Char

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  • intransitive verb. To burn the surface of; scorch.
  • intransitive verb. To reduce to carbon or charcoal by incomplete combustion. synonym: burn.
  • intransitive verb. To become scorched.
  • intransitive verb. To become reduced to carbon or charcoal.
  • noun. A substance that has been scorched, burned, or reduced to charcoal.
  • noun. A charwoman.
  • intransitive verb. To work as a charwoman.
  • noun. Any of several salmonid fishes of the genus Salvelinus, usually having a dark body with light spots, and including the arctic char, the brook trout, and the lake trout.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A car; a chariot.
  • To scorch; burn; ‘singe’ (liquids): as, to char the wort in brewing.
  • To become charcoal.
  • noun. In sugar manufacturing, concentrated sweet water or liquor highly charged with dissolved sugar.
  • noun. A fish of the family Salmonidæ and genus Salvelinus.
  • Ajar.
  • noun. A turn.
  • noun. A particular time.
  • noun. A motion; an act.
  • noun. A particular thing to do; a single piece of work; a job; in the plural, miscellaneous jobs; work done by the day. See chore.
  • To burn or reduce to charcoal.
  • To burn the surface of more or less: as, to char the inside of a barrel (a process regularly employed for some purposes); the timbers were badly charred.
  • noun. An old wine-measure. In Geneva it was about 145 United States gallons.
  • To turn; give another direction to.
  • To lead or drive.
  • To stop or turn back: in this sense only chare.
  • To separate (chaff) from the grain: in this sense only chare.
  • To do; perform; execute.
  • To turn; return.
  • To go; wend.
  • To work in the house of another by the day; do chares or chores; do small jobs.
  • In building, to hew; work, as stone.
  • noun. Charcoal.
  • noun. An island or sandbank formed in a stream.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.
  • intransitive verb. To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.
  • transitive verb. To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
  • transitive verb. To burn slightly or partially.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A car; a chariot.
  • transitive verb. To perform; to do; to finish.
  • transitive verb. To work or hew, as stone.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A time; a turn or occasion.
  • noun. A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
  • noun. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
  • noun. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
  • verb. To turn, especially away or aside.
  • verb. To work, especially to do housework.
  • verb. To burn something to charcoal.
  • verb. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
  • noun. A charred substance.
  • noun. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus or the brook trout.
  • cross-reference
    Equivalent
    chare  charr  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    burn  cleaner  combust  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adar  Aer  Afar  Ajar  Ar  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bare  brittle  burnt-out  crumple  dusty  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    blacken  blaze  blister  brand  burn  
    variant
    chare  charred  charring  
    verb-form
    charred  charring  chars