charge

See also: Charge, chargé, and Chargé

charge - English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/
  • (General American) IPA: /t͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒ/

Noun

charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)

  1. The amount of money levied for a service.
    • There will be a charge of five dollars.
  2. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
  3. A forceful forward movement.
  4. An accusation.
    1. An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
      • two charges of manslaughter
    2. An accusation by a person or organization.
      • That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
  5. (electromagnetism, chemistry) An electric charge.
  6. The scope of someone's responsibility.
    • The child was in the nanny's charge.
  7. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
    • The child was a charge of the nanny.
  8. A load or burden; cargo.
    • The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
  9. An instruction.
    • I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
  10. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
  11. (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
  12. (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
  13. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
  14. (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
    • to bring a weapon to the charge
  15. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
  16. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
  17. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
  18. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
  19. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.

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Translations

  • Chinese:
  • Finnish: tunnus (fi), tunnuskuvio, vaakuna (fi), logo (fi)
  • French: meuble (fr) m
  • Hungarian: címerábra
  • Japanese:  (ja) (もん, mon)
  • Korean: 문양(文樣) (ko) (munyang)
  • Macedonian: чесна фигу́ра f (česna figúra)
  • Polish: figura herbowa f
  • Spanish: figura (es) f, cargo (es) m
  • Swedish: sköldemärke (sv) n

Verb

charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)

  1. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
  2. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
    • Let's charge this to marketing.
  3. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
    • Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?
    • Can I charge this purchase?
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
    • to charge high for goods
    • I won't charge you for the wheat.
  5. (dated) To sell at a given price.
    • to charge coal at $5 per unit
  6. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
    • I'm charging you with assault and battery.
  7. To impute or ascribe.
  8. To call to account; to challenge.
  9. (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
    1. To ornament with or cause to bear.
      • to charge an architectural member with a moulding
    2. (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
      • He charges three roses.
    3. (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
      • He charges his shield with three roses or.
  10. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
    • Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
    1. (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
      • Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
    2. (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
      • He charged the battery overnight.
      • Don't forget to charge the drill.
      • I charge my phone every night.
    3. (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
      • The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet.
      • His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.
  11. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
    1. (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
      • The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.
    2. (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
    3. (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
  12. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

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Translations

  • Azerbaijani: enerji yığmaq, dolmaq
  • Belarusian: зараджа́цца impf (zaradžácca), зарадзі́цца pf (zaradzícca)
  • Bulgarian: заре́ждам се (bg) impf (zaréždam se), заредя́ се pf (zaredjá se)
  • Danish: lade (da)
  • Finnish: latautua (fi)
  • Galician: cargar (gl)
  • Georgian: იმუხტება (imuxṭeba), იტენება (iṭeneba)
  • German: laden (de), aufladen (de)
  • Hebrew: נטען (nit’án)
  • Hungarian: töltődik, feltöltődik
  • Italian: ricaricare (it)
  • Korean: 충전되다 (chungjeondoeda)
  • Maori: whakakaha
  • Polish: ładować się (pl) impf, naładować się (pl) pf
  • Russian: заряжа́ться (ru) impf (zarjažátʹsja), заряди́ться (ru) pf (zarjadítʹsja)
  • Portuguese: carregar (pt)
  • Romanian: încărca (ro)
  • Spanish: cargar (es)
  • Swahili: chaji (sw)
  • Ukrainian: заряджа́тися impf (zarjadžátysja), заряди́тися pf (zarjadýtysja)
  • Vietnamese: nạp điện (vi)
  • French: charger (fr), s'élancer (fr)

Anagrams

charge - Dutch

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈʃɑr.ʒə/
  • Hyphenation: char‧ge

Noun

charge f (plural charges)

  1. A charge (fast ground attack).

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Descendants

  • Afrikaans: sarsie

charge - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ʃaʁʒ/

Noun

charge f (plural charges)

  1. load, burden
    • charge pesanteheavy load
  2. cargo, freight
    • La charge de ce bateau est de cinquante tonneaux.The freight of this boat is fifty tons.
  3. responsibility, charge
    • J'ai la charge de vous dire que...I have the responsibility to tell you that...
  4. (law) charge
    • Ce fait constitue une charge très grave contre le prévenu.This fact constitutes a very serious charge against the accused.
  5. (military) charge
    • une charge massive contre les positions allemandesa massive charge against the German positions
  6. caricature, comic exaggeration
  7. (physics) charge
  8. (heraldry) charge
  9. (in the plural) costs, expenses

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Verb

charge

  1. inflection of charger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

charge - Middle English

Verb

charge

  1. first-person singular present indicative of chargen

charge - Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃaʁ.ʒi/ [ˈʃaɦ.ʒi]

Noun

charge f (plural charges)

  1. (Brazil) cartoon (satire of public figures)
Meaning and Definition of charge
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