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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: character - charbroiled</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="character"> character, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. all qualities or features of anything; kind; sort; nature. Ex. The soil on the prairies is of a different character from that in the mountains. He dislikes people of that character. <DD> 2. moral nature; moral strength or weakness. The special ways in which any person feels, thinks, and acts, considered as good or bad, make up his character. Ex. He has a shallow, changeable character. <DD> 3. moral firmness, self-control, or integrity. Ex. It takes character to endure hardship for very long. The boy has no character whatever. <DD> 4. the estimate formed of a person's qualities; reputation. Ex. to have an infamous character. Her character is unimpeachable. <DD> 5. good qualities, or the reputation of possessing them; good reputation. Ex. He has established his character by his honesty and integrity. <DD> 6a. a distinctive feature; trait; characteristic. Ex. Tell me what one character of liberty the Americans have (Edmund Burke). <DD> b. a special quality or thing that makes one person, one animal, one plant, one thing, or a group of any kind different from others; trait or characteristic. The size and form of a given breed of dogs and the fragrance of a sweet pea are characters. Ex. The trunk is a character found only in elephants. <DD> 7. position or condition. Ex. The treasurer of the club also serves in the character of secretary. <DD> 8a. a person or animal in a play, poem, story, or book. Ex. The novels of Dickens are filled with amusing characters. Mickey Mouse is a famous cartoon character. <DD> b. the personality or part assumed by an actor. Ex. As the central character, Christopher Bruce has a nervous energy equally impressive in violent movement or tense repose (London Times). <DD> 9. a person; individual; personality. Ex. a curious character, an interesting character. <DD> 10. (Informal.) a person who attracts attention because he is different or odd. Ex. Merlo is a character. He carries sawdust in his pocket to help his grip (London Times). <DD> 11. a letter, mark, or sign used in writing or printing. A, a, +, -, 1, 2, and 3 are characters. Ex. There are 52 characters in our alphabet, consisting of 26 small letters and 26 capital letters. He felt ... only the dreariness of a man who tries to write an important letter on a damp sheet and finds the characters blur (Graham Greene). <DD> 12a. writing or printing of a certain style. Ex. Books in Gothic character are difficult to read. <DD> b. the symbols used for writing or printing a particular language, taken collectively. <DD> c. the style of writing of a particular person; hand. <DD> 13a. a description of a person's qualities. <DD> b. a literary description of familiar types of people, especially popular in the 1600's; character sketch. <DD> 14. a written testimonial, especially from a former employer, describing the qualities and capacities of an employee. Ex. The director had given him a good character. <DD> 15. a distinctive mark or symbol put on anything; a significant symbol; brand. <DD> 16. (Archaic.) a system of secret writing; cipher. <DD>v.t. 1. to describe the qualities of; delineate. <DD> 2. to represent; portray. <DD> 3. to write; inscribe. Ex. the table wherein all my thoughts are visibly charactered and engraved (Shakespeare). <DD> 4. to give a character to; characterize. expr. in character, as expected; natural or usual; appropriate. Ex. It is not in character for him to be late. ... the answer is clearly in character (Edward Freeman). expr. out of character, not as expected; not natural or usual; not appropriate. Ex. It is out of character for small children to sit still for a long time. It is always self-ignorance that leads a man to act out of character (John Mason). adj. characterless. </DL> <A NAME="characteractor"> character actor,<DL COMPACT><DD> an actor who commonly plays the role of a person with marked unusual or eccentric characteristics. </DL> <A NAME="characterassassination"> character assassination,<DL COMPACT><DD> a malevolent attack upon someone's reputation; defamation. Ex. How much did free American reporting of confidential and sometimes irresponsible information ... aid the character assassinations of the McCarthy period? (Listener). </DL> <A NAME="characterful"> characterful, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> strongly expressive of character. Ex. It is a challenge to Americans everywhere on their ability in these confused and complicated times to get themselves served by their most scientific and characterful men (Birmingham Post-Herald). </DL> <A NAME="characterise"> characterise, transitive verb, -ised, -ising.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) characterize. </DL> <A NAME="characteristic"> characteristic, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. marking off or distinguishing a certain person or thing from others; special; distinctive. Ex. the characteristic stripes of a tiger. Bananas have their own characteristic smell. <DD>noun 1. a special quality or feature; whatever distinguishes one person or thing from others. Ex. Cheerfulness is a characteristic that we admire in people. An elephant's trunk is its most noticeable characteristic. The number of their legs is a characteristic of insects. (SYN) attribute, trait. <DD> 2. (Mathematics.) the whole number in a logarithm. (Example:) In the logarithm 2.95424, the characteristic is 2 and the mantissa is .95424. adv. characteristically. </DL> <A NAME="characterization"> characterization, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a characterizing; description of characteristics or essential features; portrayal in words or in a portrait. <DD> 2. the creation of characters in a play, poem, story, book, motion picture, or the like. Ex. The problem of characterization is fundamental to an estimate of Hawley's work (Harper's). <DD> 3a. the way an actor presents or portrays the personality he plays. <DD> b. the personality so presented. </DL> <A NAME="characterize"> characterize, transitive verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to describe the special qualities or features of (a person or thing); describe. Ex. The story of "Little Red Riding Hood" characterizes the wolf as a cunning and savage beast. (SYN) designate, class. <DD> 2. to be a characteristic of; distinguish; mark out. Ex. A camel is characterized by the humps on its back and its ability to do without water for several days. <DD> 3. to give character to. Ex. The author characterized his heroine in a few short paragraphs. adj. characterizable. noun characterizer. </DL> <A NAME="characterneurosis"> character neurosis,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychiatry.) any typical or marked characteristic, such as passiveness, aggressiveness, or moodiness, regarded as a form of neurosis. </DL> <A NAME="characterological"> characterological, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with characterology. Ex. The patients proved to have one characterological feature in common, namely, that overeating was part of their regular response to stress (Robert W. White). adv. characterologically. </DL> <A NAME="characterology"> characterology, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of character or personality. Ex. Freudian themes ... have given the world a new conception of both infancy and adolescence, and shed much new light upon characterology (G. Stanley Hall). </DL> <A NAME="charactersketch"> character sketch,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a literary profile of a person or a type, bringing out notable characteristics. <DD> 2. a brief characterization on the stage. Ex. This dandy adaptation of the recent Terence Rattigan play [Separate Tables] offers some notable character sketches of lonely people at a drab British seaside resort hotel during the off season (Newsweek). </DL> <A NAME="characterstudy"> character study,<DL COMPACT><DD> a representation or description of character in a story, sketch, play, book, motion picture, or the like. Ex. ... weakened as a character study by oversimplification and dialogue that is too dramatically weak (Punch). </DL> <A NAME="characterwitness"> character witness,<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who is called upon to give testimony in behalf ofthe character and reputation of one of the parties in a legal case. </DL> <A NAME="charactery"> charactery, noun, pl. -teries.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the use of signs or symbols to express meaning. <DD> 2. the characters or symbols collectively. </DL> <A NAME="charade"> charade, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. Often, charades. a game in which one player acts out a word or phrase or its various parts and the others try to guess what it is. If the word he wants guessed is penmanship, the player might act out "pen," "man," and "ship." <DD> b. a word or phrase represented in this game. <DD> 2. gestures made for an effect; sham performance or behavior. Ex. Without new life being constantly breathed in, working institutions tend to degenerate into charades (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="charango"> charango, noun, pl. -gos.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small Latin-American guitar with five to ten strings, usually made from the shell of armadillos. </DL> <A NAME="charbon"> charbon, noun. =anthrax.</DL> <A NAME="charbray"> Charbray, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a breed of beef cattle developed in the United States by crossing the Charolaise and the Brahma. </DL> <A NAME="charbroiled"> charbroiled, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> broiled over charcoal. Ex. charbroiled hamburgers. Some of these items might not be quite as tasty as--well, as a charbroiled prime sirloin (Atlanta Constitution). </DL> <A HREF="charcoal.dic">NEXT</A>