char

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Etymology 1 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.3.2 Verb 1.4 Etymology 2 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Translations 1.5 Etymology 3 1.5.1 Verb 1.5.1.1 Synonyms 1.5.1.2 Translations 1.5.2 Noun 1.5.2.1 Synonyms 1.5.2.2 Translations 1.6 Etymology 4 1.6.1 Noun 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 3 Irish 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Particle 3.2.1 Usage notes 3.2.2 Related terms 3.2.3 Synonyms 4 Romani 4.1 Noun 5 Romansch 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Adjective

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• charr

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)

[edit] Etymology 1

Middle English cherre (odd job) < Old English ċierr (turn, occasion, business) from ċierran (“‘to turn’”) from Proto-Germanic *kar(r)-, karz- (“‘to turn’”) from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“‘to bend, turn’”). Akin to Old Saxon kērian, Old High German chēran (“‘to turn’”) (German kehren). Cf Sanskrit "char" (to do), "kri" (to do), "kar" (to perform), and Persian کار (kar, work). More at chore, ajar

[edit] Noun

char (plural chars)

1. (obsolete) a time; a turn or occasion
2. (obsolete) a turn of work; a labour or item of business
3. an odd job, a chore or piece of housework
4. a charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady

   “I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn’t come”

[edit] Synonyms

• charlady
• charwoman
• cleaning lady
• cleaning woman

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[edit] Verb

to char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charring, simple past and past participle charred)

1. (obsolete) to turn, especially away or aside.
2. to work, especially to do housework.

   • 1893, She explained that she was the commissionaire's wife, who did the charing, and I gave her the order for the coffee. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’ (Norton 2005, p.677)

[edit] Etymology 2

Origin unknown, perhaps from Celtic.

[edit] Noun

char (plural chars or char)

1. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus or the brook trout. Scientific name: Salvelinus fontinalis.

   “Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char.”

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[edit] Etymology 3

Back-formation from charcoal.

[edit] Verb

to char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charring, simple past and past participle charred)

1. (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
2. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.

[edit] Synonyms

• coal
• blacken, scorch, sear, singe

[edit] Translations

[edit] Noun

char (plural chars or char)

1. A charred substance

[edit] Synonyms

• charcoal

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[edit] Etymology 4

character

[edit] Noun

char (plural chars)

1. (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
   • 1997, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals

     Chars can be considered as integers if need be without an explicit cast.

   • 1998, John R Hubbard, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Fundamentals of Computing with C++

     Then since each char occupies one byte, these four bytes represent the three letters 'B', 'y', 'e', and the null character NUL.

   • 2000, Ken Brownsey, The essence of data structures using C++

     Thus string variables are pointer variables to chars.

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

Latin carrus, a loan from Transalpine Gaulish.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃaʁ/
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[edit] Noun

char m. (plural chars)

1. chariot
2. (military) tank
3. (Canadian) car (US), auto (UK)

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [xaɾˠ]

[edit] Particle

char (negative)

1. not

[edit] Usage notes

Used only in some varieties of Ulster Irish. Used only with the past tense of regular verbs and some irregular verbs. Triggers lenition of the following verb.

• char dhún mé é – "I did not close it"
• char chuala mé é – "I did not hear it"

[edit] Related terms

• cha (used before other tenses)

[edit] Synonyms

• níor (used in Munster Irish, Connacht Irish, and some varieties of Ulster Irish)

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[edit] Romani

[edit] Noun

char f. (plural chara)

1. grass
2. field

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[edit] Romansch

[edit] Etymology

Latin carus

[edit] Adjective

char

1. dear