charge

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (non-rhotic) (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/, [ˈt͡ʃʰɑːd͡ʒ] (Australian) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃäːd͡ʒ/, [ˈt͡ʃʰäːd͡ʒ]; /ˈt͡ʃɐːd͡ʒ/, [ˈt͡ʃʰɐ̞ːd͡ʒ] (rhotic) (General American) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒ/, [ˈt͡ʃʰɑɹd͡ʒ] Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ Hyphenation: charge === Noun === charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges) The amount of money levied for a service. (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat. A forceful forward movement. An accusation. Synonym: count An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of. An accusation by a person or organization. (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge. The scope of someone's responsibility. 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 [2]: Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher. A load or burden; cargo. An instruction. (property law) A mortgage. (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. (by extension) A measured amount of explosive. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon. Hypernym: bearing Comeronym: field Near-synonym: emblem (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment. (obsolete) Weight; import; value. (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. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Malay: caj (fee) → Malay: cas (electrical charge) ==== Translations ==== === Verb === charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged) To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account. (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.). Synonym: assess (law) (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card. (transitive, dated) To sell (something) at a given price. (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime. Synonyms: criminate, inculpate, indict; see also Thesaurus:incriminate (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property). To impute or ascribe. Synonyms: attribute, chalk up to, put down to; see also Thesaurus:ascribe To call to account; to challenge. (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in. 1911, The Encyclopedia Britannica, entry on Moya: [A] huge torrent of boiling black mud, charged with blocks of rock and moving with enormous rapidity, rolled like an avalanche down the gorge. To ornament with or cause to bear. (heraldry) To assume as a bearing. (heraldry) To add to or represent on. (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. (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet. (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy. (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. (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. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Cantonese: 叉廚 / 叉厨 (caa1 cyu4), 叉 (caa1) → Dutch: chargen → Kashubian: czardżowac (United States) → Malay: caj, cas → Sranan Tongo: tyars → Swahili: chaji → Thai: ชาร์จ (cháat) ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “charge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “charge”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === Creagh == Dutch == === Alternative forms === chargie (obsolete) === Etymology === Borrowed from Middle French charge. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃɑr.ʒə/ Hyphenation: char‧ge === Noun === charge f (plural charges, no diminutive) a charge (fast ground attack) ==== Derived terms ==== cavaleriecharge ==== Related terms ==== chargeren ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: sarsie == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French charge, from Old French charge, carge, equivalent to a deverbal from charger. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃaʁʒ/ === Noun === charge f (plural charges) load, burden charge pesante ― heavy load cargo, freight La charge de ce bateau est de cinquante tonneaux. ― The freight of this boat is fifty tons. responsibility, charge J'ai la charge de vous dire que... ― I have the responsibility to tell you that... (law) charge Ce fait constitue une charge très grave contre le prévenu. ― This fact constitutes a very serious charge against the accused. (military) charge une charge massive contre les positions allemandes ― a massive charge against the German positions caricature, comic exaggeration (physics) charge (heraldry) charge (in the plural) costs, expenses ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Bulgarian: шарж (šarž) → German: Charge → Czech: šarža → Slovak: šarža → Slovene: šarža → Brazilian Portuguese: charge → Romanian: șarjă → Russian: шарж (šarž) → Turkish: şarj, şarz (misspelling) === Verb === charge inflection of charger: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “charge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === gâcher == Middle English == === Verb === charge first-person singular present indicative of chargen == Portuguese == === Etymology === Borrowed from French charge. === Pronunciation === === Noun === charge f (plural charges) (Brazil) cartoon (satire of public figures) Synonym: caricatura === References === === Further reading === charge on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt “charge”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026