char

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: charwomancleaning womancleaning ladywomancharrcoalblackensearscorch

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. a charred substance
  2. a human female employed to do housework“the char will clean the carpet”“I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write”Synonyms: charwomancleaning womancleaning ladywoman
  3. any of several small trout-like fish of the genus SalvelinusSynonyms: charr

Verb (2)

  1. burn to charcoal“Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything”Synonyms: coal
  2. 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: blackensearscorch
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. i. To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs. [1913 Webster]
Char \Char\ (ch[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charred (ch[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Charring.] [Prob. the same word as char to perform (see Char, n.), 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. [1913 Webster]

2.To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood. [1913 Webster]

Char \Char\, Charr \Charr\, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit., red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red belly.] (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]
Char \Char\, n. [F.] A car; a chariot. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Char \Char\, n. [OE. cherr, char a turning, time, work, AS. cerr, cyrr, turn, occasion, business, fr. cerran, cyrran, to turn; akin to OS. k["e]rian, OHG. ch["e]ran, G. kehren. Cf. Chore, Ajar.] Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore. [Written also chare.] [Eng.] [1913 Webster]

When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Char

Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. t. [See 3d Char.]

1.To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] --Nores. [1913 Webster]

Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband.— Old Proverb.[1913 Webster]

2.To work or hew, as stone. --Oxf. Gloss. [1913 Webster] Char

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

char

<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

char /keir/, /char/, /kar/, n.

Shorthand for ‘character’. Esp.: used by C programmers, as char is C's typename for character data.

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