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charm
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)
- An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
- Synonyms: incantation, spell, talisman
- (often in the plural) The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
- Synonyms: appeal, attraction, charisma
- Antonyms: boredom, dryness
- A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
- Synonyms: amulet, dangle, ornament
- (particle physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
- Coordinate term: strangeness
- (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)
- To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
- Synonyms: delight, enchant, entrance
- (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.
- Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, ensorcel, enspell
- To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
- (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
- 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)
- 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.
- 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p. 152:
- 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
- (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)
- charm (jewelry)
Inflection
Etymology 2
See charme (“to charm”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [????m]
Verb
charm
- imperative of charme
Palauan
Noun
charm
- animal
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?arm/
Noun
charm c
- charm; the ability to persuade, delight, or arouse admiration
Declension
Related terms
- charma
- charmant
- charmera
- charmig
- charmerande
- charmör
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fitness
English
Physical fitness on Wikiversity.Wikiversity
Etymology
From fit +? -ness, 16th century, physical sense from 1935.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?tn?s/
- Rhymes: -?tn?s
Noun
fitness (usually uncountable, plural fitnesses)
- The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
- The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
- (evolutionary theory) An organism's or species' degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring.
- (Britain, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.
Synonyms
- (cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique): beauty, health
- (condition of being suitable): strength, suitability, competence, capability
Antonyms
- unfitness
- (cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique): flab, sloth
- (ability to perform): weakness
Derived terms
- warrant of fitness
Translations
Anagrams
- infests, stefins
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English fitness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fitnes?/, [?fit?ne?s??]
- Rhymes: -itnes?
- Syllabification: fit?ness
Noun
fitness
- fitness (a type of fitness sport)
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English fitness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fit.n?s/
Noun
fitness m (uncountable)
- (physical) fitness
Further reading
- “fitness” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English fitness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?it.n?s/
Noun
fitness m inan
- aerobics or similar physical exercises
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English fitness.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?fit??.nes/
Noun
fitness m (uncountable)
- fitness (cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique)
- (artificial intelligence) fitness (degree of appropriateness of an answer in a genetic algorithm)
Spanish
Noun
fitness m (uncountable)
- fitness (cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique)
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