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A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
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character
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Character \Char"ac*ter\, n. [L., an instrument for marking, character, Gr. ?, fr. ? to make sharp, to cut into furrows, to engrave: cf. F. caract[`e]re.] A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout ...
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v. engrave or inscribe characters on
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In mathematics , a character is (most commonly) a special kind of function from a group to a field (such as the complex numbers ). There are at least two distinct, but overlapping meanings. Other uses of the word "character" are almost always qualified.
Usage examples of character.
Ted were just another character in the story, and a minor character at that.
And yes, there were certainly movie scenes in the offices looking out over the mines, the noise, the smoke, but this character Bagby, they remembered a minor character in the movie, kind of a straight man, a foil, short, fat, foul mouthed, a kind of a Punchinello, Oscar, real opera buffa, Bagby in one or two crude dimensions maybe, a stock character, a comic device.
It seems strange that the Moslim peoples, although the theory of Islam never attributed an hereditary character to the Khalifate, attached so high a value to the Abbasid name, that they continued unanimously to acknowledge the Khalifate of Bagdad for centuries during which it possessed no influence.
Confrontation is not a large part of his character and Abraham, unlike his own son Joshua, both fears and dislikes his father.
The old charge of vanity, the character flaw that Adams so often chastised himself for, had been made again, and on the floor of Congress, just as he was to assume his most important role.
As early as May, Hamilton had launched a letter campaign to his High Federalist coterie declaring Adams unfit and incapable as President, a man whose defects of character were guaranteed to bring certain ruin to the party.
A Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq.
John Adams and the Prophets of Progress, The Character of John Adams by Peter Shaw, and two works on the Adams presidency by Ralph A.
There was no evidence of coercion, which agrees with my knowledge of your character.
The symbols, except that for Cauac, are too plain to admit of doubt, and there is no difficulty in reference to Cauac, the question of doubt being with regard to the Ahau, which is partially surrounded by other characters and may, apparently, be as correctly considered a part of the hieroglyphic inscription as of the day column.
NEITHER of the air service boys had any doubts now with regard to the character of the grounds they were invading at dead of night.
This is just like the invasion of Italy in 553 by the Alamannic brethren, and is quite in keeping with the loosely compacted character of the Merovingian monarchy, in which it was copied by the Anglian and Saxon Kingdoms.
He also heard from Prior Alcock that for a month past, the forest below Malvern Abbey, about the Rhydd ford, had been the haunt of a body of outlaws who had committed numerous depredations of an alarming character.
American people understood the real character of Alger Hiss, they would boil him in oil.
I afterwards found that these fellows were not Arabs, but Algerine refugees, and that they bore the character of being sad scoundrels.