Meaning of charm in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).

  Example: It works like a charm.

• The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.

  Example: He had great personal charm.

• A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.

  Example: She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist.

• A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.

• A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.

verb

• To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.

  Example: He charmed her with his dashing tales of his days as a sailor.

• To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.

  Example: After winning three games while wearing the chain, Dan began to think it had been charmed.

• To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.

  Example: She led a charmed life.

• To make music upon.

• To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.

noun

• The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.

• A flock, group (especially of finches).