What is the meaning of charge?

noun

• An impetuous rush toward someone or something.
  • usage: "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
• Criminal law. ( a pleading describing some wrong or offense)
  • usage: "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"
  • synonyms: complaint
• The price charged for some article or service.
  • usage: "the admission charge"
• The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons.
  • usage: "the battery needed a fresh charge"
  • synonyms: electric charge
• Attention and management implying responsibility for safety.
  • usage: "he is in the care of a bodyguard"
  • synonyms: care, tutelage, guardianship
• A special assignment that is given to a person or group.
  • usage: "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message"
  • synonyms: mission, commission
• A person committed to your care.
  • usage: "the teacher led her charges across the street"
• Financial liabilities (such as a tax. )
  • usage: "the charges against the estate"
• Psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object. (
  • usage: "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"
  • synonyms: cathexis
• The swift release of a store of affective force.
  • usage: "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
  • synonyms: bang, boot, rush, flush, thrill, kick
• Request for payment of a debt.
  • usage: "they submitted their charges at the end of each month"
  • synonyms: billing
• A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something.
  • usage: "the judge's charge to the jury"
  • synonyms: commission, direction
• An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence.
  • usage: "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving"
  • synonyms: accusation
• Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield.
  • synonyms: bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing
• A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.
  • usage: "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains"
  • synonyms: burster, bursting charge, explosive charge

verb

• To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle.
  • usage: "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork"
  • synonyms: bear down
• Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against.
  • usage: "he charged the director with indifference"
  • synonyms: accuse
• Demand payment.
  • usage: "Will I get charged for this service"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"
  • synonyms: bill
• Move quickly and violently.
  • usage: "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
  • synonyms: tear, shoot, shoot down, buck
• Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.
  • usage: "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
  • synonyms: appoint
• File a formal charge against.
  • usage: "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
  • synonyms: lodge, file
• Make an accusatory claim.
  • usage: "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased"
• Fill or load to capacity.
  • usage: "charge the wagon with hay"
• Enter a certain amount as a charge.
  • usage: "he charged me $15"
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send
• Give over to another for care or safekeeping.
  • usage: "consign your baggage"
  • synonyms: consign
• Pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt.
  • usage: "Will you pay cash or charge the purchase"
• Lie down on command, of hunting dogs.
• Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.
  • usage: "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
  • synonyms: agitate, rouse, turn on, commove, excite, charge up
• Place a heraldic bearing on.
  • usage: "charge all weapons, shields, and banners"
• Provide (a device) with something necessary.
  • usage: "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera"
  • synonyms: load
• Direct into a position for use.
  • usage: "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"
  • synonyms: level, point
• Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to.
  • usage: "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
  • synonyms: saddle, burden
• Instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.
• Instruct or command with authority.
  • usage: "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"
• Attribute responsibility to.
  • usage: "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
  • synonyms: blame
• Set or ask for a certain price.
  • usage: "How much do you charge for lunch"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage"
• Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on.
  • usage: "charge a conductor"
• Energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge.
  • usage: "I need to charge my car battery"
• Saturate.
  • usage: "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"