Real Dictionary

char
verb: If food chars or if you char it, it burns slightly and turns black as it is cooking.

char in American English 1
anything charred; esp., charcoal
to reduce to charcoal by burning
intransitive verb: to become charred
noun: a charred material or surface
transitive verb: to burn or reduce to charcoal

char in American English 2
chare
to work as a charwoman
noun: any trout of the genus Salvelinus (or Cristovomer), esp. the Arctic char

char in American English 3
any of a genus (Salvelinus) of trouts with small scales and a red belly
noun: a charwoman

char in American English 4
tea (sense 3)
noun: tea

char in American English 5
character

char in British English 1
verb: to burn or be burned partially, esp so as to blacken the surface; scorch

char in British English 2
noun: any of various troutlike fishes of the genus Salvelinus, esp S. alpinus, occurring in cold lakes and northern seas: family Salmonidae (salmon)

char in British English 3
noun

char in British English 4
noun

char. in American English
abbreviation: character