char
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Back-formation from charcoal.
Alternative formsEdit
- chewre (obsolete)
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑː/ or IPA(key): [t͡ʃaː]
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑɹ/, [t͡ʃɑɹ], [t͡ʃɑ˞] or IPA(key): /t͡ʃaɹ/, [t͡ʃaɹ], [t͡ʃa˞]
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
VerbEdit
char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charring, simple past and past participle charred)
- (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
- To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
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NounEdit
char (plural chars or char)
- A charred substance.
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Etymology 2Edit
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.[1]
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char (plural chars or char)
- One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
- Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char.
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Etymology 3Edit
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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NounEdit
char (plural chars)
- (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
- (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
- An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- When thou hast done this chare, I’ll give thee leave to play till doomsday.
- A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
- I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn't come.
- 1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 163:
- But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage. “Nobody here yet, Miss,” said the char.
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VerbEdit
char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charing or charring, simple past and past participle chared or charred)
- (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
- 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 2005, p.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
- 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Naval Treaty" (Norton 2005, p.677)
- (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
- 1613–1614, William Shakespeare; John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii:
- All's chared when he is gone.
- To work or hew (stone, etc.)[2]
Etymology 4Edit
Abbreviation of character, used as the name of a data type in some programming languages, including notably C.
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char (plural chars)
- (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
- 1975, Computerworld - 23 April 1975 - 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.
- 1975, Computerworld - 23 April 1975 - Page 21
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Etymology 5Edit
Non-rhotic spelling of cha.
NounEdit
char (uncountable)
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Atong (India)Edit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
char (Bengali script চার)
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ReferencesEdit
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.
CebuanoEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: char
InterjectionEdit
char
- a noncommittal reply to an untrue statement
- spoken after something one has said that is untrue or highly ridiculous
EsperantoEdit
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ConjunctionEdit
char
- H-system spelling of ĉar
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French char, from Latin carrus, a loan from Transalpine Gaulish. Doublet of car (“coach”), a borrowing from English.
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NounEdit
char m (plural chars)
- chariot, carriage
- float
- (military) tank
- (Acadian French, New Brunswick, Quebec, Louisiana, Missouri) car, auto
- Synonym: voiture
- (Louisiana) train car
- Synonym: voiture
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Further readingEdit
- “char”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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ParticleEdit
char (triggers lenition of the following verb)
Usage notesEdit
Used only in some varieties of Ulster Irish. Used only with the past tense of regular verbs and some irregular verbs.
SynonymsEdit
- níor (used in Munster Irish, Connacht Irish, and some varieties of Ulster Irish)
Related termsEdit
- cha (used before other tenses)
Middle FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French char, charn.
NounEdit
char f (plural chars)
DescendantsEdit
- French: chair
Old FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From earlier charn, carn, from Latin carnem, accusative singular of carō.
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NounEdit
char f (oblique plural chars, nominative singular char, nominative plural chars)
- (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
- meat (flesh of an animal intended to be eaten)
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Etymology 2Edit
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NounEdit
char m (oblique plural chars, nominative singular chars, nominative plural char)
SynonymsEdit
- carre f
DescendantsEdit
- French: char
RomaniEdit
NounEdit
char f (plural chara) Anglicized form of ćar
RomanschEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
char m (feminine singular chara, masculine plural chars, feminine plural charas)
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
char m
- aspirate mutation of car (“car”)
MutationEdit
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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. |