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34 Definitions of: charge

    1. verb, to set or demand (a price)
    2. verb, to hold financially liable; enter a debit against
    3. verb, to enter or record as an obligation against a person or his account
    4. verb, to accuse or impute a fault to (a person, etc), as formally in a court of law
    5. verb, to command; place a burden upon or assign responsibility to
    6. verb, to make a rush at or sudden attack upon (a person or thing)
    7. verb, to fill (a receptacle) with the proper or appropriate quantity
    8. verb, to cause (an accumulator, capacitor, etc) to take or store electricity or (of an accumulator) to have electricity fed into it
    9. verb, to fill or suffuse or to be filled or suffused with matter by dispersion, solution, or absorption
    10. verb, to fill or suffuse with feeling, emotion, etc
    11. verb, law (of a judge) to address (a jury) authoritatively
    12. verb, to load (a firearm)
    13. verb, to aim (a weapon) in position ready for use
    14. verb, heraldry to paint (a shield, banner, etc) with a charge
    15. verb, (of hunting dogs) to lie down at command
    16. noun, a price charged for some article or service; cost
    17. noun, a financial liability, such as a tax
    18. noun, a debt or a book entry recording it
    19. noun, an accusation or allegation, such as a formal accusation of a crime in law
    20. noun, a) an onrush, attack, or assault b) the call to such an attack in battle
    21. noun, custody or guardianship
    22. noun, a person or thing committed to someone's care
    23. noun, a) a cartridge or shell b) the explosive required to discharge a firearm or other weapon c) an amount of explosive material to be detonated at any one time
    24. noun, the quantity of anything that a receptacle is intended to hold
    25. noun, physics a) the attribute of matter by which it responds to electromagnetic forces responsible for all electrical phenomena, existing in two forms to which the signs negative and positive are arbitrarily assigned b) a similar property of a body or system determined by the extent to which it contains an excess or deficiency of electrons c) a quantity of electricity determined by the product of an electric current and the time for which it flows, measured in coulombs d) the total amount of electricity stored in a capacitor e) the total amount of electricity held in an accumulator, usually measured in ampere-hours. Symbol: q or Q
    26. noun, a load or burden
    27. noun, a duty or responsibility; control
    28. noun, a command, injunction, or order
    29. noun, slang a thrill
    30. noun, law the address made by a judge to the jury at the conclusion of the evidence
    31. noun, heraldry a design, device, or image depicted on heraldic arms
    32. noun, the solid propellant used in rockets, sometimes including the inhibitor
    33. noun, in charge in command
    34. noun, in charge of a) having responsibility for b) under the care of
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