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char

char
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [chahr]
    • /tʃɑr/
    • /tʃɑːr/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [chahr]
    • /tʃɑr/

Definitions of char word

  • verb char If food chars or if you char it, it burns slightly and turns black as it is cooking. 3
  • verb char If a woman chars for someone, she works as their cleaner. 3
  • uncountable noun char Tea that you drink can be referred to as char. 3
  • verb char to burn or be burned partially, esp so as to blacken the surface; scorch 3
  • verb char to reduce (wood) to charcoal by partial combustion 3
  • noun char any of various troutlike fishes of the genus Salvelinus, esp S. alpinus, occurring in cold lakes and northern seas: family Salmonidae (salmon) 3

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Origin of char

First appearance:

before 1670
One of the 47% oldest English words
1670-80; apparently extracted from charcoal; see chark

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Char

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

char popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

char usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for char

verb char

  • burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
  • cauterize — If a doctor cauterizes a wound, he or she burns it with heat or with a chemical in order to close it up and prevent it from becoming infected.
  • singe — to burn superficially or slightly; scorch.
  • carbonize — to turn or be turned into carbon as a result of heating, fossilization, chemical treatment, etc
  • scorch — to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly: The collar of the shirt was yellow where the iron had scorched it.

noun char

  • coal — Coal is a hard black substance that is extracted from the ground and burned as fuel.
  • cleaner — A cleaner is someone who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building.
  • culm — coal-mine waste
  • scoria — Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
  • anthracite — Anthracite is a type of very hard coal which burns slowly, producing a lot of heat and very little smoke.

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