character

Noun

character (plural characters)

1. A being involved in the action of a story.
2. A symbol used to represent a sound or a word.
3. A distinguishing feature; characteristic; A complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person or a group.
4. A moral strength.

   "You may not like to eat liver," said Calvin"s father, "but it builds character."

5. A person with many notable or eccentric features.
6. (mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
7. (computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character. Synonymous with byte in some environments.

9 letters in word "character": A A C C E H R R T.

No anagrams for character found in this word list.

• Definitions:
• fictional character: an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel" quality: a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands" the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona" a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" good repute; "he is a man of character" a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all to often answered evasively" a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes engrave or inscribe characters on
• Character is an album by the Swedish, melodic death metal band, Dark Tranquillity. The album was first released in January 24, 2005 through Century Media Records. The corresponding single, "Lost to Apathy" was previously featured on the Lost to Apathy EP, their first EP released in nearly 10 years.
• Character (Dutch: Karakter) is a 1997 Dutch film, based on the best-selling novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk and directed by Mike van Diem. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards. The film stars Fedja van Huêt, Jan Decleir, and Betty Schuurman.
• In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme or a grapheme-like unit or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.
• For purposes of calculating a taxpayer's tax liability, character is the type of income. As the Supreme Court teaches in Commissioner_v._Glenshaw_Glass_Co. ...
• There are several meanings of the word character in mathematics, although all are related to the idea of using fields (most of the time the complex numbers), to study a more abstract algebraic structure.
• A conceptual character defined in a SWF file. This could be a shape, bitmap, sound, font or button. A character can be defined by more than 1 data tag. With additional tags adding information to the basic character definition.
• Any personified entity appearing in a film or a play.
• That which makes a wine distinctive. A region's wine-making tradition, soils, and grape varieties combine to produce a wine's character.
• (1) A letter, digit, or other symbol that is used to represent data. (2) A sequence of one or more bytes representing a single graphic symbol or control code. ...
• 1. A single group of bars and spaces that represent an individual number, letter, punctuation mark, or other symbol. 2. A graphic shape representing a letter, numeral, or symbol. 3. A letter, digit, or other symbol that is used as part of the organization, control, or representation of data.
• a functional "person" appearing in a play or other work of fiction; role as portrayed by an actor or actress.
• (1) The smallest component of written language that has semantic value; refers to the abstract meaning and/or shape, rather than a specific shape (see also glyph), though in code tables some form of visual representation is essential for the reader's understanding. ...
• A letter, digit or other symbol that is used as the representation of data. A connected sequence of characters is called a character string.
• inheritable trait possessed by an organism;
• Each letter, numeral, punctuation mark or other symbol in a font.
• Balance, assertiveness, finesse and most other good qualities combine to create character.
• a wine of good character is one which doesn’t just slip down the throat and say "bye-bye"; it says "stop a while, friend. You have just come upon an above-average liquid. Think on it".
• A description when the wine is perceived as being solid and having substance.
• Any symbol on the computer keyboard that is printed on the screen. Characters include numbers, letters, punctuation and graphic symbols.
• Each individual letter, symbol or punctuation mark that makes up a full typeface.
• A person represented in a story.
• This is a type of person (profile) an actor is going to play. Characters are anything from a gangster to a business man, to a doctor or teacher in a film, photography shoot or television commercial project.
• term used to describe the flavor, odors and compounds in a particular wine. A wine that has a good character is full bodied and complex.
• The abstract concept of a letter as opposed to a particular representation of it. Characters can have many different representations, called glyphs, which all represent the same character.
• A symbol in writing. A letter, punctuation mark or figure.
• A person, animal, or an imaginary being in a narrative
• An attribute of individuals within a species for which heritable differences can be defined.
• A feature or trait of an organism. Characters have a specific structure and function.
• Essentially, any person in a story who does or says something. It’s the addition of unique and meaningful details that elevates a character beyond purely functional status.
• An individual letter, number, punctuation mark, symbol, or space within text or computer code.

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