The difference between Charm and Spell

When used as nouns, charm means an object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation), whereas spell means words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.

When used as verbs, charm means to seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something, whereas spell means to put under the influence of a spell.


check bellow for the other definitions of Charm and Spell

  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).

  1. Spell as a noun:

    Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.

    Examples:

    "He cast a spell to cure warts."

  2. Spell as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "under a spell"

  3. Spell as a noun (obsolete):

    Speech, discourse.

  1. Spell as a verb:

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

  2. Spell as a verb (obsolete):

    To speak, to declaim.

  3. Spell as a verb (obsolete):

    To tell; to relate; to teach.

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

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

  2. Spell as a verb (transitive, sometimes with “out”):

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

  3. Spell as a verb (intransitive):

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

    Examples:

    "I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic."

  4. Spell as a verb (transitive):

    Of letters: to compose (a word).

    Examples:

    "The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”."

  5. Spell as a verb (transitive, figuratively):

    To indicate that (some event) will occur.

    Examples:

    "This spells trouble."

  6. Spell as a verb (transitive, figuratively, with “out”):

    To clarify; to explain in detail.

    Examples:

    "Please spell it out for me."

  7. Spell as a verb:

    To constitute; to measure.

  1. Spell as a verb (transitive):

    To work in place of (someone).

    Examples:

    "to spell the helmsman"

  2. Spell as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook."

  3. Spell as a verb (intransitive, colloquial):

    To rest from work for a time.

  1. Spell as a noun (rare):

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

  2. Spell as a noun (informal):

    A definite (of work or other activity).

  3. Spell as a noun (colloquial):

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

  4. Spell as a noun:

    A period of rest; time off.

  5. Spell as a noun (colloquial, US):

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

  6. Spell as a noun (cricket):

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

  1. Spell as a noun (dialectal):

    A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Holland"

  2. Spell as a noun:

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