Char



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.烧焦;使...燃烧成焦炭
• ［英］ v.烧焦 ( make or become black by burning)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun also charr (plural char or chars; also charr or charrs)

• Etymology: origin unknown
• Date: 1662
• any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots

II. verb (charred; charring)

• Etymology: charcoal
• Date: 1679
• transitive verb
  • 1. to convert to charcoal or carbon usually by heat ; burn
  • 2. to burn slightly or partly ; scorch <the fire charred the beams
• intransitive verb
  • to become charred

III. noun

• Date: 1879
• a charred substance ; charcoal; specifically a combustible residue remaining after the destructive distillation of coal

IV. intransitive verb (charred; charring)

• Etymology: charwoman
• Date: 1732
• to work as a cleaning woman

V. noun

• Etymology: by shortening
• Date: 1906
• British charwoman

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