Char

  1. Proper noun.  A nickname for Charlotte.
  2. Noun.  (obsolete) a time; a turn or occasion.
  3. Noun.  (obsolete) a turn of work; a labour or item of business.
  4. Noun.  an odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
  5. Noun.  a charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
  6. Verb.  (obsolete) to turn, especially away or aside.
  7. Verb.  to work, especially to do housework.
  8. Noun.  One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus or the brook trout. Scientific name: Salvelinus fontinalis.
  9. Verb.  (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
  10. Verb.  To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
  11. Noun.  A charred substance.
  12. Noun.  (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol), whose data size is commonly one byte.
  13. Noun.  (UK, Commonwealth) tea (drink).

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