, charring, charing
- burn to charcoal“Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything”Synonyms: coalMore general burn, combust
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color“The cook blackened the chicken breast”“The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece”“the flames scorched the ceiling”Synonyms: blackensearscorchMore general burnMore specific singe, swinge
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Translations
Verb to burn something to charcoal
- Spanish
- carbonizar
- French
- carboniser
- German
- verkohlen
- Italian
- carbonizzare
- Portuguese
- carbonizar
- Russian
- обу́гливать obúglivatʹ
- Chinese
- 烧焦 shāojiāo
- Polish
- zwęglać
- Swedish
- förkolna
- Greek
- καρβουνιάζω karvouniázo
4 more languages
- Portuguese (PT)
- carbonizar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 燒焦 shāojiāo
- Catalan
- carbonitzar
- Finnish
- hiiltää
Noun char, trout-like fish
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit., red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red belly.
Zoology One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.
Origin: F.
A car; a chariot. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Origin: OE. cherr, char a turning, time, work, AS. cerr, cyrr, turn, occasion, business, fr. cerran, cyrran, to turn; akin to OS. kërian, OHG. chëran, G. kehren. Cf. Chore, Ajar.
Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore. [Written also chare.] British
When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday.— William Shakespeare
Origin: See 3d Char.
1. To perform; to do; to finish. obsolete Nores.
Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband.— Old Proverb.
2. To work or hew, as stone. Oxford Glossary of Architecture, 1845
To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.
Origin: Prob. the same word as char to perform (see Char, noun), the modern use coming from charcoal, prop. coal-turned, turned to coal.
1. To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
2. To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<programming> /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ character. Especially used by C programmers, as "char" is C's typename for character data. [Jargon File]
(1994-11-29)
The Jargon File
Shorthand for ‘character’. Esp.: used by C programmers, as char is C's typename for character data.