About The Word Char
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Char Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Char?
[n] any of several small-scaled trout
[n] a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet" [n] a charred substance [v] 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" [v] burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" Synonyms | Synonyms for Char: blacken | charwoman | cleaning lady | cleaning woman | coal | scorch | woman Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | animal black | animal charcoal | Arctic char | atomic number 6 | bone black | bone char | burn | burn | C | carbon | cleaner | combust | genus Salvelinus | salmonid | Salvelinus | Salvelinus alpinus | singe | snuff | swinge Char In Webster's Dictionary \Char\, Charr \Charr\, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit.,
red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red
belly.] (Zo["o]l.)
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.
\Char\, n. [F.] A car; a chariot. [Obs.] --Chaucer. \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.] When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday. --Shak. \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. t. [See 3d {Char}.] 1. To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] --Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. --Old Proverb. 2. To work or hew, as stone. --Oxf. Gloss. \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. i. To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs. \Char\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charred}; 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. 2. To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood. |
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