What's the difference between charge and postage?

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.

Postage


Definition:

  • (n.) The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stamps, which were similar in paper and size to Japanese 10-yen postage stamps, were wrapped around the penis before sleep and the stamp ring was checked for breakage the next morning.
  • (2) A brief orientation to postage stamps and philately is given, and a small collection of rheumatologically related stamps is illustrated.
  • (3) There was no financial incentive to return this survey except that return postage was paid by the author.
  • (4) There was no financial incentive for return of the survey other than return postage paid for by the author.
  • (5) In a survey of attitudes and referral practices toward screening mammography, one-fifth (886) of the 4200 physicians queried returned a postage-paid questionnaire.
  • (6) As the Powell quote above suggests, as of the early 1970s, they led the way into a world where the most ambitious groups dispensed with band-portraits, and even typography: to this day, even if album "sleeves" are now often boiled down to the size of a postage stamp, musicians usually serve notice of their ambition by leaving such fripperies off their artwork.
  • (7) Small booksellers argue they cannot compete with Amazon because it provides free postage and free fast delivery deals on top of 5% discount.
  • (8) A self-administered, postage prepaid questionnaire was sent to 1000 Indiana consumers randomly selected from telephone directories.
  • (9) It contained items of value, including sales receipts needed to return goods, my driving licence, loyalty cards, library cards and postage stamps.
  • (10) The accompanying marketing blitzkrieg has given us postage stamps , Madame Tussauds exhibits , themed decor from Pottery Barn and fleets of new toys , including actual droids .
  • (11) Some retailers have a better online price than they do in-store, but charge postage.
  • (12) Heads Up, Tim Tron is available from The Children's Trust for just the cost of postage and packing.
  • (13) The fact that your proof of postage shows that the parcel weighed considerably more than an empty box, and that the buyer has refused to cooperate in the dispute resolution process, appears irrelevant to eBay.
  • (14) It comes with a 128-page recipe book and can be bought from Andrew James for £27.90 including postage .
  • (15) These companies bulk-buy postage slots then sell in dividual slots to consumers, passing on some of the discount.
  • (16) Other variables such as inclusion of postage and dietary restrictions were studied and cost efficiencies were estimated.
  • (17) Postage stamps sold in the capital, Sarajevo, are not valid in the RS; railway engines have to be swapped as a train from Ploce to Zagreb crosses the country, from Croatian, to Bosnian, to Serbian and back to Croatian again (and these countries want to join the EU?).
  • (18) Men who received the stamped envelope had a 5.9% greater response than those who received the franked envelope (p less than 0.001), but the type of postage did not influence response among women (p = 0.84); this interaction was statistically significant (p = 0.006).
  • (19) These eyes were randomly assigned to four groups: "can opener," linear capsulotomy, capsulopuncture ("postage stamp"), and continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC).
  • (20) We had a tiny postage stamp-sized garden in Ealing.