character
n. nature, disposition; figure, personage; letter or symbol; digital representation of a letter or other symbol (Computers); character reference, statement of qualities and abilities | ||||
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Characters Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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character
colon epsilon SYN ampersand Mu tilde alphanumeric Device Control 4 code position asterisk elvish character Device Control 2 File Separator character encoding exclamation mark ASCII character table left arrow escape horizontal tabulation alt SBCS left brace RS equals Substitute swung dash ISO 8879 ISO 8859 ENQ at hash character commercial at kanji Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code left bracket comma broket EOU SO Carriage Return End Transmission Block End Of Transmission space EOT decimal point End of Medium End Of Line bell question mark Device Control greater than DBCS delimiter Cancel hex strudel Synchronous idle dot Group Separator right brace right bracket 2 right parenthesis double quote CJK CJKV coded character set DLE Han character PETSCII control code O control-Q backspace backslash Shift Out back quote Shift In brace control-S bracket dread high bit disease form feed number sign Start Of Text Start Of Header newline Record Separator CRLF control-O sharp escape sequence national characters oblique stroke octal forty single quote character set identifier line feed hash character set Nathan Hale less than control ACK glyph mesh left parenthesis negative acknowledgement character repertoire angle bracket pling control-C \uparrow Unicode VT underscore Universal Character Set Unit Separator uparrow whitespace UCS transformation format virgule US-ASCII twiddle zero vertical bar UTF-8 writing system
<character> An atom in a character repertoire.
Compare with glyph.
(1998-10-18)
colon epsilon SYN ampersand Mu tilde alphanumeric Device Control 4 code position asterisk elvish character Device Control 2 File Separator character encoding exclamation mark ASCII character table left arrow escape horizontal tabulation alt SBCS left brace RS equals Substitute swung dash ISO 8879 ISO 8859 ENQ at hash character commercial at kanji Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code left bracket comma broket EOU SO Carriage Return End Transmission Block End Of Transmission space EOT decimal point End of Medium End Of Line bell question mark Device Control greater than DBCS delimiter Cancel hex strudel Synchronous idle dot Group Separator right brace right bracket 2 right parenthesis double quote CJK CJKV coded character set DLE Han character PETSCII control code O control-Q backspace backslash Shift Out back quote Shift In brace control-S bracket dread high bit disease form feed number sign Start Of Text Start Of Header newline Record Separator CRLF control-O sharp escape sequence national characters oblique stroke octal forty single quote character set identifier line feed hash character set Nathan Hale less than control ACK glyph mesh left parenthesis negative acknowledgement character repertoire angle bracket pling control-C \uparrow Unicode VT underscore Universal Character Set Unit Separator uparrow whitespace UCS transformation format virgule US-ASCII twiddle zero vertical bar UTF-8 writing system
<character> An atom in a character repertoire.
Compare with glyph.
(1998-10-18)
Characters Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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character
Noun
1. an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
(synonym) fictional character, fictitious character
(hypernym) imaginary being, imaginary creature
(hyponym) Aladdin
2. 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"
(synonym) quality, lineament
(hypernym) property, attribute, dimension
(hyponym) texture
(derivation) characterize, characterise
3. 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
(synonym) fiber, fibre
(hypernym) trait
(hyponym) spirit
(part-holonym) personality
(part-meronym) thoughtfulness
4. an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"
(synonym) role, theatrical role, part, persona
(hypernym) portrayal, characterization, enactment, personation
(hyponym) bit part, minor role
5. 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"
(synonym) eccentric, type, case
(hypernym) adult, grownup
6. good repute; "he is a man of character"
(hypernym) repute, reputation
7. 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"
(synonym) reference, character reference
(hypernym) recommendation, testimonial, good word
(derivation) qualify, characterize, characterise
8. a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
(synonym) grapheme, graphic symbol
(hypernym) written symbol, printed symbol
(hyponym) allograph
Verb
1. engrave or inscribe characters on
(hypernym) engrave, grave, inscribe
(derivation) grapheme, graphic symbol
Noun
1. an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
(synonym) fictional character, fictitious character
(hypernym) imaginary being, imaginary creature
(hyponym) Aladdin
2. 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"
(synonym) quality, lineament
(hypernym) property, attribute, dimension
(hyponym) texture
(derivation) characterize, characterise
3. 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
(synonym) fiber, fibre
(hypernym) trait
(hyponym) spirit
(part-holonym) personality
(part-meronym) thoughtfulness
4. an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"
(synonym) role, theatrical role, part, persona
(hypernym) portrayal, characterization, enactment, personation
(hyponym) bit part, minor role
5. 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"
(synonym) eccentric, type, case
(hypernym) adult, grownup
6. good repute; "he is a man of character"
(hypernym) repute, reputation
7. 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"
(synonym) reference, character reference
(hypernym) recommendation, testimonial, good word
(derivation) qualify, characterize, characterise
8. a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
(synonym) grapheme, graphic symbol
(hypernym) written symbol, printed symbol
(hyponym) allograph
Verb
1. engrave or inscribe characters on
(hypernym) engrave, grave, inscribe
(derivation) grapheme, graphic symbol
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Characters Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Character
Character (word) (from the Greek "engraved or stamped mark (on coins or seals), branding mark, symbol") may refer to:
In the arts:
In the arts:
- a person (persona), in particular as portrayed by an actor or as appears in a literary work, whether a fictional character or historic figure (Historical character).
- Fictional character, and such archetypes as the protagonist, villain and trickster
- Non-fictional character
- Character (album) by Dark Tranquillity
- Characters (album) by Stevie Wonder
- Character (1997 film)
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