charge
 charge (chärj)v. charged, charg·ing, charg·esv. tr.
1. To impose a duty, responsibility, or obligation on:
charged him with the task of watching the young swimmers.
2. To set or ask (a given amount) as a price:
charges ten dollars for a haircut.
3. To hold financially liable; demand payment from:
charged her for the balance due.
4. To postpone payment on (a purchase) by recording as a debt:
paid cash for the stockings but charged the new coat.
5.
a. To load to capacity; fill:
charge a furnace with coal.
b. To saturate; impregnate:
The atmosphere was charged with tension.
6. To load (a gun or other firearm) with a quantity of explosive:
charged the musket with powder.
7. To instruct or urge authoritatively; command:
charged her not to reveal the source of information.
8. Law. To instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.
9. To make a claim of wrongdoing against; accuse or blame:
The police charged him with car theft. Critics charged the writer with a lack of originality.
10. To put the blame for; attribute or impute:
charged the accident to the driver's inexperience.
11. To attack violently:
The troops charged the enemy line.
12. Basketball. To bump or run into (a defender) illegally while in possession of the ball or having just made a pass or shot.
13. Sports.
a. To bump (an opponent) so as to knock off balance or gain control of the ball, as in soccer.
b. To body-check (an opponent) illegally, from behind or after taking more than two strides, as in ice hockey.
14. Electricity.
a. To cause formation of a net electric charge on or in (a conductor, for example).
b. To energize (a storage battery) by passing current through it in the direction opposite to discharge.
15. To excite; rouse:
a speaker who knows how to charge up a crowd.
16. To direct or put (a weapon) into position for use; level.
17. Heraldry. To place a charge on (an escutcheon).v. intr.
1. To rush forward in or as if in a violent attack:
dogs trained to charge at intruders; children charging through the house.
2. To demand or ask payment:
did not charge for the second cup of coffee.
3. To postpone payment for a purchase.
4. Accounting. To consider or record as a loss. Often used with off.n.
1.
a. Expense; cost.
b. The price asked for something:
no charge for window-shopping.
2.
a. A weight or burden; a load:
a freighter relieved of its charge of cargo.
b. The quantity that a container or apparatus can hold.
3. A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.
4. An assigned duty or task; a responsibility:
The commission's charge was to determine the facts.
5. One that is entrusted to another's care or management:
the baby sitter's three young charges.
6.
a. Supervision; management:
the scientist who had overall charge of the research project.
b. Care; custody:
a child put in my charge.
7. An order, command, or injunction.
8. Law. Instruction given by a judge to a jury about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.
9. A claim of wrongdoing; an accusation:
a charge of murder; pleaded not guilty to the charges.
10.
a. A rushing, forceful attack:
repelled the charge of enemy troops; the charge of a herd of elephants.
b. The command to attack:
The bugler sounded the charge.
11. A debt or an entry in an account recording a debt:
Are you paying cash or is this a charge?
12. A financial burden, such as a tax or lien.
13. Symbol q Physics.
a. The intrinsic property of matter responsible for all electric phenomena, in particular for the force of the electromagnetic interaction, occurring in two forms arbitrarily designated negative and positive.
b. A measure of this property.
c. The net measure of this property possessed by a body or contained in a bounded region of space.
14. Informal. A feeling of pleasant excitement; a thrill:
got a real charge out of the movie.
15. Heraldry. Any figure or device represented on the field of an escutcheon.Idioms:in charge
1. In a position of leadership or supervision:
the security agent in charge at the airport.
2. Chiefly British Under arrest.in charge of
Having control over or responsibility for:
You're in charge of making the salad. [Middle English chargen, to load, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus, Gallic type of wagon, of Celtic origin. See kers- in Indo-European Roots.]
Synonyms: charge, imbue, impregnate, permeate, pervade, saturate, suffuse
These verbs mean to cause to be filled with a particular mood or tone: an atmosphere charged with excitement; poetry imbued with lyricism; a spirit impregnated with lofty ideals; optimism that permeates a group; letters pervaded with gloom; a play saturated with imagination; a heart suffused with love. See also synonyms at care
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