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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Char \Char\, noun [F.] A car; a chariot. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Char \Char\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Char \Char\, Charr \Charr\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, verb (used without an object) To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Char \Char\ (ch[aum]r), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Charred} (ch[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Charring}.] [Prob. the same word as char to perform (see {Char}, noun), 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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
char
noun
1: a charred substance
2: a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet" [syn: {charwoman}, {cleaning woman}, {cleaning lady}, {woman}]
3: any of several small-scaled trout
verb
1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" [syn: {coal}]
2: 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" [syn: {blacken}, {scorch}] [also: {charring}, {charred}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [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)
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