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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun char has 3 senses

char(n = noun.substance) - a charred substance;

is a kind of

atomic number 6

carbon

has particulars: animal black, animal charcoal, bone black, bone char, snuff

Derived form verb char₁

char(n = noun.person) charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, woman - 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"

is a kind of cleaner

char(n = noun.animal) charr - any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus;

is a kind of salmonid

is a member of genus salvelinus, salvelinus

has particulars: arctic char, salvelinus alpinus

Verb char has 2 senses

char(v = verb.weather) coal - burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

is one way to burn, combust

Derived form noun char₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

char(v = verb.change) blacken, scorch, sear - 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"

is one way to burn

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

char, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit., red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red belly.].

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. [1913 Webster]

char, n. [F.].

A car; a chariot. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

char, n. [OE. cherr, char a turning, time, work, AS. cerr, cyrr, turn, occasion, business, fr. cerran, cyrran, to turn; akin to OS. kërian, OHG. chëran, G. kehren. Cf. Chore, Ajar.].

Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore. [1913 Webster]

"When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave
To play till doomsday." [1913 Webster]

char, v. t. [See 3d Char.].

To perform; to do; to finish. Nores. [1913 Webster]
"Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband." [1913 Webster]
To work or hew, as stone. Oxf. Gloss. [1913 Webster]

char, v. i.

To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs. [1913 Webster]

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

To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder. [1913 Webster]
To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

char, v.tr. & intr. (charred, charring)
1 make or become black by burning; scorch.
2 burn or be burnt to charcoal.

char, n. & v. Brit. colloq.
--n. = CHARWOMAN.
--v.intr. (charred, charring) work as a charwoman.

char, n. (also cha) Brit. sl. tea.

char, n. (also charr) (pl. same) any small troutlike fish of the genus Salvelinus.

Etymology

17th c.: orig. unkn.

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THESAURUS

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

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char

Calefaction

VB heat, warm, chafe, stive, foment, make hot, sun oneself, sunbathe, go up in flames, burn to the ground (flame), fire, set fire to, set on fire, kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, strike a light, apply the match to, apply the torch to, rekindle, relume, fan the flame, add fuel to the flame, poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire, make a bonfire of, melt, thaw, fuse, liquefy, burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch, brand, cauterize, sear, burn in, corrode, char, calcine, incinerate, smelt, scorify, reduce to ashes, burn to a cinder, commit to the flames, consign to the flames, boil, digest, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer, do to rags, take fire, catch fire, blaze.