char

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

char
    n 1: a charred substance
    2: 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" [syn: {charwoman}, {char}, {cleaning woman},
       {cleaning lady}, {woman}]
    3: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
       [syn: {char}, {charr}]
    v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest
         fire will char everything" [syn: {char}, {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: {char}, {blacken}, {sear}, {scorch}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. t. [See 3d {Char}.]
   1. To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] --Nores.
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            Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she
            had hanged her husband.               --Old Proverb.
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   2. To work or hew, as stone. --Oxf. Gloss.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. i.
   To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant;
   to do small jobs.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Char \Char\ (ch[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charred}
   (ch[aum]rd); 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.
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   2. To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Char \Char\, Charr \Charr\, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit.,
   red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red
   belly.] (Zool.)
   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.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Char \Char\, n. [F.]
   A car; a chariot. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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["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.]
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         When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave
         To play till doomsday.                   --Shak.
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from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

char
 /keir/, /char/, /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 (8 July 2008)

char

   <programming> /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)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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