Char

Alternative forms

 * charr

Pronunciation

 * (except for the etymology 4 in computing, see below)

Etymology 1
cherre: < cierr: from cierran: from  from. Akin to kerian:,  cheran: (German kehren). Compare Sanskrit "char" (to do), "kri" (to do), "kar" (to perform), and Persian (kar, work). More at chore, ajar.

Noun

 * 1)  a time; a turn or occasion
 * 2)  a turn of work; a labour or item of business
 * 3) an odd job, a chore or piece of housework
 * 4) a charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady
 * “I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn’t come”

Synonyms

 * charlady
 * charwoman
 * cleaning lady
 * cleaning woman

Verb

 * 1)  to turn, especially away or aside.
 * 2) to work, especially to do housework.
 * 3) * 1893, She explained that she was the commissionaire's wife, who did the charing, and I gave her the order for the coffee. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’ (Norton 2005, p.677)

Etymology 2
Origin unknown, perhaps from Celtic.

Noun

 * 1) One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus or the brook trout.  Scientific name: Salvelinus fontinalis.
 * “Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char.”

Verb

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

Synonyms

 * coal
 * blacken, scorch, sear, singe

Noun

 * 1) A charred substance

Synonyms

 * charcoal

Etymology 4
Abbreviation of character

Pronunciation

 * (most common)
 * (US only: from character, just like care, less common)
 * (just like car, less common)

Noun

 * 1)  A character (text element such as a letter or symbol), whose data size is commonly one byte.
 * 2) * 1997, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals
 * Chars can be considered as integers if need be without an explicit cast.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 2000, Ken Brownsey, The essence of data structures using C++
 * Thus string variables are pointer variables to chars.

Derived terms

 * signed char
 * unsigned char

Related terms

 * byte
 * double
 * float
 * int
 * long
 * short

Etymology 5
From Mandarin chah: or cha:

Noun

 * 1)  tea (drink)

Thesaurus
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

Noun

 * Bulgarian: чистачка
 * Finnish: taloudenhoitaja
 * German:


 * Greek: ,
 * Russian:

Noun

 * Finnish: puronieriä
 * German:
 * Russian: ручьевая форель, форель, пеструшка


 * Swedish:

Verb

 * Bulgarian: овъглявам
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,


 * German: ,
 * Greek: καρβουνιάζω
 * Russian: обугливать, обуглить


 * Bulgarian: обгарям
 * Finnish: ,


 * German: ,
 * Russian: чернить, коптить, обжигать, опалять

Noun

 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * Greek: άνθρακας (anthrakas), κάρβουνο (karvuno)
 * Russian:

Anagrams

 * arch, arch., Rach, rach

Etymology
caro:

Noun

 * 1) flesh

Etymology
carrus:, a loan from.

Noun

 * 1) chariot
 * 2)  tank
 * 3)  car (US), auto (UK)

Particle

 * 1) not

Related terms

 * cha

Synonyms

 * níor

Etymology
caro:

Noun

 * 1)  flesh

Descendants

 * French:

Noun

 * 1) grass
 * 2) field

Etymology
From carus:.

Adjective

 * 1) dear