charge

Definitions of charge in various dictionaries:

noun - an impetuous rush toward someone or something

noun - (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense

noun - the price charged for some article or service

noun - the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons

noun - attention and management implying responsibility for safety

noun - a special assignment that is given to a person or group

noun - a person committed to your care

noun - financial liabilities (such as a tax)

noun - (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object

noun - the swift release of a store of affective force

noun - request for payment of a debt

noun - a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something

noun - an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence

noun - heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

noun - a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time

verb - to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle

verb - blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against

verb - demand payment

verb - move quickly and violently

verb - assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to

verb - file a formal charge against

verb - make an accusatory claim

verb - fill or load to capacity

verb - enter a certain amount as a charge

verb - cause to be admitted

verb - give over to another for care or safekeeping

verb - pay with a credit card

verb - lie down on command, of hunting dogs

verb - cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

verb - place a heraldic bearing on

verb - provide (a device) with something necessary

verb - direct into a position for use

verb - impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

verb - instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence

verb - instruct or command with authority

verb - attribute responsibility to

verb - set or ask for a certain price

verb - cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on

verb - energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge

verb - saturate

To impose a duty, responsibility, or obligation on: charged him with the task of watching the young swimmers.

To set or ask (a given amount) as a price: charges ten dollars for a haircut.

To hold financially liable; demand payment from: charged her for the balance due.

To postpone payment on (a purchase) by recording as a debt: paid cash for the stockings but charged the new coat.

To load to capacity; fill: charge a furnace with coal.

To saturate; impregnate: The atmosphere was charged with tension.

To load (a gun or other firearm) with a quantity of explosive: charged the musket with powder.

To instruct or urge authoritatively; command: charged her not to reveal the source of information.

To instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.

To make a claim of wrongdoing against; accuse or blame: The police charged him with car theft.

To put the blame for; attribute or impute: charged the accident to the driver’s inexperience.

To attack violently: The troops charged the enemy line.

Electricity.

To cause formation of a net electric charge on or in (a conductor, for example).

To energize (a storage battery) by passing current through it in the direction opposite to discharge.

To excite; rouse: a speaker who knows how to charge up a crowd.

To direct or put (a weapon) into position for use; level.

To place a bearing on.

To rush forward in or as if in a violent attack: dogs trained to charge at intruders; children charging through the house.

To demand or ask payment: did not charge for the second cup of coffee.

To postpone payment for a purchase.

To consider or record as a loss.

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Expense; cost.

The price asked for something: no charge for window-shopping.

A weight or burden; a load: a freighter relieved of its charge of cargo.

The quantity that a container or apparatus can hold.

A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.

An assigned duty or task; a responsibility: The commission’s charge was to determine the facts.

One that is entrusted to another’s care or management: the baby sitter’s three young charges.

Supervision; management: the scientist who had overall charge of the research project.

Care; custody: a child put in my charge.

An order, a command, or an injunction.

Instruction given by a judge to a jury about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.

A claim of wrongdoing; an accusation: a charge of murder; pleaded not guilty to the charges.

A rushing, forceful attack: repelled the charge of enemy troops; the charge of a herd of elephants.

The command to attack: The bugler sounded the charge.

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Symbol q Physics.

The intrinsic property of matter responsible for all electric phenomena, in particular for the force of the electromagnetic interaction, occurring in two forms arbitrarily designated negative and positive.

A measure of this property.

The net measure of this property possessed by a body or contained in a bounded region of space.

A feeling of pleasant excitement; a thrill: got a real charge out of the movie.

A bearing or figure.

In a position of leadership or supervision: the security agent in charge at the airport.

Under arrest.

verb - to accuse formally