'Charge' definitions:

Definition of 'charge'

(from WordNet)
noun
An impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
noun
(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny" [syn: charge, complaint]
noun
The price charged for some article or service; "the admission 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" [syn: charge, electric charge]
noun
Attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard" [syn: care, charge, tutelage, guardianship]
noun
A special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: mission, charge, commission]
noun
A person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street"
noun
Financial liabilities (such as a tax); "the charges against the estate"
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" [syn: cathexis, charge]
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" [syn: bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick]
noun
Request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month" [syn: charge, billing]
noun
A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: commission, charge, direction]
noun
An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving" [syn: accusation, charge]
noun
Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield [syn: charge, bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing]
noun
A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains" [syn: charge, burster, bursting charge, explosive charge]
verb
To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle; "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork" [syn: charge, bear down]
verb
Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; "he charged the director with indifference" [syn: charge, accuse]
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" [syn: charge, bill]
verb
Move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck]
verb
Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance" [syn: appoint, charge]
verb
File a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife" [syn: charge, lodge, file]
verb
Make an accusatory claim; "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased"
verb
Fill or load to capacity; "charge the wagon with hay" [ant: discharge]
verb
Enter a certain amount as a charge; "he charged me $15"
verb
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, charge]
verb
Give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage" [syn: consign, 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?" [ant: pay cash]
verb
Lie down on command, of hunting dogs
verb
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up] [ant: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize]
verb
Place a heraldic bearing on; "charge all weapons, shields, and banners"
verb
Provide (a device) with something necessary; "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera" [syn: load, charge]
verb
Direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me" [syn: charge, level, point]
verb
Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend" [syn: charge, saddle, burden]
verb
Instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
verb
Instruct or command with authority; "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"
verb
Attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience" [syn: blame, charge]
verb
Set or ask for a certain price; "How much do you charge for lunch?"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage"
verb
Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on; "charge a conductor"
verb
Energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; "I need to charge my car battery"
verb
Saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"

Definition of 'Charge'

From: GCIDE
  • Charge \Charge\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. [1913 Webster]
  • 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Harm. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. An order; a mandate or command; an injunction. [1913 Webster]
  • The king gave cherge concerning Absalom. --2. Sam. xviii. 5. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. [1913 Webster]
  • The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. The price demanded for a thing or service. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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 [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
  • The charge of the light brigade. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 14. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge. [1913 Webster]
  • 15. (Far.) A sort of plaster or ointment. [1913 Webster]
  • 16. (Her.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8. [1913 Webster]
  • 17. [Cf. Charre.] Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre. [1913 Webster]
  • 18. Weight; import; value. [1913 Webster]
  • Many suchlike "as's" of great charge. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Charge'

From: GCIDE
  • Charge \Charge\, v. i.
  • 1. To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets. [1913 Webster]
  • Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
  • "Charge for the guns!" he said. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Charge'

From: GCIDE
  • Charge \Charge\ (ch[aum]rj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charged (ch[aum]rjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Charging.] [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. [1913 Webster]
  • A carte that charged was with hay. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • The charging of children's memories with rules. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. --Josh. xxii. 5. [1913 Webster]
  • Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. [1913 Webster]
  • When land shall be charged by any lien. --Kent. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge. [1913 Webster]
  • No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On native sloth and negligence of time. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • If he did that wrong you charge him with. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. (Her.) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • To charge me to an answer. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 12. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack. [1913 Webster]
  • Charged our main battle's front. --Shak.
  • Syn: To intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach; arraign. See Accuse. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'charge'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Charge'