Char vs. Burn — What's the Difference?

Char is the solid material that remains after light gases (e.g. coal gas) and tar have been driven out or released from a carbonaceous material during the initial stage of combustion, which is known as carbonization, charring, devolatilization or pyrolysis.

A burn is a type of injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or ultraviolet radiation (like sunburn). Most burns are due to heat from hot liquids (called scalding), solids, or fire.

To burn the surface of; scorch.

To undergo combustion or be consumed as fuel

To reduce to carbon or charcoal by incomplete combustion. ]

To be damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent

To work as a charwoman.

To consume fuel

Any of several salmonid fishes of the genus Salvelinus, usually having a dark body with light spots, and including the arctic char, the brook trout, and the lake trout.

To emit heat or light by fire or energy

A charwoman.

To become dissipated or be dispelled

(ergative) To burn something to charcoal.

To suffer death or punishment by fire

To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.

To be electrocuted.

(obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.

To be very hot; bake

To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.

To feel or look hot

(obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.

To impart a sensation of heat

To work or hew (stone, etc.)

To penetrate something by intense heat, energy, or caustic effect

A charred substance.

To cause a strong impression, especially by emotional intensity

Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.

To become irritated or painful, as by chafing or inflammation

(obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.

To become sunburned or windburned.

(obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.

To be or become angry

An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.

To be very eager

A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.

To cause to undergo combustion, especially to the point of destruction

A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).

To consume (fuel or energy, for example)

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To use as a fuel

(British) cha (tea)

To metabolize (glucose, for example) in the body.

One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

To damage or injure by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent

A car; a chariot.

To make or produce by fire or heat

Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.

To dispel or dissipate, as by heat

To perform; to do; to finish.

To execute or kill with fire

To work or hew, as stone.

To execute by electrocution.

To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.

To irritate or inflame, as by chafing or sunburn.

To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

To impart a sensation of intense heat to

To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.

To make angry

A charred substance

To brand (an animal).

A human female who does housework;

To engrave or make indelible by burning

Any of several small-scaled trout

To cause to be felt or remembered because of emotional intensity

Burn to charcoal;

To harden or impart a finish to by subjecting to intense heat; fire

Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color;

To defeat in a contest, especially by a narrow margin.

(Sports) To outplay or score on (an opponent), especially through quick or deceptive movement.

To inflict harm or hardship on; hurt

To swindle or deceive; cheat

To write data onto (an optical disc).

To write (data) onto an optical disc.

An injury produced by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent.

A burned place or area

An act, process, or result of burning

A sensation of intense heat, stinging pain, or irritation

A sunburn or windburn.

A small stream; a brook.

A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

A sensation resembling such an injury.

The act of burning something with fire.

(slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.

(slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn excellent or badass insult.

Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.

Tobacco.

(computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

(uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.

(aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.

Stream A stream.

(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.

(intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

(transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.

(intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

(transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

(transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.

To cauterize.

(ambitransitive) To sunburn.

(transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.

(intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.

To betray.

To insult or defeat.

(transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

To accidentally touch a moving stone.

In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

(photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).

To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.

To discard.

To shoot someone with a firearm.

To compromise (an agent's cover story).

To blackmail.

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; - frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.

To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.

To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.

To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.

To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.

To be of fire; to flame.

To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.

To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.

To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.

In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.

The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.

A small stream.

Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun

An injury cause by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation

A burned place or area

Damage inflicted by burning

Destroy by fire;

Shine intensely, as if with heat;

Undergo combustion;

Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;

Cause to burn or combust;

Feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion;

Cause to undergo combustion;

Burn at the stake;

Spend (significant amounts of money);

Feel hot or painful;

Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent;

Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun

Create by duplicating data;

Use up (energy);

Burn with heat, fire, or radiation;