char : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: char	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for char
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
char n a charred substance a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" Synonym(s): charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus Synonym(s): char, charr v burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" Synonym(s): char, coal 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" Synonym(s): char, blacken, sear, scorch
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Char \Char\, n. [F.] A car; a chariot. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Char \Char\, Charr \Charr\, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit., red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red belly.] (Zo[94]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[89]rian, OHG. ch[89]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Char \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. i. To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Char \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.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
char /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. Shorthand for `character'. Esp. used by C programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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)