charm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English charme, from Old French charme (“chant, magic spell”), from Latin carmen (“song, incantation”).
Inflected forms:
form: charms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: charme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: charms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: charming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: charmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: charmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: charme
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a charm against evil
It works like a charm.
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.
gloss: The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
often
uncountable
examples: He had great personal charm.
She tried to win him over with her charms.
[…]the charm of Beauties powerful glance.
Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt,
 To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
Charms ſtrike the ſight, but merit wins the ſoul.
Her coyneſs was conquered by aſſiduity, and at laſt ſhe conſented to reſign the treaſure of her charms to my paſſion.
gloss: A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist.
gloss: The collective noun for a group of goldfinches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
particle
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An icon providing quick access to a command or setting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Undoubtedly one of the most important pieces to navigating Windows 8, charms are actually not visible until a command to show them is given.
gloss: To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
pos: verb
examples: He charmed her with his dashing tales of his days as a sailor.
[…]they, on thir mirth & dance / Intent, with jocond Muſic charm his ear;
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
gloss: To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to ensorcel or exert a magical effect on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After winning three games while wearing the chain, Dan began to think it had been charmed.
Nor no witch-craft charme thee.
gloss: To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
pos: verb
examples: She led a charmed life.
I, in mine owne woe charm’d, / Could not finde death,[…]
gloss: To make music upon.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: But ah my corage cooles ere it be warme, / For thy, content vs in thys humble ſhade: / Where no ſuch troublous tydes han vs aſſayde, / Here we our ſlender pipes may ſafely charme.
gloss: To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
pos: verb
examples: Music the fierceſt griefs can charm, / And fate's ſevereſt rage diſarm: […]
Derived words: anticharm
anti-charm quark
becharm
charmable
charm bracelet
charmer
charmfest
charmful
charming
charmless
charmlet
charmlike
charm offensive
charmonium
charm pricing
charm school
charmstone
charm the birds from the trees
…out of…
charm a bird off a branch
charm up
charmwork
countercharm
decharm
discharm
encharm
exocharmic
like a charm
love charm
lucky charm
outcharm
scharm
scharm squark
third time is the charm
…'s the…
…’s a…
three times a charm
uncharm
watch charm
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: encant
lang: Finnish
word: lumo
lang: German
word: Charm
lang: Japanese
word: チャーム
roman: chāmu
lang: Macedonian
word: шарм
roman: šarm
lang: Russian
word: очарова́ние
roman: očarovánije
lang: Spanish
word: encanto
lang: Ukrainian
word: чарі́вність
roman: čarívnistʹ