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ALL meanings of char

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  • 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
  • verb char to do housework, cleaning, etc, as a job 3
  • verb transitive char to reduce to charcoal by burning 3
  • verb transitive char to burn slightly; scorch 3
  • noun char anything charred; esp., charcoal 3
  • abbreviation CHAR chare 3
  • noun char a charwoman 3
  • intransitive verb char to work as a charwoman 3
  • noun char any of a genus (Salvelinus) of trouts with small scales and a red belly 3
  • noun char tea (sense 3) 3
  • abbreviation CHAR character 3
  • abbreviation CHAR charter 3
  • verb with object char to do (housework, odd jobs, or chores); clean or repair. 1
  • verb without object char to work at housecleaning by the day or hour; hire oneself out to do odd jobs. 1
  • noun char René [ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1907–1988, French poet. 1
  • noun plural char any trout of the genus Salvelinus (or Cristovomer), especially the Arctic char. 1
  • noun Definition of char in Technology (programming)   /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ character. Especially used by C programmers, as "char" is C's typename for character data. 1
  • noun char Partially burn (an object) so as to blacken its surface. 1
  • transitive verb char cookery: scorch, sear 1
  • transitive verb char singe accidentally 1
  • noun char tea 1
  • noun char cleaning lady 1
  • noun char (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A time; a turn or occasion. 0
  • noun char (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A turn of work; a labour or item of business. 0
  • noun char An odd job, a chore or piece of housework. 0
  • noun char A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady. 0
  • noun char One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus. 0
  • noun char A charred substance. 0
  • noun char (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol), whose data size is commonly one or several bytes. 0
  • noun char (Britain) tea (drink). 0
  • verb char (Obsolete (No longer in use)) To turn, especially away or aside. 0
  • verb char To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant. 0
  • verb char (Obsolete (No longer in use)) To perform; to do; to finish. 0
  • verb char To work or hew (stone, etc.). 0
  • verb char (ergative) To burn something to charcoal. 0
  • verb char To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour. 0
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