charge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: charges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: charges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: charging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: charged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: charged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The amount of money levied for a service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There will be a charge of five dollars.
There is a cancellation charge if you withdraw your order.
gloss: An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade
gloss: A forceful forward movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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
gloss: An accusation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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."
gloss: An accusation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;
A charge often leveled against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science.
gloss: An electric charge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The scope of someone's responsibility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The child was a charge of the nanny.
gloss: A load or burden; cargo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
gloss: An instruction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
gloss: A mortgage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A measured amount of explosive.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: An image displayed on an escutcheon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: emblem
gloss: A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to bring a weapon to the charge
gloss: A sort of plaster or ointment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Weight; import; value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: many suchlike as's of great charge
gloss: A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Cannabis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
pos: verb
examples: Moses […] charged you to love the Lord your God.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
gloss: To assign (a debit) to an account.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's charge this to marketing.
gloss: To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to charge high for goods
I won't charge you for the wheat.
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
gloss: To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?
Can I charge this purchase?
gloss: To sell (something) at a given price.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: to charge coal at $5 per unit
gloss: To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'm charging you with assault and battery.
gloss: To mortgage (a property).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To impute or ascribe.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To call to account; to challenge.
pos: verb
examples: to charge me to an answer
gloss: To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: the charging of children's memories[…] with rules
[H]er grandfather […] charged her as she valued her life never to mention that again […]
[A] huge torrent of boiling black mud, charged with blocks of rock and moving with enormous rapidity, rolled like an avalanche down the gorge.
gloss: To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to charge an architectural member with a moulding
gloss: To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He charges three roses.
gloss: To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
their battering cannon charged to the mouths
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He charged the battery overnight.
Don't forget to charge the drill.
I charge my phone every night.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet.
His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.
gloss: To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.
My Lord, we haue diſcouered the enemie
Readie to Charge you with a mightie army.
gloss: To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: carack
cargo
caricature
cark
discharge
surcharge
Derived words: 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
chargemaster
charge master
charge nurse
charge-off
charge of quarters
chargeous
charge plate
chargepoint
charge sheet
chargesheet
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
point charge
polarization 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
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: нападе́ние
roman: napadénie
lang: Catalan
word: càrrega
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 衝打 /冲打
roman: chōngdǎ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 衝鋒 /冲锋
roman: chōngfēng
lang: Czech
word: zteč
lang: Czech
word: výpad
lang: Danish
word: angreb
lang: Dutch
word: charge
lang: Dutch
word: stormaanval
lang: Esperanto
word: kuratako
lang: Esperanto
word: sturmo
lang: Esperanto
word: rajdatako
lang: Finnish
word: rynnäkkö
lang: French
word: charge
lang: German
word: Sturmangriff
lang: Greek
word: επίθεση
roman: epíthesi
lang: Hindi
word: धावा
roman: dhāvā
lang: Hungarian
word: támadás
lang: Hungarian
word: roham
lang: Irish
word: ruathar
lang: Italian
word: carico
lang: Japanese
word: 突撃
roman: totsugeki
lang: Korean
word: 돌격
roman: dolgyeok
lang: Macedonian
word: јуриш
roman: juriš
lang: Māori
word: huaki
lang: Māori
word: kōkiri
lang: Māori
word: āpititū
lang: Norwegian
word: angrep
lang: Polish
word: szarża
lang: Portuguese
word: carga
lang: Russian
word: нападе́ние
roman: napadénije
lang: Russian
word: ата́ка
roman: atáka
lang: Arabic
word: تُهْمَة
roman: tuhma
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ittiham
lang: Belarusian
word: абвінава́чванне
roman: abvinaváčvannje
lang: Belarusian
word: абвінава́чанне
roman: abvinaváčannje
lang: Bulgarian
word: обвине́ние
roman: obvinénie
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 指控
roman: zhǐkòng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 起诉
roman: qǐsù
lang: Czech
word: obvinění
lang: Danish
word: beskyldning
lang: Danish
word: søgsmål
lang: Esperanto
word: akuzo
lang: Esperanto
word: kulpigo
lang: Finnish
word: syytös
lang: Finnish
word: syyte
lang: French
word: chef d’accusation
lang: French
word: chef d’inculpation
lang: Greek
word: κατηγορία
roman: katigoría
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἔγκλημα
roman: énklēma
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κατηγορία
roman: katēgoría
lang: Hindi
word: आरोप
roman: ārop
lang: Hindi
word: अभियोग
roman: abhiyog
lang: Hungarian
word: vád
lang: Hungarian
word: vádpont
lang: Hungarian
word: vádirat
lang: Hungarian
word: vádemelés
lang: Hungarian
word: eljárás
lang: Indonesian
word: tuduhan
lang: Italian
word: accusa
lang: Italian
word: imputazione
lang: Japanese
word: 非難
roman: hinan
lang: Korean
word: 비난
roman: binan
lang: Macedonian
word: обвинение
roman: obvinenie
lang: Malay
word: pertuduhan
lang: Māori
word: heitara
lang: Māori
word: whakapae
lang: Māori
word: whakapā hē
lang: Māori
word: hāmene
lang: Norwegian
word: beskyldning
lang: Norwegian
word: søksmål
lang: Polish
word: oskarżenie
lang: Portuguese
word: acusação
lang: Portuguese
word: denúncia
lang: Romanian
word: acuzare
lang: Romanian
word: inculpare
lang: Russian
word: обвине́ние
roman: obvinénije
lang: Slovak
word: obvinenie
lang: Spanish
word: cargo
lang: Spanish
word: acusación
lang: Swahili
word: shtaka
lang: Swedish
word: anklagelse
lang: Swedish
word: beskyllning
lang: Swedish
word: åtal
lang: Tagalog
word: sakdal
lang: Ukrainian
word: звинува́чення
roman: zvynuváčennja
lang: Welsh
word: cyhuddiad
lang: Welsh
word: achwyniad
lang: Albanian
word: ngarko
lang: Azerbaijani
word: həvalə etmək
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tapşırmaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: üzərinə qoymaq
lang: Bulgarian
word: възла́гам
roman: vǎzlágam
lang: Bulgarian
word: поверя́вам
roman: poverjávam
lang: Catalan
word: encarregar
lang: Czech
word: pověřit
lang: Danish
word: give opgave
lang: Dutch
word: opdragen
lang: Finnish
word: määrätä
lang: Finnish
word: käskeä
lang: French
word: charger
lang: German
word: beauftragen
lang: German
word: verpflichten
lang: German
word: zuweisen
lang: German
word: anweisen
lang: Hungarian
word: megbíz
lang: Hungarian
word: rábíz
lang: Hungarian
word: kiró
lang: Hungarian
word: kioszt
lang: Italian
word: incaricare
lang: Macedonian
word: дове́рува
roman: dovéruva
lang: Macedonian
word: за́дава
roman: zádava
lang: Norwegian
word: gi oppgave
lang: Occitan
word: encargar
lang: Portuguese
word: encarregar
lang: Russian
word: возлага́ть
roman: vozlagátʹ
lang: Russian
word: возложи́ть
roman: vozložítʹ
lang: Russian
word: вменя́ть в обя́занность
roman: vmenjátʹ v objázannostʹ
lang: Russian
word: вмени́ть в обя́занность
roman: vmenítʹ v objázannostʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: поклада́ти відповіда́льність
roman: pokladáty vidpovidálʹnistʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: доруча́ти
roman: doručáty
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yükləmək
lang: Bulgarian
word: натова́рвам
roman: natovárvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: обременя́вам
roman: obremenjávam
lang: Danish
word: belaste
lang: Danish
word: bebyrde
lang: Dutch
word: belasten
lang: Finnish
word: kuormata
lang: Finnish
word: sälyttää
lang: Finnish
word: nimittää
lang: French
word: armer
lang: German
word: belasten
lang: Hungarian
word: megterhel
lang: Hungarian
word: megrak
lang: Hungarian
word: megpakol
lang: Irish
word: luchtaigh
lang: Italian
word: accollare
lang: Macedonian
word: то́вари
roman: tóvari
lang: Macedonian
word: обреме́нува
roman: obreménuva
lang: Norwegian
word: belaste
lang: Norwegian
word: bebyrde
lang: Russian
word: обременя́ть
roman: obremenjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: обремени́ть
roman: obremenítʹ
lang: Russian
word: загружа́ть
roman: zagružátʹ
lang: Russian
word: загрузи́ть
roman: zagruzítʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: обтя́жувати
roman: obtjážuvaty
lang: Azerbaijani
word: doldurmaq
lang: Belarusian
word: зараджа́ць
roman: zaradžácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: зарадзі́ць
roman: zaradzícʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: пъ́лня
roman: pǎ́lnja
lang: Danish
word: lade
lang: Esperanto
word: ŝarĝi
lang: Finnish
word: ladata
lang: Friulian
word: cjariâ
lang: German
word: laden
lang: German
word: beladen
lang: German
word: füllen
lang: German
word: befüllen
lang: Hungarian
word: feltölt
lang: Hungarian
word: tölt
lang: Italian
word: caricare
lang: Khmer
word: ផ្ទុក
roman: phtuk
lang: Latvian
word: pildīt
lang: Latvian
word: uzpildīt
lang: Latvian
word: kraut
lang: Latvian
word: iekraut
lang: Macedonian
word: полни
roman: polni
lang: Polish
word: ładować
lang: Polish
word: naładować
lang: Portuguese
word: carregar
lang: Romanian
word: încărca
lang: Russian
word: заряжа́ть
roman: zarjažátʹ
lang: Russian
word: заряди́ть
roman: zarjadítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: cargar
lang: Swedish
word: ladda
lang: Ukrainian
word: заряджа́ти
roman: zarjadžáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: заряди́ти
roman: zarjadýty
lang: Vietnamese
word: nạp
lang: Danish
word: storme
lang: Finnish
word: hyökätä
lang: Finnish
word: rynnistää
lang: Finnish
word: rynnätä
lang: German
word: stürmen
lang: German
word: vorwärtsstürmen
lang: German
word: vorwärts pressen
lang: Hungarian
word: kiront
lang: Hungarian
word: kirohan
lang: Hungarian
word: beront
lang: Hungarian
word: berohan
lang: Hungarian
word: rohan
lang: Hungarian
word: száguld
lang: Macedonian
word: јуриша
roman: juriša
lang: Macedonian
word: јурнува
roman: jurnuva
lang: Middle English
word: launcen
lang: Middle English
word: launchen
lang: Middle English
word: swyngen
lang: Spanish
word: arremeter contra
lang: Spanish
word: embestir
lang: Spanish
word: acometer