Main entry: mission, charge, commission
Definition: a special assignment that is given to a person or group
Usage: a confidential mission to London; his charge was deliver a message
Main entry: charge, care, guardianship, tutelage
Definition: attention and management implying responsibility for safety
Usage: he is in the care of a bodyguard
Main entry: charge
Definition: an impetuous rush toward someone or something
Usage: the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary; the battle began with a cavalry charge
Main entry: charge, burster, bursting charge, explosive charge
Definition: a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
Usage: this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains
Main entry: charge, bearing, armorial bearing, heraldic bearing
Definition: heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
Definition: (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
Usage: he was arrested on a charge of larceny
Main entry: charge, accusation
Definition: an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
Usage: the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving
Main entry: charge, commission, direction
Definition: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
Usage: the judge's charge to the jury
Definition: request for payment of a debt
Usage: they submitted their charges at the end of each month
Main entry: flush, kick, boot, charge, bang, thrill, rush
Definition: 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
Definition: (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
Main entry: charge
Definition: a person committed to your care
Usage: the teacher led her charges across the street
Main entry: charge, electric charge
Definition: 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
Main entry: charge
Definition: the price charged for some article or service
Usage: the admission charge
Main entry: charge
Definition: financial liabilities (such as a tax)
Usage: the charges against the estate
Main entry: charge
Definition: saturate
Usage: The room was charged with tension and anxiety
Main entry: charge
Definition: energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
Usage: I need to charge my car battery
Main entry: charge
Definition: cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
Usage: charge a conductor
Main entry: charge
Definition: set or ask for a certain price
Usage: How much do you charge for lunch?; This fellow charges $100 for a massage
Definition: attribute responsibility to
Usage: We blamed the accident on her; The tragedy was charged to her inexperience
Main entry: charge
Definition: instruct or command with authority
Usage: The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem
Main entry: charge
Definition: instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
Main entry: charge, burden, saddle
Definition: impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
Usage: He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend
Definition: blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
Usage: he charged the director with indifference
Main entry: charge
Definition: make an accusatory claim
Usage: The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased
Main entry: charge, file, lodge
Definition: file a formal charge against
Usage: The suspect was charged with murdering his wife
Definition: to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
Usage: he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork
Main entry: charge, level, point
Definition: direct into a position for use
Usage: point a gun; He charged his weapon at me
Main entry: charge
Definition: fill or load to capacity
Usage: charge the wagon with hay
Definition: provide (a device) with something necessary
Usage: He loaded his gun carefully; load the camera
Main entry: charge
Definition: place a heraldic bearing on
Usage: charge all weapons, shields, and banners
Main entry: turn on, rouse, excite, charge, charge up, commove, agitate
Definition: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
Usage: The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks
Main entry: charge
Definition: lie down on command, of hunting dogs
Main entry: tear, shoot, shoot down, buck, charge
Definition: move quickly and violently
Usage: The car tore down the street; He came charging into my office
Main entry: charge
Definition: 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?
Definition: 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
Main entry: charge
Definition: enter a certain amount as a charge
Usage: he charged me $15
Definition: give over to another for care or safekeeping
Usage: consign your baggage
Main entry: charge, commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send
Definition: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
Usage: After the second episode, she had to be committed; he was committed to prison
Definition: assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
Usage: He was appointed deputy manager; She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance