What's the difference between charge and disrupt?

Charge


Definition:

  • (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.

Disrupt


Definition:

  • (a.) Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
  • (v. t.) To break asunder; to rend.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
  • (2) Immunocytochemistry was used to visualize cytoskeletal structures and to assay selective disruption of neurofilaments by acrylamide.
  • (3) Sepsis resulted from intravenous absorption through inflamed or disrupted urothelium.
  • (4) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
  • (5) Thus, saponin and ammonium chloride can be used to isolate whole infected erythrocytes, depleted of hemoglobin, by selective disruption of uninfected cells.
  • (6) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
  • (7) The pathology resulting from a missense mutation at residue 403 further suggests that a critical function of myosin is disrupted by this mutation.
  • (8) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
  • (9) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
  • (10) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (11) Displacement of the surface of the cornea of bovine eyes after disruption of intact structures was investigated by means of holographic interferometry.
  • (12) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (13) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
  • (14) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
  • (15) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
  • (16) We propose that, for a GC base pair in B conformation, there are two amino proton exchangeable states--a cytosine amino proton exchangeable state and a guanine amino proton exchangeable state; both require the disruption of only the corresponding interbase H bond.
  • (17) No signs of the blood-brain barrier disruption were observed.
  • (18) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
  • (19) On histopathologic examination there were microabscesses in the inner choroid and subretinal space, disrupting the outer retina but sparing the inner retina.
  • (20) Of 55 new open reading frames analysed by gene disruption, three are essential genes; of 42 non-essential genes that were tested, 14 show some discernible effect on phenotype and the remaining 28 have no overt function.