Char

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To burn the surface of; scorch.
  • v. To reduce to carbon or charcoal by incomplete combustion.
  • verb-intransitive. To become scorched.
  • verb-intransitive. To become reduced to carbon or charcoal. See Synonyms at burn1.
  • n. A substance that has been scorched, burned, or reduced to charcoal.
  • n. Any of several fishes of the genus Salvelinus, especially the arctic char, related to the trout and salmon.
  • n. A charwoman.
  • verb-intransitive. To work as a charwoman.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A time; a turn or occasion.
  • n. A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
  • n. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
  • n. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
  • v. To turn, especially away or aside.
  • v. To work, especially to do housework.
  • n. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus or the brook trout.
  • v. To burn something to charcoal.
  • v. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
  • n. A charred substance.
  • n. A character (text element such as a letter or symbol), whose data size is commonly one or several bytes.
  • n. tea (drink)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. A car; a chariot.
  • n. Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.
  • v. To perform; to do; to finish.
  • v. To work or hew, as stone.
  • verb-intransitive. To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.
  • v. To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
  • v. To burn slightly or partially.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A turn.
  • n. A particular time.
  • n. A motion; an act.
  • n. A particular thing to do; a single piece of work; a job; in the plural, miscellaneous jobs; work done by the day. See chore.
  • To turn; give another direction to.
  • To lead or drive.
  • To stop or turn back: in this sense only chare.
  • To separate (chaff) from the grain: in this sense only chare.
  • To do; perform; execute.
  • To turn; return.
  • To go; wend.
  • To work in the house of another by the day; do chares or chores; do small jobs.
  • To burn or reduce to charcoal.
  • To burn the surface of more or less: as, to char the inside of a barrel (a process regularly employed for some purposes); the timbers were badly charred.
  • n. Charcoal.
  • In building, to hew; work, as stone.
  • n. A fish of the family Salmonidæ and genus Salvelinus.
  • n. A car; a chariot.
  • Ajar.
  • n. An old wine-measure. In Geneva it was about 145 United States gallons.
  • n. An island or sandbank formed in a stream.
  • To scorch; burn; ‘singe’ (liquids): as, to char the wort in brewing.
  • To become charcoal.
  • n. In sugar manufacturing, concentrated sweet water or liquor highly charged with dissolved sugar.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a human female employed to do housework
  • n. a charred substance
  • v. burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
  • v. burn to charcoal
  • n. any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
  • Equivalent
    charr    chare   
    Verb Form
    charred    charring    chars   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cleaner    burn    combust   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    charred    charring    chare   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    car    chariot    chore    perform    do    finish    cleaning woman    cleaning lady    charcoal    charlady   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adar    Aer    Afar    Ajar    Ar    Azar    Babar    Bar    Barr    Belvoir   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    scorch    sodden    jagged    crumple    rotten    mangle    brittle    lifeless    dusty    burnt-out