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
n 1: a charred substance
2: a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the
carpet" [syn: charwoman, cleaning woman, cleaning
lady, woman]
3: any of several small-scaled trout
v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire
will char everything" [syn: 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: blacken, scorch]
[also: charring, charred]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
char /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. Shorthand for `character'. Esp.
used by C programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data.
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
char
/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 Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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