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  1. transitive verb To burn the surface of; scorch.
  2. transitive verb To reduce to carbon or charcoal by incomplete combustion.
  3. intransitive verb To become scorched.
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  • DataSet [row - 1] = (char *) malloc (sizeof (char) * col * 6); —  LinuxQuestions.org
  • I thought that NumGet would be wrong to use on the char*. —  AutoHotkey Community
  • The signatures that can end up with char** and & dereferences throughout the code might be unsightly to some, but they are quite useful. —  Hottest News Articles
  • Watches are added with the inotify_add_watch () system call: int inotify_add_watch (int fd, const char * path, __u32 mask); —  Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
  • / * INTEGER COLUMN (bufferlength) * / bind [3]. buffer_type = MYSQL_TYPE_LONG; bind [3]. buffer = (char *) & bufferlength; bind [3]. is_null = 0; bind [3]. length = 0;
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scorch ·  sodden ·  jagged ·  crumple ·  rotten ·  mangle ·  brittle ·  lifeless ·  dusty ·  burnt-out ·  shapeless ·  greasy

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char:   charred
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Etymologies (10)

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  1. Back-formation from charcoal.
  2. Origin unknown.
  3. Middle English, a piece of work, from Old English cierr, a turning.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (7)

  1. Due to char- in charcoal, rather than to char, Middle English charren, turn, return, which does not occur in Middle English in a sense connected with that of char. See chark and charcoal.
  2. See char, v., and charcoal.
  3. Origin uncertain; perhaps a particular use of char or char.
  4. Formerly also written charr, chare, from Gaelic ceara = Irish “cear, red, blood-colored; cf. Gaelic and Irish cear, blood. The W. name is torgoch, literally red-bellied, from tor, belly, + coch, red.
  5. Short for achar for ajar: see ajar.
  6. apparently a particular use of French char, a car, wagon.
  7. East Indian
 

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