Charged (album)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge
"Charged particles"
"A charged battery"
(2) Fraught with great emotion
"An atmosphere charged with excitement"
"An emotionally charged speech"
(3) Capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy
"The highly charged issue of abortion"
(4) Supplied with carbon dioxide
WiktionaryText
Etymology
< < < < ; see car.
Noun
- responsibility.
- The child was in the nanny's charge.
- 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.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- A charge of 5 dollars.
- An instruction.
- I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
- A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- Pickett died leading his famous charge.
- An accusation.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 261a.
- we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;
- That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 261a.
- An electric charge.
- An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
- An image displayed on an escutcheon.
Verb
- To place a burden upon.
- To assign a duty to.
- I'm charging you with cleaning up the kitchen.
- To formally accuse of a crime.
- I'm charging you with grand theft auto.
- To assign a debit to an account.
- Let's charge this to marketing.
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- Can I charge my Amazon purchase to Paypal?
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
- Don't forget to charge the drill.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat, on horseback or both.
- To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- To commit a charging foul.
- (of a batsman) To take a few steps doen the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- 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
Related terms
- cargo
- cark
- carack
- caricature
- discharge
- surcharge
Noun
- load, burden
- cargo, freight
- responsibility, charge
- charge
- charge
- costs, expenses
Verb form
charge
- first-, third-person singular indicative present of charger
- first-, third-person singular subjunctive present of charger
- second-person singular imperative of charger