Charles

[chahrlz, sharl]

noun

1. Jacques Alexandre César 1746–1823, French physicist and inventor.

2. Ray Ray Charles Robinson, 1930–2004, U.S. blues singer and pianist.

3. Cape, a cape in E Virginia, N of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay.

4. a river in E Massachusetts, flowing between Boston and Cambridge into the Atlantic. 47 miles (75 km) long.

5. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “man.”

Charles

/ tʃɑːlz /

noun

1. Prince of Wales. born 1948, son of Elizabeth II; heir apparent to the throne of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He married (1981) Lady Diana Spencer; they separated in 1992 and were divorced in 1996; their son, Prince William of Wales, was born in 1982 and their second son, Prince Henry, in 1984; married (2005) Camilla Parker Bowles

2. Ray real name Ray Charles Robinson. 1930–2004, US singer, pianist, and songwriter, whose work spans jazz, blues, gospel, pop, and country music

Charles

1. French physicist and inventor who formulated Charles's law in 1787. In 1783 he became the first person to use hydrogen in balloons for flight.

Example Sentences

Yet companies continue to leave—Charles Schwab, Tesla, Chevron and Playboy Enterprises in recent years—and shift jobs to other states.

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It reminds one of how Charles Dickens, in response to Britain’s 19th-century Poor Law, an amendment to earlier poor laws, that required the poor to live in purposely unpleasant workhouses, wrote “Oliver Twist.”

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Hamilton lacked pace throughout in the wet, conditions in which he has scored some of his greatest victories, and ended up 2.301 seconds slower than team-mate Charles Leclerc in the first session.

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Around this time, the paper showed up in the inbox of a University of California, San Diego, computer scientist named Charles Elkan.

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Gavekal Research’s Charles Gave argues that in one sense the current situation looks worse than the dot-com bubble.

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