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noun
a distinguishing trait, quality, or property
the characteristics of this breed of dog
the integral part of a common logarithm
the smallest positive integer n which for an operation in a ring or field yields 0 when any element is used n times with the operation
adjective
revealing, distinguishing, or typical of an individual character
a poetic style characteristic of the epic
Noun see character >entry 1 Adjective see character >entry 1
The first known use of characteristic was in 1646
Cherokeenoun
a member of an Indigenous people originally from Tennessee and North Carolinaalso: their language
cheerlessadjective
offering no cheer : gloomy
cheerlessadjective
offering no cheer : gloomy
cheerleadernoun
a person who leads organized cheering (as at a football or basketball game)
cheddarnoun
a hard yellow or white cheese of smooth texture
checkroomnoun
a room at which baggage, parcels, or clothing can be left for safekeeping
chat roomnoun
an online interactive discussion group on the Internet
charyadjective
cautious especially to protect something
chary of his reputation
slow to give, accept, or spend
chary of praise
characterizationnoun
the act of characterizing
the creation of characters (as in a book or play)
characteristic1 of 2noun
a special quality or appearance that makes an individual or group different from others
characteristic2 of 2adjective
typical of an individual or group
1 The pianist, another senior figure, played with his characteristically penetrating tone, rounded phrasing and introverted lack of theatricality.
2 It is a characteristically toneless, enigmatic claim, placed before his followers on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
3 It was a characteristically dazzling performance, though 20 years later the same thing might well be accompanied by a dispute over casting a non-disabled actor.
4 Following some brief and, as I was later to observe, characteristically tense small talk with Rosy, Maurice and I walked down the Strand and across to Choy’s Restaurant in Soho.
5 But revisiting what you’ve already seen has its own pleasures, especially in the case of Mr. Brown’s characteristically energizing work, which Malpaso’s winning dancers have confidently grown into.
6 Mr. Sandler characteristically turns his insecurity into aggression; he’s a bully pretending to be an underdog.
7 His feature film career began – characteristically – with a script for a sequel to the landmark 1960 western The Magnificent Seven.
8 One of our most valuable violinists gives a free pop-up concert of characteristically wide range.
9 Loach, characteristically, is doing his utmost to extract sympathy for one of life’s casualties; there is little sympathy to spare for the council workers trying to deal with her.
10 Seiji Ozawa Speaks of His Continuing Road Back to Health MATSUMOTO, Japan — The conductor has characteristically exuded life, energy and a positive spirit, both on the stage and in personal contact.
11 MacMillan's music characteristically makes a dramatic impact.
麦克米伦的音乐一向给人很大的触动。
12 It came characteristically, from a quarter which nobody had suspected.
13 More than guitars, more than drums and certainly more than the shirt guitarist Dave Navarro characteristically went without, nostalgia was crucial to Jane's Addiction's hometown concert Saturday night in Los Angeles.
14 This self-assertion — or brashness — makes them characteristically American.
15 But Jerome also inspired artists to depict landscapes, usually some characteristically leafy European fantasy of the “barren desert” where he supposedly spent years beating his chest with a rock and pondering the vanity of life.
16 He was to stay for almost a year, and it is the story of this little-known episode that Michael Rosen tells in characteristically engaging style.
17 Her entry into this fraught subject is characteristically disarming.
18 He attempts to woo her in a characteristically extravagant manner.
他尝试过用挥金如土的阔绰方式去取悦于她.
19 This is a movie concerned with — and influenced by — an especially rich and complicated slice of 20th-century European culture, and therefore a reckoning, characteristically playful but also fundamentally serious, with some very ugly history.
20 This is characteristically fresh and tangy, with flavors of citrus, herbs and chamomile and a grainy, minerally depth that comes from aging on the lees, the remnants of yeast after fermentation.