Definitions for CHAR
tʃɑrchar

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. charnoun

   a charred substance

2. charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, womannoun

   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"

3. char, charrverb

   any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus

4. char, coalverb

   burn to charcoal

   "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

5. char, blacken, sear, scorchverb

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. charnoun

   A charred substance

2. charverb

   To burn something to charcoal.

3. charverb

   To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.

4. charnoun

   A character (text element such as a letter or symbol), whose data size is commonly one or several bytes.

5. charnoun

   In C language, a byte, usable to store a character in legacy encodings.

6. charnoun

   tea (drink)

7. Charnoun

   A nickname for Charlotte

8. charnoun

   Plural form of charwoman.

9. Etymology: Origin unknown, perhaps from Celtic.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Car, Char

   in the names of places, seem to have relation to the British caer, a city. Edmund Gibson Camden.

2. Charnoun

   A fish found only in Winander meer in Lancashire.

   Etymology: of uncertain derivation.

3. CHARnoun

   Etymology: cyrre , work, Sax. Edward Lye. It is derived by Skinner , either from charge , Fr. business, or care , Sax. care, or keeren , Dutch, to sweep.

   Work done by the day; a single job or task.

   But a meer woman, and commanded
   By such poor passion, as the maid that milks,
   And does the meanest chars. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.

   Harvest done, to char work did aspire;
   Meat, drink, and twopence, were her daily hire. Dryden.

4. To Charverb

   To burn wood to a black cinder.

   Spraywood, in charring, parts frequently into various cracks. John Woodward, on Fossils.

5. To Charverb

   To work at others houses by the day, without being a hired servant.

   Etymology: from the noun.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. char

   In programming languages, "char" is a data type used to represent characters including numbers, letters, punctuation, spaces, and more. It's typically one byte in size and can contain any character in the ASCII set (or others, depending on the coding standard used). The word "char" is short for "character".

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Charnoun

   alt. of Charr

2. Charnoun

   a car; a chariot

3. Charnoun

   work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore

4. Charverb

   alt. of Chare

5. Charverb

   alt. of Chare

6. Charnoun

   to reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder

7. Charnoun

   to burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood

8. Etymology: [Prob. the same word as char to perform (see Char, n.), the modern use coming from charcoal, prop. coal-turned, turned to coal.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Char

   chär, n. a small fish of the salmon kind, found in mountain lakes and rivers. [Prob. Celt.; cf. Gael, ceara, red, blood-coloured.]

2. Char

   chär, v.t. to roast or burn until reduced to carbon or coal, to scorch:—pr.p. char′ring; pa.p. charred.—adj. Char′ry, pertaining to charcoal. [Prob. formed from char-coal.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. char

   Shorthand for ‘character’. Esp.: used by C programmers, as char is C's typename for character data.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. char

   A fine species of trout taken in our northern lakes.

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1. char

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2. CHAR

   What does CHAR stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the CHAR acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CHAR

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Char is ranked #27845 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Char surname appeared 862 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Char.
   
   57.8% or 499 total occurrences were Asian.
   18.2% or 157 total occurrences were White.
   14.2% or 123 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   6.2% or 54 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3.3% or 29 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Burn
   • Carbon
   • Cleaner
   • Cookery

Anagrams for CHAR »

1. rach

2. arch

How to pronounce CHAR?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say CHAR in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of CHAR in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of CHAR in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of CHAR in a Sentence

1. Restaurateur Loh Lik Peng:

   I'm not really sure what the reviewers from France will make of our local restaurants and tze char ['cook and fry'] street food.

2. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Companies are more fearful than retail investors because retailers are making profits by selling more shares than companies in the last 2 months and so companies have sponsored business news channels anchors who advise these days retail investors not to fear and sell their shares so frenzily. Retail investors are further ready to offload their shares on Monday as they know Market is on bearish mood and char shows steep downward trend.

3. Kurt Schwartz:

   When we're thinking of the Boston Marathon, that's a primary goal, we could create a 20-yard buffer between the street and the nearest spectator, but it would just so fundamentally change the char of the day, it would be short-sighted.

4. John Quinley:

   Dhaka should end its detention of refugees on Bhasan Char and grant freedom of movement for all people on the island, the reports of Rohingya dying while trying to flee the island by boat are extremely alarming.

5. Mohammad Shah Kamal:

   Since we don't have any place here we have to move them to Bhasan Char island and by September this year the relocation will be possible.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CHAR
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Char
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=CHAR
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CHAR
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=CHAR
7. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Char
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=CHAR
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html