4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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
2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care
custody, or management of another; a trust.
Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge
of the clergyman who is set over them
3. Custody or care of any person, thing or place office;
responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand.
--Shak.
4. Heed; care anxiety; trouble. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
5. Harm. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
6. An order a mandate or command; an injunction.
The king gave cherge concerning Absalom. --2. Sam.
xviii. 5.
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.
8. An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation;
indictment; specification of something alleged.
The charge of confounding very different classes of
phenomena. --Whewell.
9. Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents,
taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in
the plural.
10. The price demanded for a thing or service.
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.
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
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.
Never in any other war afore, gave the Romans a
hotter charge upon the enemies. --Holland.
The charge of the light brigade. --Tennyson.
14. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as to bring
a weapon to the charge.
15. (Far.) A soft of plaster or ointment.
16. (Her.) A bearing. See {Bearing}, n., 8.
17. [Cf. {Charre}.] Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig
weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also {charre}.
18. Weight; import; value.
Many suchlike ``as's'' of great charge. --Shak.
{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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Charge \Charge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charged}; 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.
A carte that charged was with hay. --Chaucer.
The charging of children's memories with rules
--Locke.
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.
Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God.
--Josh. xxii.
5.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
--Shak.
3. To lay on impose, or make subject to or liable for
When land shall be charged by any lien. --Kent.
4. To fix or demand as a price; as he charges two dollars a
barrel for apples.
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
6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On
native sloth and negligence of time. --Dryden.
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
If he did that wrong you charge him with
--Tennyson.
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
Their battering cannon charged to the mouths.
--Shak.
9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as to charge an
architectural member with a molding.
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
11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.]
To charge me to an answer. --Shak.
12. To bear down upon to rush upon to attack.
Charged our main battle's front. --Shak.
Syn: To intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach;
arraign. See {Accuse}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Charge \Charge\, v. i.
1. To make an onset or rush; as to charge with fixed
bayonets.
Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron.
--Glanvill.
``Charge for the guns!'' he said --Tennyson.
2. To demand a price; as to charge high for goods.
3. To debit on an account; as to charge for purchases.
4. To squat on its belly and be still -- a command given by
a sportsman to a dog.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
charge
n 1: a impetuous rush toward someone or something "the
wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the
battle began with a cavalry charge"
2: (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense;
"he was arrested on a charge of larceny" [syn: {complaint}]
3: the price charged for some article or service; "the
admission charge"
4: the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body; "the
battery needed a fresh charge" [syn: {electric charge}]
5: attention and management implying responsibility for safety;
"he is under the care of a physician" [syn: {care}, {tutelage},
{guardianship}]
6: a task that has been assigned to a person or group "a
confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a
message" [syn: {mission}, {commission}]
7: a person committed to your care "the teacher led her
charges across the street"
8: a financial liability (such as a tax); "the charges against
the estate"
9: (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}]
10: the release of a store of affective force; "they got a great
bang out of it"; "what a rush!"; "he does it for kicks"
[syn: {bang}, {rush}, {flush}, {thrill}, {kick}]
11: request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges
at the end of each month" [syn: {billing}]
12: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do
something "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: {commission},
{direction}]
13: an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence;
"the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of
drunken driving" [syn: {accusation}]
14: a design or image depicted on a shield [syn: {bearing}, {heraldic
bearing}, {armorial bearing}]
15: 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}]
v 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 e 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: 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},
{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}, {commove}, {excite}, {charge up}]
[ant: {calm}]
15: place a heraldic bearing on of weapons, shields, and
banners
16: provide with munition "He loaded his gun carefully" [syn: {load}]
17: direct into a position for use "point a gun"; "He charged
his weapon at me" [syn: {level}, {point}]
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 (a
conductor, for example)
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"
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