CHARGE

mission, charge, commission

(noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group; “a confidential mission to London”; “his charge was deliver a message”

care, charge, tutelage, guardianship

(noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety; “he is in the care of a bodyguard”

charge

(noun) an impetuous rush toward someone or something; “the wrestler’s charge carried him past his adversary”; “the battle began with a cavalry charge”

charge, burster, bursting charge, explosive charge

(noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; “this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains”

charge, bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing

(noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

charge, complaint

(noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; “he was arrested on a charge of larceny”

accusation, charge

(noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; “the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving”

commission, charge, direction

(noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; “the judge’s charge to the jury”

charge, billing

(noun) request for payment of a debt; “they submitted their charges at the end of each month”

bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick

(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force; “they got a great bang out of it”; “what a boot!”; “he got a quick rush from injecting heroin”; “he does it for kicks”

cathexis, charge

(noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; “Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge”

charge

(noun) a person committed to your care; “the teacher led her charges across the street”

charge, electric charge

(noun) the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons; “the battery needed a fresh charge”

charge

(noun) the price charged for some article or service; “the admission charge”

charge

(noun) financial liabilities (such as a tax); “the charges against the estate”

charge

(verb) energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; “I need to charge my car battery”

charge

(verb) cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on; “charge a conductor”

blame, charge

(verb) attribute responsibility to; “We blamed the accident on her”; “The tragedy was charged to her inexperience”

charge, saddle, burden

(verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; “He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend”

charge, accuse

(verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; “he charged the director with indifference”

charge

(verb) make an accusatory claim; “The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased”

charge, lodge, file

(verb) file a formal charge against; “The suspect was charged with murdering his wife”

charge, bear down

(verb) to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle; “he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork”

charge, level, point

(verb) direct into a position for use; “point a gun”; “He charged his weapon at me”

charge

(verb) fill or load to capacity; “charge the wagon with hay”

load, charge

(verb) provide (a device) with something necessary; “He loaded his gun carefully”; “load the camera”

charge

(verb) place a heraldic bearing on; “charge all weapons, shields, and banners”

agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up

(verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; “The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks”

charge

(verb) lie down on command, of hunting dogs

tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck

(verb) move quickly and violently; “The car tore down the street”; “He came charging into my office”

charge

(verb) pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt; “Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?”

charge, bill

(verb) demand payment; “Will I get charged for this service?”; “We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights”

charge

(verb) enter a certain amount as a charge; “he charged me $15”

consign, charge

(verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping; “consign your baggage”

commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge

(verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; “After the second episode, she had to be committed”; “he was committed to prison”

appoint, charge

(verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; “He was appointed deputy manager”; “She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)

The amount of money levied for a service.

(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

A forceful forward movement.

An accusation.

Synonym: count

(physics and chemistry) An electric charge.

The scope of someone's responsibility.

Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.

A load or burden; cargo.

An instruction.

(basketball) 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 firearm cartridge.

(heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.

(weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

(farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.

(obsolete) Weight; import; value.

(historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.

(ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

Verb

charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)

to assign a duty or responsibility to

(transitive) to assign (a debit) to an account

(transitive) to pay on account, as by using a credit card

(ambitransitive) to require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)

(possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.

(law) to formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

to impute or ascribe

to call to account; to challenge

(transitive) to place a burden or load on or in

to ornament with or cause to bear

(heraldry) to assume as a bearing

(heraldry) to add to or represent on

(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

(transitive) to cause to take on an electric charge

(transitive) to add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery).

(intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) to gain energy

(intransitive) to move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback

(military, transitive and intransitive) to attack by moving forward quickly in a group

(basketball) to commit a charging foul

(cricket, of a, batsman) 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

(transitive, of a, hunting dog) to lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

Source: Wiktionary

Charge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charged; p. pr. & vb. n. Charging.] Etym: [OF. chargier, F. charger, fr. LL. carricare, fr. L. carrus wagon. Cf. Cargo, Caricature, Cark, and see Car.]

1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke.

2. 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. Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. Josh. xxii. 5. Cromwell, I charge thee, fing away ambition. Shak.

3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. When land shal be charged by any lien. Kent.

4. To fix or demand as a prince; as, he charges two dollars a barrelk for apples.

5. 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.

6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge. No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On native loth and negligence of time. Dryden.

7. 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. If the did that wrong you charge with. Tennyson.

8. 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. Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. Shak.

9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.

10. (Her.)

Definition: 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.

11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.] To charge me to an answer. Shak.

12. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack. Charged our main battle's front. Shak.

Syn.

– To intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach; arraign. See Accuse.

Charge, v. i.

1. To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets. Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron. Glanvill. "Charge for the guns!" he said. Tennyson.

2. To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.

3. To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.

4. To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.

Charge, n. Etym: [F. charge, fr. charger to load. See Charge, v. t., and cf. Cargo, Caricature.]

1. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.

2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.

Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them.

3. Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. Shak.

4. Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. [Obs.] Chaucer.

5. Harm. [Obs.] Chaucer.

6. An order; a mandate or command; an injunction. The king gave cherge concerning Absalom. 2. Sam. xviii. 5.

7. 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.

8. An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.

9. Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.

10. The price demanded for a thing or service.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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. Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. Holland. The charge of the light brigade. Tennyson.

14. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.

15. (Far.)

Definition: A soft of plaster or ointment.

16. (Her.)

Definition: A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.

17. Etym: [Cf. Charre.]

Definition: Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.

18. Weight; import; value. Many suchlike "as's" of great charge. Shak. Back charge. See under Back, a.

– Bursting charge. (a (Mil.) The charge which bursts a shell, etc. (b (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting.

– Charge and discharge (Equity Practice), the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery.

– Charge sheet, the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations.

– To sound the charge, to give the signal for an attack.

Syn.

– Care; custody; trust; management; office; expense; cost; price; assault; attack; onset; injunction; command; order; mandate; instruction; accusation; indictment.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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