charm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chäm
ipa: /tʃɑːm/
enpr: chärm
ipa: /t͡ʃɑɹm/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: charms
form: charme
Etymology: From Middle English charme, from Old French charme (“chant, magic spell”), from Latin carmen (“song, incantation”).
Senses: examples: text: a charm against evil
text: It works like a charm.
text: The witch, repository of hieratic lore and folk legends and occult arcana, became the distributor of philtres and unguents, electuaries and pastilles, herbs and charms and incantations - directed toward sexual pleasures and amatory satisfactions.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 223:
synonyms: incantation
spell
talisman
glosses: An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
examples: text: He had great personal charm.
text: She tried to win him over with her charms.
text: […]the charm of Beauties powerful glance.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt,
 To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
ref: 1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
text: Charms ſtrike the ſight, but merit wins the ſoul.
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto V, page 160:
text: Her coyneſs was conquered by aſſiduity, and at laſt ſhe conſented to reſign the treaſure of her charms to my paſſion.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 15:
synonyms: appeal
attraction
charisma
antonyms: boredom
dryness
glosses: The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
examples: text: She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist.
synonyms: amulet
dangle
ornament
glosses: A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
synonyms: flock
glosses: The collective noun for a group of goldfinches.
examples: text: In trying to understand the long life of the psi particle, physicists postulated the notion of “charm.” Charm, they say, prevents the “easy” decay of particles and thus prolongs their lifetimes. U particles, Dr. Pert said, may carry the property of charm.
ref: 1975 July 31, Sandra Blakeslee, “Another Particle Believed Discovered”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Mesons which combine the charmed quark with the up or down antiquarks are denoted the D mesons. These mesons carry explicit charm (i.e. have a non-zero charm quantum number), just as the K mesons carry strangeness.
ref: 2020, James E. Dodd, Ben Gripaios, The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 173:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: strangeness
glosses: A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
topics: business
finance
synonyms: delta decay
DdeltaDtime
hypernyms: Greeks
glosses: A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
examples: text: Undoubtedly one of the most important pieces to navigating Windows 8, charms are actually not visible until a command to show them is given.
ref: 2012, J. Peter Bruzzese, Using Windows 8:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: An icon providing quick access to a command or setting.