Only vs Charm - What's the difference?
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Alone in a category.
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* (William Shakespeare)
Without sibling; without a sibling of the same gender.
* 1949 , and (Ernestine Gilbreth Carey), (Cheaper by the Dozen) , dedication:
(label) Mere.
* , I.40:
Without others or anything further; exclusively.
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, title= No more than; just.
* 1949 , Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, (Cheaper by the Dozen) , dedication:
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, title= As recently as.
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, title= (obsolete) Above all others; particularly.
* Marston
Under the condition that; but.
However.
But for the fact that; except.
(rare) only child
* 2013 , Sybil L. Hart, ?Maria Legerstee, Handbook of Jealousy
An object, act or words believed to have magic power.
The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
* Alexander Pope
* Milton
(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.
To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
* (John Milton)
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, 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)
To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
* (Edmund Spenser)
To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
* (Alexander Pope)
The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book IV:
* Spenser
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p. 152:
A flock, group (especially of finches).
As nouns the difference between only and charm
is that only is (rare) only child while 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.As an adjective only
is alone in a category.As an adverb only
is without others or anything further; exclusively.As a conjunction only
is under the condition that; but.As a verb charm is
to seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.only
English
Alternative forms
* onely (obsolete)Adjective
(-)Nick Miroff
Mexico gets a taste for eating insects, passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.}}
- Motley's the only wear.
- To DAD ¶ who only reared twelve children ¶ and ¶ To MOTHER ¶ who reared twelve only children
- I know some who wittingly have drawne both profit and preferment from cuckoldrie, the only name whereof is so yrksome and bail-ful to so many men.
Synonyms
* (alone in a category) sole, lone * (singularly superior) peerless, unequaled, nonpareilDerived terms
* if any * if only * one and only * only child * only game in town * only ifAdverb
(-)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
- To DAD
- who only reared twelve children
- and
- To MOTHER
- who reared twelve only children
citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
- his most only elected mistress
Derived terms
* if and only if * only ifConjunction
(English Conjunctions)Statistics
*Noun
(onlies)- The consistent finding that infants who are onlies do not differ from those who have siblings despite their lesser history of exposure to differential treatment is perplexing.
charm
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) charme'' (chant, magic spell), from (etyl) ''carmen (song, incantation)Noun
(en noun)- a charm against evil
- It works like a charm .
- He had great personal charm .
- She tried to win him over with her charms .
- Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- the charm of beauty's powerful glance
- 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, ornamentAntonyms
* (quality of arousing delight or admiration ): boredom, drynessSee also
* quarkVerb
(en verb)- They, on their mirth and dance / Intent, with jocund music charm his ear.
- No witchcraft charm thee!
- I, in my own woe charmed , / Could not find death.
- Here we our slender pipes may safely charm .
- Music the fiercest grief can charm .
Synonyms
* (seduce, entrance or fascinate ): delight, enchant, entrance, win one over * (use magic ): bewitch, enchant, ensorcel, enspellDerived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
Variant of (chirm), from (etyl) chirme, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, / With charm of earliest Birds
- free liberty to chant our charms at will
- The laughter rose like the charm of starlings.