char

1. (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.obsolete

2. (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.obsolete

1. (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.obsolete

2. (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.Examples: "All's chared when he is gone."obsolete

1. (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).Examples: "The unit is an 80-column, 30 char. /sec dot matrix printer which uses a 5 by 7 font."; "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."

2. (colloquial) A character (being involved in the action of a story).Examples: "In fact, when I somewhat lack inspiration, I tend to convert my characters according to the rules of a game which universe is close enough (I did it for some of the chars in my WIP, taking the Cyberpunk 2020 rulebook)."; "WoW exp I feel that it is just a progress from Lv70 to 80 and then back to square one to raid\arena or die expansion. So I don’t see the point of going back just to level my char to 80 and let them idle at end-game."; "The class (an adventuring style (e.g. mage, warrior, hunter, etc.) of the character, which determines abilities, weapons, etc.) choice often also influences the gaming and language of a character during role-playing. As one of the participants states: / Character bound politeness is part of some of my chars – as well as impoliteness is. An example: A Paladin or Priest has to be polite in RPG according to his profession to the light, a Warlock is the opposite as well as rogues etc."colloquial

1. (British) Alternative form of cha (“tea”).Britishalt-ofalternativeuncountable