Usually means: Character data type in programming.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. char: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. char, char, char, char: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. char, char, char: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. char: Collins English Dictionary
  5. char: Vocabulary.com
  6. Char, char: Wordnik
  7. char: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Char, char: Wiktionary
  9. char: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. char: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. char: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Char, char, char: Dictionary.com
  13. char: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Char (disambiguation), Char (fish), Char (musician), Char (name), Char: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Char: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. char: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. char: Rhymezone
  18. Char: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. char: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. char: Free Dictionary
  21. char: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. char: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. char: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. char: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. char: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. char: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. char: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Char: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. char, char, char: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. char: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Char, char, the char: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See charing as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ergative) To burn something to charcoal; to be burnt to charcoal.
verb:  (transitive) To burn (something) severely, so as to blacken it.
verb:  (transitive) To burn (something) slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
noun:  A charred substance.
noun:  Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
noun:  (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
noun:  (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
noun:  An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
noun:  A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
verb:  (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
verb:  To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
verb:  (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
verb:  To work or hew (stone, etc.)
noun:  (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
noun:  A character (being involved in the action of a story).
noun:  A nickname for Charlotte
noun:  A nickname for Charlene
noun:  (British) Alternative form of cha (“tea”) [tea, sometimes (dialect) specifically masala chai]

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