{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ʧɑrʤ" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/charge.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/charge.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "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." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The amount of money levied for a service.\nThere will be a charge of five dollars." }, { "mean": "(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.\nPickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade" }, { "mean": "A forceful forward movement.\n2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC‎: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" }, { "mean": "An accusation.\nSynonym: count", "submean": [ "An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.\ntwo charges of manslaughter", "An accusation by a person or organization.\n2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist. 261a.\nwe'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;\n2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 150:A charge often leveled against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science.\nThat's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust." ] }, { "mean": "(electromagnetism, chemistry) An electric charge." }, { "mean": "The scope of someone's responsibility.\nThe child was in the nanny's charge.\n1848 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 :\nHe 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." }, { "mean": "Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.\nThe child was a charge of the nanny." }, { "mean": "A load or burden; cargo.\nThe ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings." }, { "mean": "An instruction.\nI gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month." }, { "mean": "(basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender." }, { "mean": "(firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge." }, { "mean": "(by extension) A measured amount of explosive.\n1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press: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." }, { "mean": "(heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon." }, { "mean": "(weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.\nto bring a weapon to the charge" }, { "mean": "(farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Weight; import; value.\nc. 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :many suchlike as's of great charge" }, { "mean": "(historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre." }, { "mean": "(ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation." }, { "mean": "(slang, uncountable) Cannabis.\n1966, Alan Bestic, Turn Me on Man (page 58)\nAt about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know.\n1970, Sean O'Callaghan, Drug Addiction in Britain (page 51)\nIt had been a false alarm, and £2 worth of charge (marijuana) had gone out of the window." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To assign a duty or responsibility to.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Joshua 22:5:\nMoses charged you to love the Lord your God.\n1613 (date written), William Shakespeare; , “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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.\nLet's charge this to marketing." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.\nCan I charge my purchase to my credit card?\nCan I charge this purchase?" }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).\nto charge high for goods\nI won't charge you for the wheat.\n2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30: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." }, { "mean": "(dated) To sell at a given price.\nto charge coal at $5 per unit" }, { "mean": "(law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.\nI'm charging you with assault and battery." }, { "mean": "To impute or ascribe.\n1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “ The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. , London: Printed for Jacob Tonson , →OCLC:No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.\n1966, Stringfellow Barr, The Mask of Jove: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." }, { "mean": "To call to account; to challenge.\nc. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :to charge me to an answer" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.\n1693, , “§64”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: A and J Churchill, , →OCLC:\nthe charging of children's memories with rules\n1800, James Hogg, The Mysterious Bride\ner grandfather charged her as she valued her life never to mention that again \n1911, The Encyclopedia Britannica, entry on Moya:\n huge torrent of boiling black mud, charged with blocks of rock and moving with enormous rapidity, rolled like an avalanche down the gorge.", "submean": [ "To ornament with or cause to bear.\nto charge an architectural member with a moulding", "(heraldry) To assume as a bearing.\nHe charges three roses.", "(heraldry) To add to or represent on.\nHe charges his shield with three roses or." ] }, { "mean": "(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.\nCharge your weapons; we're moving up.\nc. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :their battering cannon charged to the mouths", "submean": [ "(transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.\nRubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.", "(transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.\nHe charged the battery overnight.\nDon't forget to charge the drill.\nI charge my phone every night.", "(intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.\nThe battery is still charging: I can't use it yet.\nHis cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever." ] }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.\n2019 February 27, Drachinifel, The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?‎, archived from the original on 3 November 2022, 16:22 from the start: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.", "submean": [ "(military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.\nThe impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.\nc. 1587–1588, , Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , part 1, 2nd edition, London: 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:My Lord, we haue diſcouered the enemieReadie to Charge you with a mightie army.", "(basketball) To commit a charging foul.", "(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." ] }, { "mean": "(transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "charge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. C. 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