different between charm vs entertain

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: chärm, IPA^(key): /t???m/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chäm, IPA^(key): /t???m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Etymology 1

From Middle English charme, from Old French charme (“chant, magic spell”), from Latin carmen (“song, incantation”).

Alternative forms

• charme (obsolete)

Noun

charm (countable and uncountable, plural charms)

1. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).

   Synonyms: incantation, spell, talisman

2. (often in the plural) The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.

   Synonyms: appeal, attraction, charisma

   Antonyms: boredom, dryness
3. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.

   Synonyms: amulet, dangle, ornament

4. (particle physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.

   Coordinate term: strangeness
5. (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.

   Synonyms: delta decay, DdeltaDtime

   Hypernym: Greeks

Translations

Verb

charm (third-person singular simple present charms, present participle charming, simple past and past participle charmed)

2. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.

   Synonyms: delight, enchant, entrance
3. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.

   Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, ensorcel, enspell
4. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
5. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
6. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Variant of chirm, from Middle English chirme, from Old English ?ierm (“cry, alarm”), from Proto-Germanic *karmiz.

Noun

charm (plural charms)

1. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p. 152:

     The laughter rose like the charm of starlings.

2. A flock, group (especially of finches).

Further reading

• charm (quantum number) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• charm quark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• March, march

Chinese

Etymology

Shortened from English charming.

Pronunciation

Adjective

charm

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, usually of a male) charming (clarification of this definition is needed)

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English charm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t???m]

Noun

charm c (singular definite charmen, plural indefinite charms)

1. charm (jewelry)

Inflection

Etymology 2

See charme (“to charm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????m]

Verb

charm

1. imperative of charme

Palauan

Noun

charm

1. animal

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?arm/

Noun

charm c

1. charm; the ability to persuade, delight, or arouse admiration

Declension

Related terms

• charma
• charmant
• charmera
• charmig
• charmerande
• charmör

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French entretenir, from entre (“among”) + tenir (“to hold”), from Latin inter + tene? (“hold, keep”). For the noun, compare French entretien.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nt??te?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nt??te?n/, [??????t?e?n]
• Hyphenation: en?ter?tain
• Rhymes: -e?n

Verb

entertain (third-person singular simple present entertains, present participle entertaining, simple past and past participle entertained)

1. (transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.

2. (transitive and intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.

   • Be not forgetful to entertain strangers […]

3. (transitive) To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
   • 1851, Thomas De Quincey, Literary Reminiscences

     I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.

   • A rumour gained ground, — and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.

4. (obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
5. (obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
6. (obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     to baptize all nations, and to entertain them into the services and institutions of the holy Jesus

Derived terms

• entertainer
• entertaining
• entertainment

Related terms

Translations

Noun

entertain (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Entertainment; pleasure.
2. (obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

     But neede, that answers not to all requests, / Bad them not looke for better entertayne […].

Further reading

• entertain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• entertain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• entertain at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Tarentine, Terentian, antienter