charge
verb
- increase energy stored in a battery
- advance together rapidly, move quickly
- pay with credit
- asking price
- to be in charge of something, have a responsibility or role
- allege (an utterance or complement clause)
- to supply with (especially, but not limited to, electricity)
noun
- military tactics that implies a rapid frontal advance towards the enemy
- underage person under the supervision of a nobleman
- electrical charge augmentation
- making of a criminal accusation
- conserved property of an elementary particle
- act or process of asking a price be paid, selling a commodity
- act or process of being in charge of something, having a responsibility or role
- act or process of advancing (together) rapidly, moving quickly
- act or process of buying on credit
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/ / [ˈt͡ʃʰɑːd͡ʒ] / /ˈt͡ʃäːd͡ʒ/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós Proto-Celtic *karros Gaulish *karrosbor. Late Latin carrus Late Latin -ico Late Latin carricō Late Latin carricāre Old French chargierder. Middle English chargen English charge From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
“There will be a charge of five dollars.”
“There is a cancellation charge if you withdraw your order.”
- An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
“Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade”
- A forceful forward movement.
“Abou Diaby should have added Arsenal's fourth in the 50th minute after he danced round a host of defenders on a charge towards goal”
- An accusation.
“two charges of manslaughter”
“"Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time."”
- An accusation.
“That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.”
“we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;”
- An electric charge.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
“The child was in the nanny's charge.”
“He had the key of a closet in which the moneys of this fund were kept, but the outer key of the vault, of which the closet formed part, was in the charge of another person.”
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
“The child was a charge of the nanny.”
- A load or burden; cargo.
“The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.”
- An instruction.
“I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.”
- A mortgage.
- An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- A measured amount of explosive.
“Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that.”
- An image displayed on an escutcheon.
“Near-synonym: emblem”
- A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
“to bring a weapon to the charge”
- A sort of plaster or ointment.
- Weight; import; value.
“many suchlike as's of great charge”
- A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
- An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- Cannabis.
“At about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know.”
“It had been a false alarm, and £2 worth of charge (marijuana) had gone out of the window.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós Proto-Celtic *karros Gaulish *karrosbor. Late Latin carrus Late Latin -ico Late Latin carricō Late Latin carricāre Old French chargierder. Middle English chargen English charge From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.
- To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
“Moses […] charged you to love the Lord your God.”
“Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.”
- To assign (a debit) to an account.
“Let's charge this to marketing.”
- To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
“to charge high for goods”
“I won't charge you for the wheat.”
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
“Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?”
“Can I charge this purchase?”
- To sell (something) at a given price.
“to charge coal at $5 per unit”
- To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
“I'm charging you with assault and battery.”
- To mortgage (a property).
- To impute or ascribe.
“No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.”
“He lacked the art of wounding with the sword, and in any case his critics charged that he shrank from steel; but his invective was worthy of Demosthenes and his words drew blood.”
- To call to account; to challenge.
“to charge me to an answer”
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
“the charging of children's memories[…] with rules”
“[H]er grandfather […] charged her as she valued her life never to mention that again […]”
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
“to charge an architectural member with a moulding”
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
“He charges three roses.”
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
“He charges his shield with three roses or.”
“Within a blue garter inscribed "Great Northern Railway Ireland" is a shield, on which are marshalled the arms of the principal towns in the company's area. The shield is divided quarterly with the arms of Dublin in the first quarter, Londonderry in the second quarter, Enniskillen in the third, and Belfast in the fourth; and overall is a gold inescutcheon (a small shield placed in the centre of the large shield) charged with the red left hand of Ulster.”
- 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.
“Charge your weapons; we're moving up.”
“their battering cannon charged to the mouths”
- 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.
“Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.”
- 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.
“He charged the battery overnight.”
“Don't forget to charge the drill.”
- 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.
“The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet.”
“His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.”
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
“Faced with an enemy whose largest gun turrets weigh more than the entire ship, Johnston decides that running is boring, and instead pulls a full 180-degree turn and charges straight back at the attacking forces.”
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
“The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.”
“My Lord, we haue diſcouered the enemie Readie to Charge you with a mightie army.”
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)