Chark vs Char - What's the difference?
chark | char |
Charcoal; coke.
* 1719 , ,
A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire-drill.
* 1872 , Charles Hardwick, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-lore ,
(US, Alaska) A wine glass.
* 2006 , Phyllis Downing Carlson and Laurel Downing Bill, Aunt Phil's Trunk: Early Alaska ,
A variety of hunting bird.
* 1856 , Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon , 2nd Edition,
To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.
* 1749 , John Lowthorp, Royal Society of Great Britain, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the end of the year MDCC , 5th Edition,
* 1771 , John Whitaker, The History of Manchester , Volume 1,
(Scotland) To make a grating sound.
* 1820 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , Volume 7,
(obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
(obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
(obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
* 1893', She explained that she was the commissionaire's wife, who did the ' charing , and I gave her the order for the coffee. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’ (Norton 2005, p.677)
* 1897 , , chapter 2
(obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
* Old proverb
To work or hew (stone, etc.).
One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus .
(ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
A charred substance.
(computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol), whose data size is commonly one or several bytes.
* Java programming language tutorial [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/text/terminology.html]
* 1975 , Computerworld - 23 avr. 1975 - Page 21
* 1997 , Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals
* 1998 , John R Hubbard, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Fundamentals of Computing with C++
* 2000 , Ken Brownsey, The essence of data structures using C++
* 2002 , Nell B. Dale, Michael McMillan, Visual Basic .NET: a laboratory course - Page 25
(British) tea (drink)
As a noun chark
is charcoal; coke.As a verb chark
is to reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.As a proper noun char is
a nickname for charlotte.chark
English
Noun
(en noun)- ... so I contrived to burn some wood here, as I had seen done in England, under turf, till it became chark or dry coal ...
- The discoverer of the chark , or " fire-drill," an instrument for obtaining fire by artificial means, would be so great a benefactor to a people that had to suffer all the inconveniences resulting from occasional fireless hearths, that we may well understand why he may be invested by his astonished and delighted fellow-savages with miraculous or supernatural powers.
- At noon, each man got his half-chark (a wine glass) full of rum and a four-quart iron pot of fish soup made from salt salmon, potatoes and graham flour ... in the evening another half chark of rum and 20 cents as pay for the day's work.
- A good chark will sometimes take as many as eight or ten bustards or five or six gazelles in the course of a morning.
Verb
(en verb)- I have ?een Turf chark''d, and then it ?erves to work Iron, and, as I have been inform'd will ?erve to make it in a Bloomery or Iron-work. Turf ' chark' d I reckon the ?weete?t and whole?ome?t Fire that can be, fitter for a Chamber and con?umptive People, than either Wood, Stone-Coal or Charcoal.
- The method which the Romans now taught them of charking the coal continues e??entially the ?ame until the pre?ent moment.
- The hoarse charking conversation which they carried on was calculated to support the delusion.
char
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at chore, ajar.Alternative forms
* chareNoun
(en noun)- I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn't come.
Synonyms
* charlady * charwoman * cleaning lady * cleaning womanVerb
- 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.
- That char is chared , as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband.
- (Nares)
Etymology 2
Origin unknown, perhaps from Celtic.Alternative forms
* charrNoun
(en-noun)- “Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char .”
Etymology 3
Verb
(charr)Synonyms
* coal * blacken, scorch, sear, singeNoun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* charcoalEtymology 4
Abbreviation of (m).Noun
(en noun)- The unit is an 80-column, 30 char. /sec dot matrix printer which uses a 5 by 7 font.
- A Unicode code unit is a 16-bit char value. For example, imagine a String that contains the letters "abc" followed by the Deseret LONG I, which is represented with two char values. That string contains four characters, four code points, but five code units.
- 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.
- 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.