(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.
(v. t.) To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
(v. t.) To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.
(v. t.) To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.
(v. t.) To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
(v. t.) To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.
(v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.
(v. t.) To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
(v. t.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.
(v. t.) To call to account; to challenge.
(v. t.) To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
(v. i.) To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.
(v. i.) To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.
(v. i.) To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.
(v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
(v. t.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
(v. t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.
(v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
(v. t.) Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.
(v. t.) Harm.
(v. t.) An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
(v. t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.
(v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
(v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) The price demanded for a thing or service.
(v. t.) An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.
(v. t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time
(v. t.) The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.
(v. t.) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
(v. t.) A soft of plaster or ointment.
(v. t.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
(n.) Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.
(n.) Weight; import; value.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(3) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(4) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
(5) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(6) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(7) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
(8) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(9) At a fixed concentration of nucleotide the effectiveness of elution was proportional to the charge on the eluting molecule.
(10) [125I]AaIT was shown to cross the midgut of Sarcophaga through a morphologically distinct segment of the midgut previously shown to be permeable to a cytotoxic, positively charged polypeptide of similar molecular weight.
(11) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(12) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(13) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(14) Four Dutch activists were charged in Murmansk this week under the law.
(15) Both polycations investigated reduced the negative surface charge of assay cells and enhanced in vitro infectivity of murine C-type viruses, but had no influence on leukemia-virus-induced XC cell syncytia formation.
(16) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(17) The antibody-hapten profiles revealed that the DNCB-fed animalss contained predominatly IgG2 in their serum by the time of their initial bleedings, whereas sensitized animals still contained a considerable proportion of more acidic antibodies having marked charge heterogeneity.
(18) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(19) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(20) The phenomenon can be ascribed to the decrease in charge density due to the incorporation of dodecyl alcohol into SDS micelles.
Charre
Definition:
(n.) See Charge, n., 17.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both the retina and pineal organ appear to be suitably differentiated to detect light in the larval and embryonic charr.
(2) The aim now is to challenge for the world title again and there was the bizarre sight in the post-fight press conference here of Manuel Charr, the undefeated German whom Vitali Klitschko is scheduled to face in Moscow in September, stepping up to the top table and challenging Haye to a fight once he, by his own estimation, has defeated the Ukrainian.
(3) That remains an unlikely outcome, so Vitali remains the man in Haye's sights, but Vitali has made few noises of wanting to face the former WBA champion and, if rumours are to be believed, may retire after the Charr bout in order to focus on being elected to the Ukrainian parliament.
(4) %FT4 and %FT3 of plasma from trout or charr acclimated at 12-13 degrees increased with dialysis temperature (5-19 degrees).
(5) The original diameter of 21.5 Charr is maintained, which allows subsequent transurethral endoscopic manipulation if necessary.
(6) In charr starved for 2 or 3 weeks the plasma T4 response to TRH appeared blunted.
(7) However, the stressor-related increase in plasma glucose concentration that was evident in brook charr 24 h following handling and injection was suppressed in RU486-treated groups.
(8) The puncture channel is then dilated under x-ray visualisation with a Teflon-coated fasciadilatator (Cook) to Charr.
(9) The fine structure and opsin immunocytochemistry of the pineal and parapineal organs of the salmonid fish Salvelinus alpinus, the landlocked Arctic charr, were studied and compared with the retina in various developmental stages, from prehatching to two-month-old.
(10) "If Vitali beats this gentleman [Charr] I would love to challenge him for his title.
(11) High-affinity, limited-capacity, 3,5,3'-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3)-binding sites were established by in vitro saturation analysis in cell nuclei of the pituitary gland of arctic charr.
(12) Critical light levels necessary to produce avoidance movements in photonegative free embryos (eleutheroembryos) of the lake and brook charr and their F1 hybrid splake, (S. namaycush X S. fontinalis) were determined and compared to previously studied movement patterns within artificial substrate systems.
(13) The ancestor of the group had been isolated from the ancestor of an artic charr before the beginning of the group divergence.
(14) Plasma T3 and T4 concentrations were similar in RU486- and vehicle-treated groups, but hepatic T3 production and hepatic T3 content were lower in RU486-treated fish; TSH had no effect on hepatic T3 content of vehicle-treated brook charr but significantly increased T3 content in the RU486-treated group.
(15) times per year, the most frequent being caribou (145, mean), beluga whale (74), hares (35), muskrat (26), whitefish (52), cisco (39), burbot (38), inconnu (37), Arctic charr (31), geese (44) ducks (19), ptamigan (18), cloudberries (22), cranberries (20) and blueberries (18).
(16) The effect of ozone exposure on the activities of reactive oxygen scavenging enzymes (SOD, catalase, GSH-Px) in RBC of Japanese charr (Salvelinus leucomaenis) was examined.
(17) For determination of the distribution of the salmonid Hpa 1 family in other salmonid species, the same analysis was applied to DNAs from the chum salmon (Onchorhynchus keta), brown trout (Salmo trutta), Japanese common charr (Salvelinus leucomaenis pluvius), and Japanese huchen (Hucho perryi).
(18) In all, a 24-Charr sheath with non-irrigating, resectoscope and 1.5% glycine as irrigant was used.
(19) Karyotypes of three endemic forms of charres from the Kronozkoe lake (longhead charr, nosed charr, and white charr) were studied (2n equals 78-82, NF equals 100; 2n equals 78-82, a species level while the other two forms are yet at the initial stages.
(20) The charr Fok I family is present only in four species and subspecies of the genus Salvelinus.