charge

There will be a charge of five dollars.

The amount of money levied for a service.

Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade

(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

Abou Diaby should have added Arsenal's fourth in the 50th minute after he danced round a host of defenders on a charge towards goal

2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC:

two charges of manslaughter

"Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time."

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:

An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.

That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.

we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;

2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 261a:

A charge often leveled against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science.

2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 150:

An accusation by a person or organization.

(electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.

The child was in the nanny's charge.

He had the key of a closet in which the moneys of this fund were kept, but the outer key of the vault, of which the closet formed part, was in the charge of another person.

1848 April 24, John K. Kane, opinion, United States v. Hutchison, as reported in The Pennsylvania law Journal, June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 http://books.google.com/books?id=Pz-TAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA366&dq=key

The child was a charge of the nanny.

Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.

The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.

I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.

(basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

(firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.

Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

(by extension) A measured amount of explosive.

Comeronym: field

Near-synonym: emblem

(heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.

to bring a weapon to the charge

(weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

(farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.

many suchlike as's of great charge

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

(historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.

(ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

At about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know.

1966, Alan Bestic, Turn Me on Man, page 58:

It had been a false alarm, and £2 worth of charge (marijuana) had gone out of the window.

1970, Sean O'Callaghan, Drug Addiction in Britain, page 51:

en-noun

charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)

(lit. care/concern; this sense is mainly in the plural possessive) gond

托付

someone or something entrusted to one's care

紋章 /纹章

heraldry: image displayed on an escutcheon

From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.


charge

Moses […] charged you to love the Lord your God.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 22:5:

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.

1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

Let's charge this to marketing.

(transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.

to charge high for goods

I won't charge you for the wheat.

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

(transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).

Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?

Can I charge this purchase?

(transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.

to charge coal at $5 per unit

(transitive, dated) To sell (something) at a given price.

I'm charging you with assault and battery.

(transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

(transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).

No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.

1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

He lacked the art of wounding with the sword, and in any case his critics charged that he shrank from steel; but his invective was worthy of Demosthenes and his words drew blood.

1966, Stringfellow Barr, The Mask of Jove:

to charge me to an answer

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

to charge an architectural member with a moulding

(transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.

He charges three roses.

He charges his shield with three roses or.

the charging of children's memories[…] with rules

1693, [John Locke], “§64”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:

[H]er grandfather […] charged her as she valued her life never to mention that again […]

[A] huge torrent of boiling black mud, charged with blocks of rock and moving with enormous rapidity, rolled like an avalanche down the gorge.

1911, The Encyclopedia Britannica, entry on Moya

Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.

(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.

(transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.

He charged the battery overnight.

Don't forget to charge the drill.

I charge my phone every night.

(transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.

The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet.

His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.

(intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.

Charge your weapons; we're moving up.

their battering cannon charged to the mouths

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.

My Lord, we haue diſcouered the enemie
Readie to Charge you with a mightie army.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:

(intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.

(military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.

(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.

Faced with an enemy whose largest gun turrets weigh more than the entire ship, Johnston decides that running is boring, and instead pulls a full 180-degree turn and charges straight back at the attacking forces.

2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 16:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:

(transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

en-verb

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

charges (present singular third-person)
charging (participle present)
charged (participle past)
charged (past)

desc

→ Cantonese: 叉廚 /叉厨 (caa¹ cyu⁴), 叉 (caa¹)

→ Kashubian: czardżowac (United States)

→ Malay: caj, cas

→ Swahili: chaji

اِتَّهَمَ

criminal law, law enforcement: to formally accuse of a crime

yükləmək

to place a burden upon, to assign a duty

yükləmək

to load equipment with material required for its use

هَاجَمَ

military: to attack by moving forward quickly

charger

cricket: to take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball