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Meaning of Char | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
t͡ʃɑː

Definitions

  1. A nickname for Charlotte
  2. A charred substance.
  3. Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
  4. A time; a turn or occasion.
    obsolete
  5. A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
  6. A nickname for Charlene
  7. A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
    obsolete
  8. A character (being involved in the action of a story).
    colloquial
  9. A short river in west Dorset, England; in full, the River Char.
  10. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
  11. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.

Equivalents

Examples

“Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char.”
“When thou hast done this chare, I’ll give thee leave to play till doomsday.”
“I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn't come.”
“But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage. “Nobody here yet, Miss,” said the char.”
“The rollers wore grooves in the nursery floors and the chars complained of getting splinters in their hands while scrubbing.”
“The unit is an 80-column, 30 char. /sec dot matrix printer which uses a 5 by 7 font.”
“Chars can be considered as integers if need be without an explicit cast.”
“Then since each char occupies one byte, these four bytes represent the three letters 'B', 'y', 'e', and the null character NUL.”
“When a 32-bit int value is stored to a 16-bit char variable, information can be lost if the 16 most significant bits are not zeroes in the int value.”
“Thus string variables are pointer variables to chars.”
“.NET uses the Unicode character set in which each char constant or variable takes up two bytes (16 bits) of storage.”
“In fact, when I somewhat lack inspiration, I tend to convert my characters according to the rules of a game which universe is close enough (I did it for some of the chars in my WIP, taking the Cyberpunk 2020 rulebook).”
“WoW exp I feel that it is just a progress from Lv70 to 80 and then back to square one to raid\arena or die expansion. So I don’t see the point of going back just to level my char to 80 and let them idle at end-game.”
“The class (an adventuring style (e.g. mage, warrior, hunter, etc.) of the character, which determines abilities, weapons, etc.) choice often also influences the gaming and language of a character during role-playing. As one of the participants states: / Character bound politeness is part of some of my chars – as well as impoliteness is. An example: A Paladin or Priest has to be polite in RPG according to his profession to the light, a Warlock is the opposite as well as rogues etc.”
““’Ullo, cock,” it said, amiably enough. “So you’ve come to, ’ave yer? ’Ang on a bit, an’ I’ll get you a cup o’ char.” And it vanished again.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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