Charge can mean electricity received, as in the shock you’d feel if you put your finger in a wall socket. Charge is also what you do when you use your credit card instead of cash. Shopping can be electrifying too.
To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
Noun
a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message"
Noun
attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"
Noun
a impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler''s charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
Noun
a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains"
Noun
heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
Noun
(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"
Noun
an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving"
Noun
a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge''s charge to the jury"
Noun
request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month"
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"
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"
Noun
a person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street"
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"
Noun
the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge"
Noun
financial liabilities (such as a tax); "the charges against the estate"
Verb
saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"
Verb
energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; "I need to charge my car battery"
Verb
cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on; "charge a conductor"
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set or ask for a certain price; "How much do you charge for lunch?"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage"
Verb
attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
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instruct or command with authority; "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"
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instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
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impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
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blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; "he charged me director with indifference"
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make an accusatory claim; "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased"
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file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
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to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle; "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork"
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direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"
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fill or load to capacity; "charge the wagon with hay"
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provide with munition; "He loaded his gun carefully"
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place a heraldic bearing on; "charge all weapons, shields, and banners"
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cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
Verb
lie down on command, of hunting dogs
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move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
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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?"
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demand payment; "Will I get charged for this service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"
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enter a certain amount as a charge; "he charged me $15"
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give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage"
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cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
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assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
v. t.
To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load;
to fill.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
v. t.
To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars
a barrel for apples.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an
architectural member with a molding.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To call to account; to challenge.
v. t.
To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
v. i.
To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed
bayonets.
v. i.
To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.
v. i.
To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.
v. i.
To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given
by a sportsman to a dog.
v. t.
A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
v. t.
A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care,
custody, or management of another; a trust.
v. t.
Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office;
responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
v. t.
Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.
v. t.
Harm.
v. t.
An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation;
indictment; specification of something alleged.
v. t.
Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents,
taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.
v. t.
The price demanded for a thing or service.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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
v. t.
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.
v. t.
A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring
a weapon to the charge.
v. t.
A soft of plaster or ointment.
v. t.
A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
n.
Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy
pounds; -- called also charre.
n.
Weight; import; value.
Charge
A carte that charged was with hay.
The charging of children's memories with rules.2.
Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fing away ambition.3.
When land shal be charged by any lien.4.
No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On native loth and negligence of time.7.
If the did that wrong you charge with.8.
Their battering cannon charged to the mouths.9.
To charge me to an answer.12.
Charged our main battle's front.
Charge
Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron.
"Charge for the guns!" he said.2.
Charge
'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand.4.
The king gave cherge concerning Absalom.7.
The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena.9.
Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies.
The charge of the light brigade.14.
Many suchlike "as's" of great charge.
To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
To make an onset or rush;
A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
Usage Examples
I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.
I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.
I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.
Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.
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Other Usage ExamplesCharge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.
I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.
I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.
I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.
I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!
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