char

10 definitions found

char - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. t. [See 3d Char.]
     1. To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] --Nores.
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              Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she
              had hanged her husband.               --Old Proverb.
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     2. To work or hew, as stone. --Oxf. Gloss.
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  Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. i.
     To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant;
     to do small jobs.
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  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.
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     2. To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.
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  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.
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  Char \Char\, n. [F.]
     A car; a chariot. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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  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.]
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           When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave
           To play till doomsday.                   --Shak.
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char - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  char
      n 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" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman,
         cleaning lady, woman]
      3: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
         [syn: char, charr]
      v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest
           fire will char everything" [syn: char, 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" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]

char - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  char
  
     <programming> /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ character.
     Especially used by C programmers, as "char" is C's
     typename for character data.
  
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     (1994-11-29)
  

char - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  char
   /keir/, /char/, /kar/, n.
  
     Shorthand for `character'. Esp.: used by C programmers, as char is
  C's
     typename for character data.
  

char - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "char":
     blaze, blister, brand, burn, burn in, burn off, cast, cauterize,
     chare, charwoman, chore, cleaner, cleaner-off, cleaner-up,
     cleaning lady, cleaning man, cleaning woman, coal, crack, cupel,
     custodian, do chars, do the chores, flame, found, janitor,
     janitress, labor, oxidate, oxidize, parch, pyrolyze, scorch, sear,
     singe, solder, swinge, torrefy, turn a hand, vesicate, vulcanize,
     weld, work