charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: charges
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: There will be a charge of five dollars.
glosses: The amount of money levied for a service.
examples: text: Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
examples: text: 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
ref: 2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC:
glosses: A forceful forward movement.
examples: text: two charges of manslaughter
text: "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."
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:
synonyms: count
glosses: An accusation.
An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
examples: text: That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
text: we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 261a:
text: A charge often leveled against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science.
ref: 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 150:
synonyms: count
glosses: An accusation.
An accusation by a person or organization.
topics: chemistry
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electric charge.
examples: text: The child was in the nanny's charge.
text: 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.
ref: 1848 April 24, John K. Kane, opinion, United States v. Hutchison, as reported in The Pennsylvania law Journal, June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 http://books.google.com/books?id=Pz-TAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA366&dq=key
glosses: The scope of someone's responsibility.
examples: text: The child was a charge of the nanny.
glosses: Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
examples: text: The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
glosses: A load or burden; cargo.
examples: text: I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
glosses: An instruction.
topics: law
property
glosses: A mortgage.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A measured amount of explosive.
examples: Near-synonym: emblem
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
hypernyms: bearing
related: word: field
glosses: An image displayed on an escutcheon.
examples: text: to bring a weapon to the charge
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
topics: farriery
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A sort of plaster or ointment.
examples: text: many suchlike as's of great charge
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: Weight; import; value.
glosses: A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
examples: text: At about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know.
ref: 1966, Alan Bestic, Turn Me on Man, page 58:
text: It had been a false alarm, and £2 worth of charge (marijuana) had gone out of the window.
ref: 1970, Sean O'Callaghan, Drug Addiction in Britain, page 51:
glosses: Cannabis.
Derived terms: access charge
Allen charge
apparent charge
banzai charge
bayonet charge
blasting charge
bluff charge
carrying charge
charge account
chargeback
chargecard
charge card
charge carrier
charge conjugation
charge-coupled device
charge density
charge description master
chargeful
charge hand
chargehouse
chargeless
chargeling
chargeman
charge master
chargemaster
charge nurse
charge-off
charge of quarters
chargeous
charge plate
chargepoint
chargesheet
charge sheet
chargeship
charge storage
chargino
chargon
color charge
colour charge
commit charge
congestion charge
contingent charge
countercharge
cover charge
deferred charge
depth charge
dynamite charge
electric charge
elementary charge
finance charge
fixed charge
floating charge
forecharge
formal charge
free of charge
get a charge from
get a charge out of
green charge
handling charge
Highland charge
holding charge
hypercharge
in charge
isocharge
large charge
late charge
lathicharge
lead the charge
line charge
microcharge
midcharge
miscellaneous charge order
mischarge
multicharge
negative charge
nonrecurring charge
nuclear charge
partial charge
pastoral charge
Pickett's charge
Pickett's Charge
Planck charge
pole charge
positive charge
precharge
press charges
proof charge
public charge
redemption charge
rentcharge
resort charge
reverse charge
reverse the charge
sales charge
satchel charge
service charge
shaped charge
space charge
specific charge
take charge
trickle charge
upcharge
user charge