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charge
English
Etymology
From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Medieval Latin carric? (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t????d??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t????d??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
Noun
charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An accusation.
- Synonym: count
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist. 261a.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist. 261a.
- (physics and chemistry) An electric charge.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- 1848 April 24, John K. Kane, opinion, United States v. Hutchison, as reported in The Pennsylvania law Journal, June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 [2]:
- 1848 April 24, John K. Kane, opinion, United States v. Hutchison, as reported in The Pennsylvania law Journal, June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 [2]:
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- An instruction.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
- (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)
- to assign a duty or responsibility to
- Moses […] charged you to love the Lord your God.
- (transitive) to assign (a debit) to an account
- (transitive) to pay on account, as by using a credit card
- (transitive, intransitive) to require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)
- (possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.
- (law) to formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- to impute or ascribe
- No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.
- to call to account; to challenge
- (transitive) to place a burden or load on or in
- the charging of children's memories […] with rules
- 1911, The Encyclopedia Britannica, entry on Moya:
- [A] huge torrent of boiling black mud, charged with blocks of rock and moving with enormous rapidity, rolled like an avalanche down the gorge.
- to ornament with or cause to bear
- (heraldry) to assume as a bearing
- (heraldry) to add to or represent on
- (transitive) to load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials
- Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
- (transitive) to cause to take on an electric charge
- (transitive) to add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery).
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) to gain energy
- (intransitive) to move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback
- (military, transitive and intransitive) to attack by moving forward quickly in a group
- (basketball) to commit a charging foul
- (cricket, of a batsman) to take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball
- (military, transitive and intransitive) to attack by moving forward quickly in a group
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) to lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- charge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- charge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Creagh
Dutch
Alternative forms
- chargie (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French charge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???r.??/
- Hyphenation: char?ge
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- A charge (fast ground attack).
Derived terms
- cavaleriecharge
Related terms
- chargeren
Descendants
- Afrikaans: sarsie
French
Etymology
From charger.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a??/
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- load, burden
- cargo, freight
- responsibility, charge
- (law) charge
- (military) charge
- (in the plural) costs, expenses
Derived terms
Descendants
- Portuguese: charge
Verb
charge
- first-person singular present indicative of charger
- third-person singular present indicative of charger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of charger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of charger
- second-person singular imperative of charger
Related terms
- chargement
- charger
Further reading
- “charge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- gâcher
Middle English
Verb
charge
- first-person singular present indicative of chargen
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French charge.
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- cartoon (satire of public figures)
- Synonym: cartum
Further reading
- charge on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
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advance
English
Alternative forms
- advaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English avauncen, avancen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman avauncer, avancer, avancier (French avancer), from Vulgar Latin *abanti?re, from Late Latin abante, from Latin ab + ante (“before”). ?d? added in analogy to Latin ad- (cf. Middle French advancer). Compare avaunt.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, Southern England) IPA(key): /?d?v??ns/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d?væns/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?d?va?ns/
- Rhymes: -??ns, -æns
Verb
advance (third-person singular simple present advances, present participle advancing, simple past and past participle advanced)
- To promote or advantage.
- To help the progress of (something); to further. [from 12th c.]
- 2018, Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian, 26 January:
- Some see it as in effect the end of the Syrian uprising that began with peaceful protests against Assad’s police state in 2011, with opposition fighters working to advance Turkey’s interests at the expense of the revolution’s goals.
- 2018, Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian, 26 January:
- To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote. [from 14th c.]
- 1611, The Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, Esther III.1:
- After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- This, however, was in time evaded by the monarchs, who advanced certain of their own retainers to a level with the ancient peers of the land […]
- 1611, The Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, Esther III.1:
- To help the progress of (something); to further. [from 12th c.]
- To move forward in space or time.
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully. [from 14th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates?
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten. [form 15th c.]
- (intransitive) To move forwards; to approach. [from 16th c.]
- 1829, Marchioness of Lemington, Rosina, or the Virtuous Country Maid, Ninth ed.:
- I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him.
- 1829, Marchioness of Lemington, Rosina, or the Virtuous Country Maid, Ninth ed.:
- To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend. [from 16th c.]
- 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
- “I had intended to ask you to advance me a hundred pounds,” said Phineas.
- 1871, James William Gilbart, The Principles and Practice of Banking:
- On the urgent representations of several parties of the first importance in the City of London, the bank advanced 120,000l. to the Governor and Company of the Copper Miners […].
- 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
- To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose. [from 16th c.]
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Crticism:
- Some ne'er advance a Judgement of their own, / But catch the spreading notion of the Town […].
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Crticism:
- (intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed. [from 16th c.]
- 2014, Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 24 April:
- Earlier the caller said men were more likely to be in senior positions. Clegg says that's partly because the current maternity leave arrangements make it difficult for women to advance in the workplace.
- 2014, Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 24 April:
- (intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion. [from 16th c.]
- 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes:
- I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances.
- 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes:
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully. [from 14th c.]
- To raise, be raised.
- (transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I.2:
- The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I.2:
- To raise or increase (a price, rate). [from 14th c.]
- 1924, The Times, 16 July:
- In February last […] bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf.
- 1924, The Times, 16 July:
- To increase (a number or amount). [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate. [from 14th c.]
Synonyms
- raise, elevate, exalt, aggrandize, improve, heighten, accelerate, allege, adduce, assign
Antonyms
- regress
- retract (in phonetics)
Derived terms
- advancement
- in advance
- in advance of
Translations
Noun
advance (plural advances)
- A forward move; improvement or progression.
- An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
- 1917, James Joyce, Dubliners (Counterparts)
- Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.
- 1780, John Jay, letter dated November 21
- I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.
- 1917, James Joyce, Dubliners (Counterparts)
- An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
- (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
- 1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church of England Man with Respect to Religion and Government
- For, if it were of any use to recall matters of fact, what is more notorious, than that prince's applying himself first to the church of England? and upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, making the like advances to the dissenters of all kinds, who readily and almost universally complied with him
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, chapter 4:
- As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted.
- 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
- I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.
- 1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church of England Man with Respect to Religion and Government
Antonyms
- (forward move): regress, regression
Translations
Adjective
advance (comparative more advance, superlative most advance)
- Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
- preceding
- forward
Derived terms
- advance person
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