| NOUN | substance | char | a charred substance |
|---|---|---|---|
| person | char, charwoman, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman | a human female employed to do housework | |
| animal | char, charr | any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus | |
| VERB | weather | char, coal | burn to charcoal |
| change | char, blacken, sear, scorch | burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color / color |
| Sounds | chaa'r | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | Adar ... Zanzibar: 81 rhymes with aar... | |
| Meaning | A charred substance. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | bone black, bone char, animal black, animal charcoal | black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone |
| snuff | The charred portion of a candlewick | |
| Broader | carbon, C, atomic number 6 | An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms |
| Verbs | char | burn to charcoal |
| Meaning | A human female employed to do housework. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the char will clean the carpet" | |
| Synonyms | charwoman, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman | |
| Broader | cleaner | someone whose occupation is cleaning |
| Spanish | limpiadora, mujer de la limpieza | |
| Catalan | dona de fer feines, dona de la neteja | |
| Meaning | Any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | charr | |
| Member of | Salvelinus, genus Salvelinus | brook trout |
| Narrower | Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus | small trout of northern waters |
| Broader | salmonid | soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters |
| Meaning | Burn to charcoal. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" | |
| Synonym | coal | |
| Broader | burn, combust | Cause to burn or combust |
| Spanish | achicharrarse, carbonizar, requemarse | |
| Catalan | carbonitzar, recremar, socarrar-se | |
| Nouns | char | a charred substance |
| Meaning | Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color / color. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece" | |
| Synonyms | blacken, sear, scorch | |
| Category | cooking, cookery, preparation | The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat |
| Narrower | singe, swinge | Burn superficially or lightly |
| Broader | burn | Burn with heat, fire, or radiation |
| Spanish | achicharrar, carbonizar, chamuscar, requemar | |
| Catalan | abrusar, bleir, carbonitzar, recremar | |
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