Dictionary Definition
charge
Noun
1 (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong
or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny" [syn: complaint]
2 the price charged for some article or service;
"the admission charge"
3 an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault
or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty
of drunken driving" [syn: accusation]
4 request for payment of a debt; "they submitted
their charges at the end of each month" [syn: billing]
5 a impetuous rush toward someone or something;
"the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle
began with a cavalry charge"
6 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" [syn:
electric
charge]
7 financial liabilities (such as a tax); "the
charges against the estate"
8 a person committed to your care; "the teacher
led her charges across the street"
9 attention and management implying
responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard" [syn:
care, tutelage, guardianship]
10 a special assignment that is given to a person
or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was
deliver a message" [syn: mission, commission]
11 a formal statement of a command or injunction
to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: commission, direction]
12 a quantity of explosive to be set off at one
time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains" [syn:
burster, bursting
charge, explosive
charge]
13 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" [syn:
bang, boot, rush, flush, thrill, kick]
14 (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested
in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a
psychic analog of an electrical charge" [syn: cathexis]
15 heraldry consisting of a design or image
depicted on a shield [syn: bearing, heraldic
bearing, armorial
bearing]
Verb
1 to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in
battle; "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork" [syn:
bear
down]
2 blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or
misbehavior against; "he charged me director with indifference"
[syn: accuse]
3 demand payment; "Will I get charged for this
service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we
stayed only 3 nights" [syn: bill]
4 move quickly and violently; "The car tore down
the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down,
buck]
5 assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to;
"He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with
supervising the creation of a concordance" [syn: appoint]
6 file a formal charge against; "The suspect was
charged with murdering his wife" [syn: lodge, file]
7 make an accusatory claim; "The defense attorney
charged that the jurors were biased"
8 fill or load to capacity; "charge the wagon
with hay" [ant: discharge]
9 enter a certain amount as a charge; "he charged
me $15"
10 cause to be admitted; of persons to an
institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed";
"he was committed to prison" [syn: commit, institutionalize,
institutionalise,
send]
11 give over to another for care or safekeeping;
"consign your baggage" [syn: consign]
12 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?" [ant: pay cash]
13 lie down on command, of hunting dogs
14 cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The
speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn:
agitate, rouse, turn on, commove, excite, charge up]
[ant: calm]
15 place a heraldic bearing on; "charge all
weapons, shields, and banners"
16 provide with munition; "He loaded his gun
carefully" [syn: load]
18 impose a task upon, assign a responsibility
to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the
weekend" [syn: saddle,
burden]
19 instruct (a jury) about the law, its
application, and the weighing of evidence
20 instruct or command with authority; "The
teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"
21 attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the
accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
[syn: blame]
22 set or ask for a certain price; "How much do
you charge for lunch?"; "This fellow charges $100 for a
massage"
23 cause formation of a net electrical charge in
or on; "charge a conductor"
24 energize a battery by passing a current
through it in the direction opposite to discharge; "I need to
charge my car battery"
25 saturate; "The room was charged with tension
and anxiety"
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, i.e. a child to a babysitter.
- A load or burden.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- An instruction.
- An impetuous attack.
- An electric charge.
- 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.
- An image displayed on an escutcheon
Translations
load or burden
amount of money levied for a service
instruction
impetuous attack
electromagnetic state
offensive foul
Verb
- To place a burden upon.
- To assign a duty to.
- I'm charging you with cleaning up the kitchen.
- To formally accuse of a crime.
- I'm charging you with grand theft auto.
- To assign a debit to
an account.
- Let's charge this to marketing.
- To pay using a credit card.
- Can I charge this with my corporate card?
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat, on horseback or both.
- To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- To commit a charging foul.
- (of a batsman) To take a few steps doen 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.
- To ready a firearm
for use
- Charge your weapons, we're moving up
- In the context of "firefighting|transitive": To run water through (a line) so it sprays.
Translations
to assign a duty to
- Czech: pověřit
Related terms
French
Noun
charge- load, charge
Verb form
charge- first-, third-person singular indicative present of charger
- first-, third-person singular subjunctive present of charger
- second-person singular imperative of charger
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Charge or Charged may refer to:
- Charge (physics), the susceptibility of a body to one of the fundamental forces
- More generally in physics, a conserved charge is a conserved quantity related to a symmetry.
- Charge (warfare), a maneuver where soldiers rush towards their enemy to engage in close combat
- Charge (fanfare), a six-note trumpet or bugle piece denoting the call to rush forward
- Charge (basketball), illegal contact by pushing or moving into another player's torso
- Charge (engine), the air and/or fuel mixture being fed to an internal combustion engine
- Charge (youth), an underage person placed under the supervision of a nobleman
- Charge (heraldry), any object depicted on the shield
- Charge (group dynamics), the build up of emotions
- Charge (pen spinning), a pen-spinning trick
- Criminal charge, an indictment before a court by a prosecuting authority
- CHARGE syndrome, a specific set of birth defects in children
- Charge!!, a 2005 album by The Aquabats
- Charged (album), a 2001 album by Nebula
- Charge (Soca album), an album by Machel Montano
It may also refer to:
- Charge card, anything similar to a credit card
- Charged Records, a record label
- Equitable charge, confers a right on the secured party to look to a particular asset in the event of the debtor's default
- Floating charge, a security interest over the assets of a company
- , two classes of diplomatic agents
See also
- Charger (disambiguation)
Bold text extra charge needed
charge in Danish: Ladning
charge in German: Ladung
charge in Modern Greek (1453-): Φορτίο
charge in Spanish: Carga
charge in French: Charge
charge in Croatian: Naboj
charge in Italian: Carica
charge in Hungarian: Töltés
charge in Japanese: チャージ
charge in Portuguese: Carga
charge in Russian: Заряд
charge in Simple English: Charge
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accountability,
accounting for, accounts payable, accounts receivable, accredit, accusal, accusation, accuse, accusing, achievement, action, activate, adjure, administration, admission, admission fee,
admonish, advowson, afflict, agency, agentship, aggravated assault,
aggression, alerion, allegation, allege, allegement, allegiance, amount, amount due, amperage, amphibious attack,
amplify, anchorage, animal charge,
annulet, answerability, anticathexis, application, argent, armed assault, armipotence, armorial
bearings, armory,
arms, arraign, arraignment, arrogation, article, ascription, ask, assail, assailing, assailment, assault, assert, assess, assessment, assign, assignation, assigned task,
assignment, attachment, attack, attribute, attribution, auspices, authority, authorization, authorize, azure, bad debts, bail, bale, bandeau, bang, banzai attack, bar, bar sinister, baton, bear hard upon, bearings, beef, behest, bellyful, bend, bend sinister, benefice, bid, bidding, bill, bill of particulars, billet, bills, black power, blame, blast, blazon, blazonry, blitz, blitzkrieg, boil, bolt, book, boot, bordure, borrowing, bossing, bounden duty, breakthrough, brevet, brim, bring accusation, bring
charges, bring to book, bringing of charges, bringing to book,
broad arrow, brokerage, brute force,
budget, budget items,
bumper, burden, burden of expenditure,
burden with, burdening, burthen, business, busywork, buy on credit,
cadency mark, call of duty, call on, call the signals, call upon,
canton, capacity, care, care of souls, carfare, cargo, carload, carrying charge,
cartload, cathectic
energy, cathexis,
caution, cellarage, censure, chaplet, chare, charge for, charges, charging, charisma, charter, chase, chevron, chief, chits, chock, choke, chore, cite, claim, client, clog, clout, coat of arms, cock, cockatrice, cogence, cogency, command, commission, commissioning, commit, commitment, committal, complain, complaint, complement, compulsion, concern, conduct, congest, connection with,
consign, consignment, contaminate, control, coronet, cost, cost of living,
cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costs, count, counterattack, countercathexis,
counteroffensive,
coup de main, cover charge, cram, credit, crescent, crest, criminate, crippling attack,
cross, cross moline,
crowd, crown, crush, cumber, cumbrance, curacy, cure, custodianship, custody, damage, dash, dash at, dead set at,
deadweight, debit, debt, declare, decree, dedication, deference, delation, delegate, delegated authority,
delegation, demand, denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, dependent, deputation, depute, deputize, derivation from,
descent on, desire concentration, detach, detail, detonate, device, devoir, devolute, devolution, devolve, devolve upon, devolvement, devotion, dictate, difference, differencing, difficulty, dint, direct, direct costs, direction, disadvantage, disbursals, discharge, distributed costs,
diversion,
diversionary attack, dockage, drag, drive, drop, due, dues, duress, duties and
responsibilities, duty,
eagle, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, eject, electric charge, electrify, embarrassment, embassy, empower, empowerment, encourage, encumber, encumbrance, energize, energy, energy charge, enjoin, entrance fee, entrust, entrusting, entrustment, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, errand, escutcheon, ethics, etiology, exact, exaction, exactment, executorship, exequatur, exercise, exhaust, exhort, exhortation, expect, expenditure, expense, expense account,
expenses, expostulate, eye, factorship, falcon, fare, fasten on, fasten upon,
fealty, fee, fell, fess, fess point, field, figure, file, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up,
financial commitment, finger, fire, fire off, fish to fry,
flanch, flank attack,
fleur-de-lis, fling,
floating debt, flower power, flush, fly at, foray, force, force majeure, forcefulness, freight, freight with, fret, frontal attack, fuel, full blast, full force, full
house, full measure, full power, funded debt, fur, fusil, galvanize, garland, gas attack, general
expenses, generate, get
up steam, give an order, give in charge, give the word, glebe, go on tick, governance, government, griffin, guardianship, guarding, guidance, gules, gun, gun for, gyron, hamper, handicap, handling, hands, hang something on, hatchment, head-on attack,
heap, helmet, heraldic device, hire, hit, hold, homage, homework, honor, honor point, hypercathexis, imbue, impalement, impaling, impeach, impeachment, impediment, impedimenta, imperative, implication, imply, impose, impose on, impose upon,
imposition, impregnate, impugn, imputation, impute, incite, inconvenience, incriminate, incubus, inculpate, incumbency, indebtedness, indebtment, indict, indictment, indirect costs,
induce, inescutcheon, infect, infiltration, inflict on,
inflict upon, influence, inform against,
inform on, information, injunction, innuendo, insinuate, insinuation, instruct, instruction, intendance, interpenetrate, invoice, irradiate, issue a command,
issue a writ, jam, jam up,
jam-pack, jet propulsion, job, job of work, jollies, jump off, jurisdiction, keep, keeping, kick, label, labor, labor costs, lade, lading, lash, lawsuit, lay, lay charges, lay on, laying of
charges, legation, let
fly, let off, levy,
liabilities,
liability, license, license fee, lieutenancy, lift, lightning attack, lightning
war, line of duty, lion,
liquid oxygen, live wire, living, load, loading, lodge a complaint,
lodge a plaint, loop in, loyalty, lozenge, lumber, main force, main
strength, make dutiable, make-work, mana, management, mandate, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mass attack, material
costs, matters in hand, maturity, megadeath, metal, might, might and main, mightiness, millstone, ministry, mission, motto, mouthful, move, moxie, mugging, mullet, muscle power, must, name, national debt, need, nombril point, obligation, octofoil, odd job, offense, offensive, office, onset, onslaught, onus, operating costs, operating
expense, oppress,
oppression, or, ordain, order, order about, ordinary, orle, ought, outstanding debt, overburden, overcharge, overfill, overhead, overkill, overload, oversight, overtax, overtaxing, overweight, overweighting, pack, pad, palaetiology, pale, paly, panzer warfare, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, payload, pean, pelt, penalty, penetrate, pensionary, pensioner, pepper, percolate, permeate, persuade, pervade, pheon, pick off, piece of work,
pile, pilotage, pin on, pistol, pizzazz, place, placement, plaint, pledge, plenipotentiary power,
plug, plug in, poison, poop, portage, post, pot, potence, potency, potentiality, potshoot, potshot, power, power of attorney, power
pack, power structure, power struggle, power to act, powerfulness, preach, precept, prefer charges,
prelacy, prepotency, prescript, prescription, presentment, press charges,
press hard upon, pressure, preventive custody,
price, price tag, prime, prime cost, pro rata,
proclaim, procuration, productiveness, productivity, project, prompt, promulgate, pronounce, propellant, propulsion
charge, prorate,
prosecution,
protection,
protective custody, protectorship, protege, proxy, public charge, public debt,
puissance, pull, punch, purpure, purview, push, put, put down, put on, put on
report, put upon, quarter, quartering, quiver, race, radiumize, raid, ram in, rate, reaction propulsion, receive
credit, rectory,
refer, reference to,
regency, regentship, remonstrate, replacement
cost, report, reprehend, reproach, request, require, respect, responsibility, rest hard
upon, riddle, right, rocket propulsion, rose, rule, run against, run at, running, rush, rush at, rush of emotion,
sable, saddle, saddle with, saddling, safe hands, safekeeping, sally, saltire, salvage, satiate, saturate, say the word,
score, scot, scot and lot, scutcheon, self-imposed duty,
send out, sensation,
service, set, shield, shipload, shiver, shock, shock tactics, shoot, shoot at, shoot down,
short, short-circuit,
shot, shudder, sinew, snipe, snootful, solicit, sortie, spread eagle, steam, steam up, step down, step
up, stewardship,
stick for, stiffen,
stint, storage, storm, strength, strike, strong arm, stuff, subject to, subordinary, suffuse, suit, supercharge, superincumbency,
superintendence,
superintendency,
superiority,
superpower, supervision, surcharge, surfeit, surge of emotion,
surveillance,
swindle sheet, switch off, switch on, tab, take a potshot, take credit,
take to task, tariff,
task, taunt with, tax, taxing, teaching, tear, tell, tenne, things to do, thrill, thrust, tilt at, tincture, tingle, tingling, tithe, titillation, toll, top off, torpedo, torse, towage, trailerload, trainload, transfer, transfuse, tremor, tremor of excitement,
tressure, trouble, truckload, true bill, trust, trusteeship, turn off, turn
on, tutelage, twit, uncollectibles,
unfulfilled pledge, unicorn, unit cost, unit
quantity, unprovoked assault, unspoken accusation, urge, vair, validity, vanload, vehemence, veiled accusation,
vert, vicarage, vicarious authority,
vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wad, ward, wardenship, wardship, warhead, warm up, warn, warrant, watch and ward,
wattage, weigh, weigh heavy on, weigh on,
weigh upon, weight,
weight down with, wharfage, white elephant,
wind, wind up, wing, word, work, wreath, yale, yoke
with