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See also: Char, čhâr, Char., and chár

English

Etymology 1

Back-formation from charcoal.

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Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑː/ or IPA(key):
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑɹ/, , or IPA(key): /t͡ʃaɹ/, ,
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Verb

char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charring, simple past and past participle charred)

  1. (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
  2. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
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Noun

char (plural chars or char)

  1. A charred substance.
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Etymology 2

Unknown, perhaps from Celtic, such as Irish ceara (“fiery red”) (found in personal names). Or, perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German schar (“flounder, dab”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz, related to *skeraną (“to cut”), referring to its shape. If so, related to shard.

Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus

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Noun

char (plural chars or char)

  1. Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
    Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char.
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Etymology 3

From Middle English cherre (“odd job”), from Old English ċierr (“a turn, change, time, occasion, affair, business”), from ċierran (“to turn, change, turn oneself, go, come, proceed, turn back, return, regard, translate, persuade, convert, be converted, agree to, submit, make to submit, reduce”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).

Cognate with Dutch keer (“a time, turn, occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn, bight, bend”) and kehren (“to sweep”) or umkehren (“to return or reverse”), Greek γύρος (gýros, “a bout, whirl”), gyre. More at chore, ajar.

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Noun

char (plural chars)

  2. (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
  3. (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
  5. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
  6. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
    I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn't come.
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Verb

char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charing or charring, simple past and past participle chared or charred)

  1. (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
  2. To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
    • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty, Norton, published 2005, page 677:
      She explained that she was the commissionaire's wife, who did the charing, and I gave her the order for the coffee.
    • 1897, W. Somerset Maugham, Lisa of Lambeth, chapter 2
      Her husband had been a soldier, and from a grateful country she received a pension large enough to keep her from starvation, and by charring and doing such odd jobs as she could get she earned a little extra to supply herself with liquor.
  3. (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
  4. To work or hew (stone, etc.)

Etymology 4

Abbreviation of character, used as the name of a data type in some programming languages, including notably C.

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Noun

char (plural chars)

  1. (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
    • 1975 April 23, Computerworld, page 21:
      The unit is an 80-column, 30 char. /sec dot matrix printer which uses a 5 by 7 font.
    • 1997, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals:
      Chars can be considered as integers if need be without an explicit cast.
    • 1998, John R Hubbard, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Fundamentals of Computing with C++:
      Then since each char occupies one byte, these four bytes represent the three letters 'B', 'y', 'e', and the null character NUL.
    • 2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C#:
      When a 32-bit int value is stored to a 16-bit char variable, information can be lost if the 16 most significant bits are not zeroes in the int value.
    • 2000, Ken Brownsey, The essence of data structures using C++:
      Thus string variables are pointer variables to chars.
    • 2002, Nell B. Dale, Michael McMillan, Visual Basic .NET: a laboratory course - Page 25
      .NET uses the Unicode character set in which each char constant or variable takes up two bytes (16 bits) of storage.
  2. A character (being involved in the action of a story).
    • 2006, Yzabel, quotee, “The Y Logs”, in Deborah Woehr, editor, 2006 Writer’s Blog Anthology: A Collection of Works by Writers Who Blog, : Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 93:
      In fact, when I somewhat lack inspiration, I tend to convert my characters according to the rules of a game which universe is close enough (I did it for some of the chars in my WIP, taking the Cyberpunk 2020 rulebook).
    • 2008 September, Soulhacker, quotee, “Ongoing MMO Wars”, in GameAxis Unwired, number 60, Singapore: SPH Magazines Pte Ltd, →ISSN, page 11:
      WoW exp I feel that it is just a progress from Lv70 to 80 and then back to square one to raid\arena or die expansion. So I don’t see the point of going back just to level my char to 80 and let them idle at end-game.
    • 2020, Svitlana Klötzl, Birgit Swoboda, Interpersonal Positioning in English as a Lingua Franca Interactions‎, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, →ISBN:
      The class (an adventuring style (e.g. mage, warrior, hunter, etc.) of the character, which determines abilities, weapons, etc.) choice often also influences the gaming and language of a character during role-playing. As one of the participants states: / Character bound politeness is part of some of my chars – as well as impoliteness is. An example: A Paladin or Priest has to be polite in RPG according to his profession to the light, a Warlock is the opposite as well as rogues etc.
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Etymology 5

Non-rhotic spelling of cha.

Noun

char (uncountable)

  1. (British) Alternative form of cha (“tea”)

See also

References

  1. ^ Wright, L. (1996). Sources of London English: Medieval Thames Vocabulary. United Kingdom: Clarendon Press, p. 107
  2. ^ 1845, Oxford Glossary of Architecture

Anagrams

Atong (India)

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Etymology

From Hindi चार (cār).

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Numeral

char (Bengali script চার)

  1. four

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Cebuano

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: char

Interjection

char

  1. a noncommittal reply to an untrue statement
  2. spoken after something one has said that is untrue or highly ridiculous

Esperanto

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Conjunction

char

  1. H-system spelling of ĉar

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French char, from Latin carrus, a loan from Transalpine Gaulish. Doublet of car (“coach”), a borrowing from English.

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Noun

char m (plural chars)

  1. chariot, carriage
  2. float
  3. (military) tank
  4. (Acadia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Louisiana, New England, Missouri) car, auto
    Synonym: voiture
  5. (Louisiana) train car
    Synonym: voiture

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Irish

Etymology

cha +‎ -r

Pronunciation

Particle

char (triggers lenition of the following verb)

  1. (Ulster) not
    Char dhún mé é. ― I did not close it.
    Char chuala mé é. ― I did not hear it.

Usage notes

Used only in some varieties of Ulster Irish. Used only with the past tense of regular verbs and some irregular verbs.

Synonyms

  • níor (used in Munster Irish, Connacht Irish, and some varieties of Ulster Irish)

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  • cha (used before other tenses)

Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French char, charn.

Noun

char f (plural chars)

  1. flesh

Descendants

  • French: chair

Old French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From earlier charn, carn, from Latin carnem, accusative singular of carō.

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Noun

char oblique singular, f (oblique plural chars, nominative singular char, nominative plural chars)

  1. (anatomy) flesh (tissue from an animal in general)
    • 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:
      Desor l'espaule li fist la char trenchier
      under his shoulder, he cut into his flesh
  2. meat (flesh of an animal intended to be eaten)
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Etymology 2

From Latin carrus.

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Noun

char oblique singular, m (oblique plural chars, nominative singular chars, nominative plural char)

  1. cart
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Etymology 3

Alternative form of quer

Romani

Noun

char f (plural chara) Anglicized form of ćar

  1. grass
    Le grast xan char.
    The horses are eating grass.
  2. lawn

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin cārus.

Adjective

char m (feminine singular chara, masculine plural chars, feminine plural charas)

  1. dear

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

char

  1. (Wester Ross) independent past of rach

Usage notes

  • Dialectal form of the usual chaidh.

Tarifit

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic شهر (šhar).

Noun

char m (Tifinagh spelling ⵛⵀⴰⵔ, dual chrayn, plural chur or rchura)

  1. month

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

char m

  1. aspirate mutation of car (“car”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
car gar nghar char
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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