Charm vs. Spell

Charmnoun

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

Charmnoun

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

Charmnoun

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

Charmnoun

(physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks.

Charmnoun

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

Charmnoun

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

Charmnoun

A flock, group (especially of finches).

Charmverb

To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.

Charmverb

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

Charmverb

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

Charmverb

To make music upon.

Charmverb

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

Charmnoun

A melody; a song.

Charmnoun

A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation.

Charmnoun

That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality.

Charmnoun

Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.

Charmnoun

Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain.

Charmnoun

a property of certain quarks which may take the value of +1, -1 or 0.

Charmverb

To make music upon; to tune.

Charmverb

To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic.

Charmverb

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

Charmverb

To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate.

Charmverb

To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.

Charmverb

To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.

Charmverb

To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.

Charmverb

To make a musical sound.

Charmnoun

attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates;

Charmnoun

a verbal formula believed to have magical force;

Charmnoun

something believed to bring good luck

Charmverb

attract; cause to be enamored;

Charmverb

control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft

Charmverb

protect through supernatural powers or charms

Charmverb

induce into action by using one's charm;

Spellnoun

Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.

Spellnoun

A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.

Spellnoun

(obsolete) Speech, discourse.

Spellnoun

A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.

Spellnoun

(informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).

Spellnoun

(colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.

Spellnoun

A period of rest; time off.

Spellnoun

A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.

Spellnoun

(cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.

Spellnoun

(dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.

Spellnoun

The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

Spellverb

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

Spellverb

(obsolete) To speak, to declaim.

Spellverb

(obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.

Spellverb

To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.

Spellverb

To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.

Spellverb

(intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.

Spellverb

(transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).

Spellverb

To indicate that (some event) will occur.

Spellverb

To clarify; to explain in detail.

Spellverb

To constitute; to measure.

Spellverb

(transitive) To work in place of (someone).

Spellverb

(transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.

Spellverb

To rest from work for a time.

Spellnoun

A spelk, or splinter.

Spellnoun

The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.

Spellnoun

The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.

Spellnoun

One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.

Spellnoun

A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.

Spellnoun

A story; a tale.

Spellnoun

A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.

Spellverb

To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.

Spellverb

To tell; to relate; to teach.

Spellverb

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

Spellverb

To constitute; to measure.

Spellverb

To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.

Spellverb

To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; - usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.

Spellverb

To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.

Spellverb

To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.

Spellnoun

a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

Spellnoun

a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else);

Spellnoun

a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition;

Spellnoun

a verbal formula believed to have magical force;

Spellverb

recite the letters of or give the spelling of;

Spellverb

indicate or signify;

Spellverb

write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word);

Spellverb

place under a spell