char

Definition of Char in English :

Noun

1. char

a charred substance

2. char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, woman

a human female employed to do housework

Example Sentences:
'the char will clean the carpet'
'I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write'

3. char, charr

any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus

charr

Verb

4. char, coal

burn to charcoal

Example Sentences:
'Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything'

coal

5. blacken, char, scorch, sear

burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color

Example Sentences:
'The cook blackened the chicken breast'
'The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece'
'the flames scorched the ceiling'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Char

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verbWord forms: chars, charring or charred

to burn or be burned partially, esp so as to blacken the surface; scorch

2. (transitive)

to reduce (wood) to charcoal by partial combustion

nounWord forms: plural char, chars, charr or charrs

any of various troutlike fishes of the genus Salvelinus, esp S. alpinus, occurring in cold lakes and northern seas: family Salmonidae (salmon)

noun British informal

1. short for charwoman

verbWord forms: chars, charring or charred

to do housework, cleaning, etc, as a job

noun

British a slang word for tea

Char

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verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: charred or ˈcharring

to reduce to charcoal by burning

to burn slightly; scorch

noun

anything charred; esp., charcoal

noun

chare

2. British, Informal

a charwoman

verb intransitiveWord forms: charred or ˈcharring

3. Chiefly British, Informal

to work as a charwoman

nounWord forms: plural chars or char

any of a genus (Salvelinus) of trouts with small scales and a red belly

noun

British, Slang

tea (sense 3)

character

charter

Char

see synonyms of char

v. charred, char·ring, chars

v.tr.

1. To burn the surface of; scorch.

2. To reduce to carbon or charcoal by incomplete combustion. See Synonyms at burn¹.

v.intr.

1. To become scorched.

2. To become reduced to carbon or charcoal.

A substance that has been scorched, burned, or reduced to charcoal.

n. pl. char or chars also charr or charrs

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.

A charwoman.

intr.v. charred, char·ring, chars

To work as a charwoman.

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