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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)

  1. The amount of money levied for a service.
  2. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
  3. A forceful forward movement.
  4. An accusation.
    Synonym: count
    1. An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of
    2. An accusation by a person or organization.
      • 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist. 261a.
  5. (physics and chemistry) An electric charge.
  6. 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]:
  7. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
  8. A load or burden; cargo.
  9. An instruction.
  10. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
  11. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
  12. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
  13. (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
  14. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
  15. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
  16. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
  17. (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)

  1. to assign a duty or responsibility to
    • Moses [] charged you to love the Lord your God.
  2. (transitive) to assign (a debit) to an account
  3. (transitive) to pay on account, as by using a credit card
  4. (transitive, intransitive) to require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)
  5. (possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.
  6. (law) to formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
  7. to impute or ascribe
    • No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.
  8. to call to account; to challenge
  9. (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.
    1. to ornament with or cause to bear
    2. (heraldry) to assume as a bearing
    3. (heraldry) to add to or represent on
  10. (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.
    1. (transitive) to cause to take on an electric charge
    2. (transitive) to add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery).
    3. (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) to gain energy
  11. (intransitive) to move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback
    1. (military, transitive and intransitive) to attack by moving forward quickly in a group
    2. (basketball) to commit a charging foul
    3. (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
  12. (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)

  1. 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)

  1. load, burden
  2. cargo, freight
  3. responsibility, charge
  4. (law) charge
  5. (military) charge
  6. (in the plural) costs, expenses

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Portuguese: charge

Verb

charge

  1. first-person singular present indicative of charger
  2. third-person singular present indicative of charger
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of charger
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of charger
  5. 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

  1. first-person singular present indicative of chargen

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French charge.

Noun

charge f (plural charges)

  1. cartoon (satire of public figures)
    Synonym: cartum

Further reading

  • charge on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt

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chore

English

Etymology 1

From earlier char, from Middle English charr, charre, cherre (odd job, turn, occasion, business), from Old English ?err, ?ierr (a turn), from ?ierran (to turn), from Proto-Germanic *karzijan? (to turn), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (to bend, turn).

Cognate with Dutch keer (time; turn; occasion), German Kehre (a turn; bend; wind; back-flip; u-turn). Also related to Saterland Frisian kiere, käire (to turn), Old Saxon k?rian, Old High German ch?ran (to turn) (German kehren (to turn), Dutch keren (to turn)). See also char.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA(key): /t???/
  • (General American) enPR: chôr, IPA(key): /t???/
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA(key): /t?o(?)?/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /t?o?/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

chore (plural chores)

  1. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
Derived terms
  • choreful
  • choreless
  • chorelike
  • choresome
  • chore wheel
Translations

Verb

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

  1. (US, dated) To do chores.
References
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chore”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology 2

Possibly derived from Romani ?or (thief), see also Geordie word chor.

Alternative forms

  • chor (Geordie)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA(key): /t???/
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA(key): /t?o(?)?/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /t?o?/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

  1. (Britain, informal) To steal.
Synonyms
  • steal (standard English)
  • thieve (standard English)
  • twoc (Geordie)

Etymology 3

Noun

chore (plural chores)

  1. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.
    • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood
      On every wall, and sung where e'er I walk. I number these, as being of the chore

Anagrams

  • Roche, ocher, ochre, roche

Latin

Noun

chore

  1. vocative singular of chorus

Lower Sorbian

Adjective

chore

  1. Superseded spelling of chóre.

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?x?.r?/

Adjective

chore

  1. inflection of chory:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Portuguese

Verb

chore

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of chorar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of chorar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of chorar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of chorar

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