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charm | jynx |

As nouns the difference between charm and jynx

is that charm is an object, act or words believed to have magic power or charm can be the mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children while jynx is a bird, the '' or ''(l) ).

As a verb charm

is to seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.

charm

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) charme'' (chant, magic spell), from (etyl) ''carmen (song, incantation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An object, act or words believed to have magic power.
    • a charm against evil
    It works like a charm .
  • The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
    • He had great personal charm .
    She tried to win him over with her charms .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
  • * Milton
    • the charm of beauty's powerful glance
  • (physics) A quantum number of hadrons]] determined by the quantity of [[charm quark, charm quarks & antiquarks.
  • A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
    • She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist.
    Synonyms
    * (something with magic power ): amulet, incantation, spell, talisman * (quality of arousing delight or admiration ): appeal, attraction, charisma * (trinket ): amulet, dangle, ornament
    Antonyms
    * (quality of arousing delight or admiration ): boredom, dryness
    See also
    * quark

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
  • * (John Milton)
    • They, on their mirth and dance / Intent, with jocund music charm his ear.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
  • To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • No witchcraft charm thee!
  • To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • I, in my own woe charmed , / Could not find death.
  • (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
  • * (Edmund Spenser)
    • Here we our slender pipes may safely charm .
  • To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • Music the fiercest grief can charm .
    Synonyms
    * (seduce, entrance or fascinate ): delight, enchant, entrance, win one over * (use magic ): bewitch, enchant, ensorcel, enspell

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Variant of (chirm), from (etyl) chirme, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
  • * 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book IV:
    • Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, / With charm of earliest Birds
  • * Spenser
    • free liberty to chant our charms at will
  • * 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p. 152:
    • The laughter rose like the charm of starlings.
  • A flock, group (especially of finches).

    • Anagrams

    * English collective nouns ----

    jynx

    English

    Alternative forms

    * *

    Noun

    (jynges)
  • A bird, the '' or ''(l) ).
  • * 1649 , George Daniel, Trinarchodia: Henry V , line ccxcv:
    • Where not a Silver Iyng , or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman.
  • * 1706 , John Kersey (editor), Phillips’s New World of Words , “Jynx”:
    • Jynx , the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail.
  • * 1708 , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London XXVI, page 123:
    • The Jynx or Wryneck…I first heard this year on March 29.
  • * 1845 , The Zoologist: A Miscellany of Natural History III, page 1,107:
    • Its sharp and harsh cry, resembling a repetition of Jynx', '''Jynx''', ' Jynx .
  • * 1857 , Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery (1858), volume I, page 297:
    • A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx , in their hands.
  • (label) A a jinx (quod vide).
  • * ante'' 1693 , Sir Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais (author), ''The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais , chapter i, page 23:
    • These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges , Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz ], Baits, and Enticements of Love.
  • The name of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “” philosophy.
  • * 1655 , Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy (1701), page 17/2:
    • Then is the Intelligible Jynx'; next which are the Synoches, the Empyreal, the Ætherial and the Material; after the Synoches are the Teletarchs…Intelligent ' Jynges do themselves also understand from the Father By unspeakable Counsels being moved so as to understand.

    Derived terms

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    Related terms

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    References

    * V (H–K; 1st ed., 1901), § 3 (J), page 646/3, “ Jynx”