charとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• chewre (廃れた用法)

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː/ or IPA^(key): [t͡ʃaː]
• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹ/, [t͡ʃɑɹ], [t͡ʃɑ˞] or IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaɹ/, [t͡ʃaɹ], [t͡ʃa˞]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

動詞

char (三人称単数 現在形 chars, 現在分詞 charring, 過去形および過去分詞形 charred)

1. (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
2. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.

同意語

• coal
• blacken, scorch, sear, singe

名詞

char (複数形 chars または char)

1. A charred substance.

同意語

• charcoal

語源 2

Unknown, perhaps from Celtic, such as Irish ceara (“fiery red”) (found in personal names). Or, perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German schar (“flounder, dab”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz, related to *skeraną (“to cut”), referring to its shape. If so, related to shard.^[1]

別の表記

• charr

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː/
• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹ/, [t͡ʃɑɹ], [t͡ʃɑ˞]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

名詞

char (複数形 chars または char)

1. Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.

   Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char.

派生語

語源 3

From Middle English cherre (“odd job”), from 古期英語 ċierr (“a turn, change, time, occasion, affair, business”), from ċierran (“to turn, change, turn oneself, go, come, proceed, turn back, return, regard, translate, persuade, convert, be converted, agree to, submit, make to submit, reduce”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).

Cognate with Dutch keer (“a time, turn, occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn, bight, bend”) and kehren (“to sweep”) or umkehren (“to return または reverse”), Greek γύρος (gýros, “a bout, whirl”), gyre. More at chore, ajar.

別の表記

• chare

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː/
• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹ/, [t͡ʃɑɹ], [t͡ʃɑ˞]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

名詞

char (複数形 chars)

2. (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
3. (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
5. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     When thou hast done this chare, I’ll give thee leave to play till doomsday.

6. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.

   I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn't come.

   • 1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 163:

     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.

同意語

• charlady
• charwoman
• cleaning lady
• cleaning woman

関連する語

• chore

動詞

char (三人称単数 現在形 chars, 現在分詞 charing または charring, 過去形および過去分詞形 chared または charred)

1. (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
2. To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
   • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Naval Treaty" (Norton 2005, p.677)

     She explained that she was the commissionaire's wife, who did the charing, and I gave her the order for the coffee.

   • 1897, W. Somerset Maugham, Lisa of Lambeth, chapter 2

     Her husband had been a soldier, and from a grateful country she received a pension large enough to keep her from starvation, and by charring and doing such odd jobs as she could get she earned a little extra to supply herself with liquor.

3. (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
   • 1613–1614, William Shakespeare; John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii:

     All's chared when he is gone.

4. To work or hew (stone, etc.)^[2]

語源 4

Abbreviation of character, used as the name of a data type in some programming languages, including notably C.

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ/, /t͡ʃɑː/, /kɛə/, /kɑː/
• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹ/, /kɛɹ/, /kɑɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

名詞

char (複数形 chars)

1. (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter または symbol).
   • 1975, Computerworld - 23 April 1975 - Page 21

     The unit is an 80-column, 30 char. /sec dot matrix printer which uses a 5 by 7 font.

   • 1997, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals

     Chars can be considered as integers if need be without an explicit cast.

   • 1998, John R Hubbard, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Fundamentals of Computing with C++

     Then since each char occupies one byte, these four bytes represent the three letters 'B', 'y', 'e', and the null character NUL.

   • 2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C#

     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.

   • 2000, Ken Brownsey, The essence of data structures using C++:

     Thus string variables are pointer variables to chars.

   • 2002, Nell B. Dale, Michael McMillan, Visual Basic .NET: a laboratory course - Page 25

     .NET uses the Unicode character set in which each char constant or variable takes up two bytes (16 bits) of storage.

等位語

• byte
• double
• float
• int
• long
• short

派生語

• signed char
• unsigned char

関連する語

• charset
• charstring

語源 5

Non-rhotic spelling of cha.

名詞

char (uncountable)

1. (Britain) Alternative form of cha (tea)

参考

参照

アナグラム

• -arch, ARCH, Arch, Rach, arch, arch-, arch., rach

参照

• “Char.” on page 1,707/1 of Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français (1934)

  Char. = Flavius Sosipater Charisius, grammairien, venu d’Afrique en 358 à Constantinople [Gram. Lat., éd. Keil, t. 1].

• “Char. Dig.” on page 1,707/1 of Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français (1934)

  Char. Dig. = Aurelius Arcadius Charisius, jurisconsulte; dans le Dig.

• “Char.” on page xi of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

  Char. p. 532K … Flauius Sosipater Charisius … Ars Grammatica … iv A.D. … Barwick T. 1925