Charge vs. Charging
Chargenoun
The scope of someone's responsibility.
Chargenoun
Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
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A load or burden; cargo.
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The amount of money levied for a service.
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An instruction.
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(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
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An accusation.
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(basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
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A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
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(heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
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A forceful forward movement.
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(weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
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(farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
Chargenoun
(obsolete) Weight; import; value.
Chargenoun
A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
Chargenoun
(ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
Chargeverb
To assign a duty or responsibility to.
Chargeverb
(transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
Chargeverb
(transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
Chargeverb
(ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
Chargeverb
(possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
Chargeverb
(law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
Chargeverb
To impute or ascribe.
Chargeverb
To call to account; to challenge.
Chargeverb
(transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
Chargeverb
To ornament with or cause to bear.
Chargeverb
(heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
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(heraldry) To add to or represent on.
Chargeverb
(transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
Chargeverb
(transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
Chargeverb
(transitive) To add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery).
Chargeverb
(intransitive) (Of a battery or a device containing a battery) To gain energy.
Chargeverb
(intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
Chargeverb
To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
Chargeverb
(basketball) To commit a charging foul.
Chargeverb
To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
Chargeverb
To lie on the belly and be still A command given by a hunter to a dog.
Chargeverb
To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
Chargeverb
To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.
Chargeverb
To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
Chargeverb
To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.
Chargeverb
To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.
Chargeverb
To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
Chargeverb
To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.
Chargeverb
To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.
Chargeverb
To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
Chargeverb
To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.
Chargeverb
To call to account; to challenge.
Chargeverb
To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
Chargeverb
To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.
Chargeverb
To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.
Chargeverb
To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.
Chargeverb
To squat on its belly and be still; - a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
Chargenoun
A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
Chargenoun
A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.
Chargenoun
Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
Chargenoun
Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.
Chargenoun
Harm.
Chargenoun
An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
Chargenoun
An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.
Chargenoun
An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
Chargenoun
Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; - usually in the plural.
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The price demanded for a thing or service.
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An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.
Chargenoun
That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time
Chargenoun
The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.
Chargenoun
A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
Chargenoun
A sort of plaster or ointment.
Chargenoun
A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
Chargenoun
Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; - called also charre.
Chargenoun
Weight; import; value.
Chargenoun
(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense;
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the price charged for some article or service;
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an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence;
Chargenoun
request for payment of a debt;
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a impetuous rush toward someone or something;
Chargenoun
the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons;
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financial liabilities (such as a tax);
Chargenoun
a person committed to your care;
Chargenoun
attention and management implying responsibility for safety;
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a special assignment that is given to a person or group;
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a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something;
Chargenoun
a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time;
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the swift release of a store of affective force;
Chargenoun
(psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object;
Chargenoun
heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
Chargeverb
to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle;
Chargeverb
blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against;
Chargeverb
demand payment;
Chargeverb
move quickly and violently;
Chargeverb
assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to;
Chargeverb
file a formal charge against;
Chargeverb
make an accusatory claim;
Chargeverb
fill or load to capacity;
Chargeverb
enter a certain amount as a charge;
Chargeverb
cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution;
Chargeverb
give over to another for care or safekeeping;
Chargeverb
pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt;
Chargeverb
lie down on command, of hunting dogs
Chargeverb
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused;
Chargeverb
place a heraldic bearing on;
Chargeverb
provide with munition;
Chargeverb
direct into a position for use;
Chargeverb
impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to;
Chargeverb
instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
Chargeverb
instruct or command with authority;
Chargeverb
attribute responsibility to;
Chargeverb
set or ask for a certain price;
Chargeverb
cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on;
Chargeverb
energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge;
Chargeverb
saturate;
Chargeverb
demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied
Chargeverb
record the cost of something as an amount payable by (someone) or on (an account)
Chargeverb
formally accuse (someone) of something, especially an offence under law
Chargeverb
make an accusation or assertion that
Chargeverb
formally accuse someone of (an offence)
Chargeverb
entrust (someone) with a task as a duty or responsibility
Chargeverb
store electrical energy in (a battery or battery-operated device)
Chargeverb
(of a battery or battery-operated device) receive and store electrical energy.
Chargeverb
load or fill (a container, gun, etc.) to the full or proper extent.
Chargeverb
fill or pervade with a quality or emotion
Chargeverb
rush forward in attack
Chargeverb
rush aggressively towards (someone or something) in attack
Chargeverb
move quickly and forcefully
Chargeverb
place a heraldic bearing on
Chargenoun
a price asked for goods or services
Chargenoun
a financial liability or commitment
Chargenoun
an accusation, typically one formally made against a prisoner brought to trial
Chargenoun
responsibility for the care or control of someone or something
Chargenoun
a person or thing entrusted to the care of someone
Chargenoun
a responsibility or duty assigned to someone
Chargenoun
an official instruction, especially one given by a judge to a jury regarding points of law
Chargenoun
the property of matter that is responsible for electrical phenomena, existing in a positive or negative form.
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the quantity of matter responsible for electrical phenomena carried by a body.
Chargenoun
energy stored chemically for conversion into electricity.
Chargenoun
an act or period of storing electrical energy in a battery.
Chargenoun
a thrill
Chargenoun
a quantity of explosive to be detonated in order to fire a gun or similar weapon
Chargenoun
a headlong rush forward, typically in attack
Chargenoun
a device or bearing placed on a shield or crest.
Chargingnoun
(countable) An act or process of charging (as of a battery).
Chargingnoun
An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
