What's the difference between charger and charter?

Charger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which charges.
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge.
  • (n.) A large dish.
  • (n.) A horse for battle or parade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) British Airways says it will have a "limited supply" of chargers at the gate area to flights and Virgin Atlantic says that it has charger facilities available at airports for all the most popular devices.
  • (2) The former Chargers guard Aaron Taylor said: "Guys keep things to themselves.
  • (3) PB Everything goes right for the Chargers You can forgive San Diego Chargers fans for being skeptical about their team's chances, and not just because their team only had a 1.6% chance of making the playoffs around Week 13 .
  • (4) Chargers 0-7 Broncos, 11:13, 2nd quarter Nick Novak loses his footing and misses - wide left!
  • (5) Results of this study indicate a clear preference between chargers.
  • (6) The San Diego Chargers won 27-24 and will be in Cincinnati next week to take on the Bengals.
  • (7) Huawei expects to be able to integrate the chargers directly into smartphones in the near future.
  • (8) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
  • (9) If you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, you can't believe you came within a 10-point fourth quarter rally by the San Diego Chargers of stealing a playoff berth.
  • (10) My phone battery’s running low and I need to frantically ask everyone in the vicinity if they have a charger, like it’s a life-or-death situation.
  • (11) 12.44am GMT Chargers 17-24 Broncos, 3:07, 4th quarter Manning drops back, fires to D Thomas, and can't connect.
  • (12) Brother Naveed posts YouTube video showing boxes of special food family bought online for Ashya and a power charger for his feeding unit and strenuously denies any allegations of neglect.
  • (13) An automatic charger for the testing of a wide range of nickel cadmium and lead acid rechargeable batteries is described.
  • (14) Kaepernick and Reid dropped to one knee while a naval officer sang The Star-Spangled Banner and dozens of military members unfurled an oversize flag at the Chargers’ Qualcomm stadium.
  • (15) Not only will it mean phone users no longer have to hunt for the right charger, but the specifications for the new device include a 50% reduction in standby energy consumption.
  • (16) Hong Kong has 1,300 public charging facilities scattered across shopping malls, commercial buildings, and government complexes, equating to three to four cars competing for each charger.
  • (17) The Chargers' defense was relatively good this season, but Turner gets little credit for that because John Pagano looks after much of the defensive work in San Diego, while Turner is known for his offensive intelligence.
  • (18) Chargers 7-7 Washington Alfred Morris bobs and weaves his way into the end zone on a five-yard run to bring Washington level at home.
  • (19) 8.58pm GMT Preamble When Peyton Manning takes to Sports Authority Field to begin his latest playoff run, his Broncos will be facing more than just the San Diego Chargers.
  • (20) Charge a Powerwall, then run your electric-vehicle charger off the stored energy.

Charter


Definition:

  • (n.) A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
  • (n.) An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
  • (n.) An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.
  • (n.) A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
  • (n.) The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
  • (v. t.) To establish by charter.
  • (v. t.) To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
  • (2) Paul Johnson, the IFS director, said: “Osborne’s new fiscal charter is much more constraining than his previous fiscal rules.
  • (3) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (4) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (5) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
  • (6) "The victims are very clear that those outstanding matters of detail – which are not on the charter but on the legislation surrounding the incentives mainly – is just as important to them than any detail in the charter."
  • (7) Turner was at a meeting last month where the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, clinched an agreement with the five biggest UK banks – Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Standard Chartered – to accept the G20 principles.
  • (8) The possibilities were discussed and agreement was reached on chartering three trains from the region: from Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester, with additional stops in between.
  • (9) The closures are part of a nationwide move to shut large numbers of urban public schools and set up privately run, publicly funded charters .
  • (10) 'Snooper's charter': Theresa May faces calls to improve bill to protect privacy Read more Ken Clarke, the Conservative former home secretary, and Dominic Grieve, the Tory former attorney general, suggested there could be improvements to the new laws that overhaul the state’s surveillance powers.
  • (11) Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband accepted the Tory idea of a royal charter to establish a new press regulatory body but insisted it be underpinned in statute and said there should be guarantees of the body's independence.
  • (12) "The point of having a charter that runs for 10 years is to give the BBC stability and keep it at arm's length from the political process.
  • (13) Paul Vickers, the legal director of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, said the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) – announced on Monday – was being fast-tracked in an attempt to kill off accusations that big newspaper groups are conspiring to delay the introduction of a new regulator backed by royal charter.
  • (14) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
  • (15) This is not about the BBC exercising its charter duties of impartiality, as they maintain.
  • (16) Though Charter 08 mostly called for the Communist party to uphold commitments made in its own constitution it was a coherent and forthright challenge to the party’s rule, calling for peaceful democratic reform.
  • (17) They were taken out of the zone on chartered government buses and screened for radiation exposure.
  • (18) The warning was issued as Miller held negotiations with the industry on the eve of an agreement by the three main parties over a royal charter, which was announced on Friday.
  • (19) The charter includes provision allowing a non-elected official to assume the role of prime minister in times of crisis.
  • (20) Miliband said: "The royal charter we propose would create a new independent voluntary system of self-regulation for the press.