The difference between Appeal and Charm

When used as nouns, appeal means an application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for re-examination or review, whereas charm means an object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).

When used as verbs, appeal means to accuse (someone of something), whereas charm means to seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.

check bellow for the other definitions of Appeal and Charm

  1. Appeal as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To accuse (someone of something).

  2. Appeal as a verb (transitive, legal, chiefly, US, informal elsewhere):

    To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination or for decision.

  3. Appeal as a verb (intransitive):

    To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.

  4. Appeal as a verb (intransitive):

    To call on (someone) for aid

    Examples:

    "I appeal to all of you to help the orphans."

  5. Appeal as a verb (intransitive):

    To be attractive.

    Examples:

    "That idea appeals to me."

  6. Appeal as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

    To ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that" or "Howzat".

  7. Appeal as a verb:

    To summon; to challenge.

  8. Appeal as a verb:

    To invoke.

  1. Appeal as a noun (legal):

    An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for re-examination or review. The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected. The right of appeal. An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public. An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Tomlins"

    "rfquotek Bouvier"

  2. Appeal as a noun:

    A summons to answer to a charge.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek John Dryden"

  3. Appeal as a noun (cricket):

    A call to a person or an authority for help, proof or a decision; entreaty. The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.

    Examples:

    "He made an appeal for volunteers to help at the festival."

  4. Appeal as a noun:

    Resort to physical means; recourse.

  5. Appeal as a noun:

    The power to attract or interest.

  1. Charm as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "a charm against evil"

    "It works like a charm."

  2. Charm as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "He had great personal charm."

    "She tried to win him over with her charms."

  3. Charm as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist."

  4. Charm as a noun (physics):

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

  5. Charm as a noun (finance):

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

  1. Charm as a verb:

    To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.

    Examples:

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

  2. Charm as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

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

  3. Charm as a verb:

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

    Examples:

    "She led a charmed life."

  4. Charm as a verb (obsolete, rare):

    To make music upon.

  5. Charm as a verb:

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

  1. Charm as a noun:

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

  2. Charm as a noun:

    A flock, group (especially of finches).

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