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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]


  char
       
           /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ character.
          Especially used by C programmers, as "char" is C's
          typename for character data.
       
          [{Jargon File]
       
          (1994-11-29)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Char \Char\, n. [F.]
     A car; a chariot. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Char \Char\, n. [OE. cherr, char a turning, time, work, AS.
     cerr, cyrr, turn, occasion, business, fr. cerran, cyrran, to
     turn; akin to OS. k["e]rian, OHG. ch["e]ran, G. kehren. Cf.
     Chore, Ajar.]
     Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.
     [Written also chare.] [Eng.]
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           When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave
           To play till doomsday.                   --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Char \Char\, Charr \Charr\, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit.,
     red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red
     belly.] (Zo["o]l.)
     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. t. [See 3d Char.]
     1. To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] --Nores.
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              Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she
              had hanged her husband.               --Old Proverb.
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     2. To work or hew, as stone. --Oxf. Gloss.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. i.
     To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant;
     to do small jobs.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Char \Char\ (ch[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charred
     (ch[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Charring.] [Prob. the same
     word as char to perform (see Char, n.), the modern use
     coming from charcoal, prop. coal-turned, turned to coal.]
     1. To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce
        to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
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     2. To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.
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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : [ jargon ]


  char /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. Shorthand for `character'. Esp.
     used by C programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data.