Curry vs Char - What's the difference?
curry | char |
One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.
A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.
Curry powder
To cook or season with curry powder.
(label) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
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, title= (label) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
(label) To beat, thrash; to drub.
* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by , part 1,
(label) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
(computing) To perform currying upon.
(obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily.
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(obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
* 1608 , George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron 2.245
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
(obsolete) To hurry.
* 1676 , Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke 34
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(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 proper nouns the difference between curry and char
is that curry is a family name of irish origin, from while char is a nickname for charlotte.curry
English
(wikipedia curry)Etymology 1
1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English(Hannah Glasse), Glasse’s , 1747), from (etyl) . Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook (Forme of Cury) (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of (Richard II of England).Noun
(curries)Synonyms
* (dish) Ruby Murray (rhyming slang) * (curry powder) curry powderDerived terms
* curry leaf * curry paste * curry powder * currywurst * give someone currySee also
* piccalilli (Related Indian dishes) * balti * bhaji * bhuna * biryani * chilli * chutney * dhansak * dopiaza * garam masala * herb * jalfresi * karahi * korma * madras * makhani, makhonee * moghlai * naan * pakora * papadum, poppadum * paratha * pasanda * phall * roghan josh * samosa * spice * tandoor * tandoori * tikka masala * vindalooVerb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) currayen, from (etyl) correer 'to prepare', presumably from Vulgar (etyl) conredare, from com- (a form of con- 'together') + some Germanic base verbVerb
- Your short horse is soon curried .
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- I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely.
- By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.
Usage notes
The sense "To win or gain favour" is most frequently used in the phrases "to curry favour (with)" and "to curry [someone's] favour",Derived terms
* curry favorEtymology 3
From , a computer scientistVerb
Etymology 4
Possibly derived from currier , a common 16-18th century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.Verb
- I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.
- All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.
- A sermon is soon curryed over.
References
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.