different between chars vs chark

English

Verb

chars

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of char

Noun

chars

1. plural of char

Anagrams

• Rasch, crash

French

Noun

chars m

1. plural of char

English

Etymology

Related to the first element of charcoal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???(?)k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Noun

chark (countable and uncountable, plural charks)

1. Charcoal; coke.
2. A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire drill.
3. (US, Alaska) A wine glass.
4. A Middle Eastern falcon, probably the lanner.
   • 1856, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, 2nd Edition,

     A good chark will sometimes take as many as eight or ten bustards or five or six gazelles in the course of a morning.

Verb

chark (third-person singular simple present charks, present participle charking, simple past and past participle charked)

1. To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.
   • 1749, John Lowthorp, Royal Society of Great Britain, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the end of the year MDCC, 5th Edition,

     I have ?een Turf chark'd, and then it ?erves to work Iron, and, as I have been inform'd will ?erve to make it in a Bloomery or Iron-work. Turf chark'd I reckon the ?weete?t and whole?ome?t Fire that can be, fitter for a Chamber and con?umptive People, than either Wood, Stone-Coal or Charcoal.
2. (Scotland) To make a grating sound.
   • 1820, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 7,

     The hoarse charking conversation which they carried on was calculated to support the delusion.

Anagrams

• Karch

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ark/

Noun

chark c (uncountable)

1. Clipping of charkuteri (“charcuterie”).

Declension

Usage notes

Common in compounds such as charkdisk (“charcuterie desk (at a grocery store)”) and charkavdelning (“charcuterie section (of a grocery store)”).