charge

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. The amount of money levied for a service.
2. A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
3. A forceful forward movement.
4. An accusation.
5. An accusation.
6. An electric charge.
7. The scope of someone's responsibility.
8. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
9. A load or burden; cargo.
10. An instruction.
11. A mortgage.
12. An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
13. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
14. A measured amount of explosive.
15. An image displayed on an escutcheon.
16. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
17. A sort of plaster or ointment.
18. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
19. (obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
20. An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
21. (slang) Cannabis.

Verb

1. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
2. To assign (a debit) to an account.
3. To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
4. To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
5. To sell (something) at a given price.
6. To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
7. To mortgage (a property).
8. To impute or ascribe.
9. To call to account; to challenge.
10. To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
11. To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
12. To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
13. To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
19. To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
20. To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
21. To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
22. To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/

Etimologia (anglès)

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.