(n.) Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.
(v. t.) Alt. of Chare
(v. i.) Alt. of Chare
(n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
(n.) To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Angioscopy provided cross-sectional topographic views of thrombosed lumen and showed charring and shrinkage of thrombus following laser angioplasty.
(2) After spraying the plates with phosphoric acid and heating, the amount of carbon from the charred compounds is measured densitometrically.
(3) The frontal cortex, hippocampus, and basal ganglia were dissected at -15 degrees C. The lipids were separated by column and high-performance thin-layer chromatography and quantified by charring and densitometry.
(4) The body of one of the men was reportedly found charred and lying on a cot.
(5) It posted photos on its website of what it said was Thargyal's charred body covered in ceremonial yellow silk scarves and hundreds of people marching up a hill to a cremation site where his remains were burned.
(6) The activity of germination factor was resistant to boiling, but was lost on charring and dialysis.
(7) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
(8) When the RF probe approached perpendicularly to the cadaver arterial wall, a crater with charring and coagulating necrosis was formed.
(9) The buzz won Charli a deal with Asylum, a subsidiary of major label Atlantic, but she didn't release another thing until 2011.
(10) The percent reductions were 61 in one rabbit fed cholestyramine, 61 and 67 in two rabbits fed 1% Super Char, and 90 in one rabbit fed 2% Super Char.
(11) Wounds in group CS were "sterilized" (0.5-mm spot size, 25 W, CW) by gently heating the wound without causing blanching or charring.
(12) Histologic examination confirmed that this thrombogenicity was associated with greater charring and coagulation necrosis of the media.
(13) Charly Rexach played for Barcelona between 1965 and 1981 and talks about winning the cup, "their cup", as a way of "really pissing [Real Madrid] off."
(14) We investigated the capacity of bone char to remove fluoride from water and its effects on selected bio-indicator organisms.
(15) The charred surface of fish and beef showed strong mutagenic activity in Salmonella typhimurium test strains when activated by S-9 mix of rat liver.
(16) Lased root surfaces revealed craters with a superficial charred layer closely associated with new cementum-like matrix.
(17) The pH of distilled water following contact with bone char rose to 11.5 for white bone-char, 8.3 for grey bone-char, and 7.8 for black bone-char.
(18) Estrogen-binding activity was investigated in liver nuclear and cytosolic preparations of sexually mature female brook char, Salvelinus fontinalis.
(19) Grilled onion salad with pomegranates Serves 4 1kg new season's onions with tops on (or red and spring onions), roots trimmed and washed 1 large pomegranate, or 100g picked pomegranate seeds 1 tbs finely chopped fresh mint For the dressing: 1 large pomegranate, or 100g picked pomegranate seeds 1 small garlic clove, crushed to a paste with salt 6 tbs extra virgin olive oil sea salt and black pepper Place the onions whole over a hot barbecue, directly on the naked flame of a gas hob or under the grill until the skin is charred and crispy all over and the flesh is very soft, for about 15-40 minutes depending on the size of the onions.
(20) Basically, our welfare state has created a beautiful society but we need to keep it that way.” Over a drink in Charly’s, Lone Lincoln Steffensen, the DPP’s regional vice-president, repeats the sentiments of Ragna from Västerås.
Chav
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Starkey was in a heated discussion with Owen Jones, author of Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class, when he made his remarks during a discussion hosted by Emily Maitlis that also included the writer Dreda Say Mitchell.
(2) "What has happened is that the substantial section of the chavs that you wrote about have become black.
(3) A classic example, she believes, is Little Britain, in which David Walliams blacked up to play the character of Desiree, an obese black woman, and in which so-called "chavs" are ridiculed.
(4) But the one that really jumped out was of a chav-themed school disco: all these rosy-cheeked, foppish-looking public schoolkids dressed in baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits.
(5) Johnson tells the Radio Times that she didn't know that fat people ("classic chavs") could be hungry, until she saw their empty cupboards and their food budget (£3 a day for three people), and what it could and could not buy.
(6) I love her twice as hard for depriving a certain type of viewer of the chaotic chavs-on-tour spectacle they might have been expecting by taking entirely normal holidays and considering sound financial options.
(7) Discussion of the moral deficiency of benefit claimants has long been a substitute for political and economic debate, asylum-seeker is a dirty word, and "chav" is a word that no one wants applied to them.
(8) Jones's Chavs, Andy Merrifield's Magical Marxism, Laurie Penny's collection of her writing Penny Red and Nicholas Shaxson's exposé of tax havens Treasure Islands complete the lineup.
(9) Unusually for the comedy chav character – sadly every soap has one – Beth has been furnished with the requisite parenting skills to clock when something's up with her Craigy.
(10) The headline inside was "Future Bling of England"; the strapline screamed, "Wills wears Chav Gear in Army Snap."
(11) The shortlist Counterpower: Making Change Happen by Tim Gee Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It edited by Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination by Andy Merrifield Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent by Laurie Penny Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
(12) Class hatred has been siphoned off on to chavs, scroungers, benefit fraudsters, single mothers, all the new untouchables, so that the architects of austerity can justify their cruelty.
(13) It hardly ever has a scandal – the biggest was when a group of 12-year-olds got drunk on vodka – and it is reputed, probably wrongly, to have originated "chav" as a snooty term for the less eligible young men of the town ("Cheltenham average").
(14) And in popular culture, stereotypes that had been given new life in the 1980s eventually went nuclear: the mid-to-late New Labour period, let us not forget, was the era of Little Britain’s council-estate grotesque Vicky Pollard , the hairstyle maligned as the council-house facelift, and the bundling-up of council housing in the same dread category as “chavs” and welfare scroungers.
(15) Over two pages built around a snap of 30 trainee officers at Sandhurst, yesterday's Sun gleefully recounted how the heir to the throne "joined in the fun as his platoon donned chav-themed fancy dress to mark the completion of their first term".
(16) The “mix”, even when it happened, was a mix of the mutually hostile – search for the Greenwich Millennium Village online, to find a host of complaints by rich residents at the fact that sundry “chavs” and “scum” have ended up residing in their stunning luxury living solution.
(17) Now the people that bug me every day are cab drivers and chavs.
(18) His perusal of the entertainment currently offered to undergraduates has only confirmed that the so-called "chav bop" - a disco where you dress up as a working-class person - is an immovable fixture not only at public schools, but also throughout Oxford's colleges.
(19) They want us looking suspiciously and disdainfully in the direction of marginalised individuals; "chavs", "immigrants" and "gays," not in the direction of the institutions who actually damage our society – banks, corporations and the media.
(20) They want to see the back of these TV chavs so they can be left with their Poliakoff and their Potter (as well as their Big Brothers and Embarrassing Illnesses and all their "TV heaven", slumming it choices, obviously) and be served a TV which is essentially much more ... them.