{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈkɛrɪktər" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/character.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/character.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(countable) A being involved in the action of a story.\n1695, John Dryden, A Parallel of Poetry and Painting:\nn a tragedy, or epick poem, the hero of the piece must be advanced foremost to the view of the reader or spectator; he must outshine the rest of all the characters; he must appear the prince of them, like the sun in the Copernican system, encompassed with the less noble planets …\n1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.\n2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club:But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it." }, { "mean": "(countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.\nA single locus governing the petal colour character was detected on the linkage group A2." }, { "mean": "(uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.\n1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC:A man of thoroughly subservient character\n1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.\nA study of the suspect's character and his cast iron alibi ruled him out." }, { "mean": "(uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.\nHe has a great deal of character.\n\"You may not like to eat liver,\" said Calvin's father, \"but it builds character.\"\n2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:Shepard: Are you attracted to other species?Kelly: Well, part of my job is predicting the motives and feelings of humans and aliens. Intimacy brings understanding.Kelly: And passion is nice wherever you find it. Character matters, not race or gender." }, { "mean": "(countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.\nJulius Caesar is a great historical character.\nThat bloke is such a character." }, { "mean": "(countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.\n1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: , London: T. N for J Martyn printer to the R Society, , →OCLC:It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye." }, { "mean": "(countable, dated) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.\nan inscription in the Runic character\nc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :You know the character to be your brother's?" }, { "mean": "(countable, dated) A secret cipher; a way of writing in code." }, { "mean": "(countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character." }, { "mean": "(countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown.\nWe saw a shady character slinking out of the office with some papers.\nThat old guy is a real character." }, { "mean": "(countable, mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group." }, { "mean": "(countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.\nin the miserable character of a slave\nin his character as a magistrate" }, { "mean": "(countable, dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.\na man's character for truth and veracity\nHer actions give her a bad character.\n1705, J Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:\nThis subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it." }, { "mean": "(countable, dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc." }, { "mean": "(countable, obsolete) Personal appearance." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) To write (using characters); to describe.\nc. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :O Roſalind, theſe Trees ſhall be my Bookes, / And in their barkes my thoughts Ile charracter, / That euery eye, which in this Forreſt lookes, / Shall ſee thy vertue witneſt euery where." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "codepoint\nfont\nglyph\nletter\nsymbol\nrune\npictogram" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }