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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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interest
English
Alternative forms
- enterest (obsolete)
- interess (obsolete)
- intherest (pronunciation spelling, suggesting an Irish accent)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/, /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/, /??nt??st/
- Hyphenation: in?ter?est
Noun
interest (usually uncountable, plural interests)
- (uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. [from earlier 16th c.]
- (uncountable, finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
- 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act IV, sc 3:
- You shall have your desires with interest
- 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act IV, sc 3:
- (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. [from later 18th c.]
- (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
- (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
- (countable) Something or someone one is interested in.
- (uncountable) Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance
- 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, Essay VIII:
- The conscience, indeed, is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest.
- 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, Essay VIII:
- (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
- (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
Synonyms
- (fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed): cost of money, oker
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
interest (third-person singular simple present interests, present participle interesting, simple past and past participle interested)
- To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
- It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
- Action films don't really interest me.
- (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
- 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
- Or rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory, since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel.
- 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
- (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
Antonyms
- bore
- disinterest
Derived terms
- interested
- interesting
Translations
Further reading
- "interest" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 171.
Anagrams
- Steinert, ernstite, inertest, insetter, interset, sternite, tres-tine, trientes
Dutch
Alternative forms
- interesse (obsolete)
- intrest
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Doublet of interesse.
Pronunciation
Noun
interest m (plural interesten, diminutive interestje n)
- (finance) interest
Synonyms
- rente
Latin
Verb
interest
- third-person singular present active indicative of intersum
References
- interest in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- interest in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- interest in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Middle French
Noun
interest m (plural interests)
- interest (great attention and concern from someone or something)
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