different between charge vs scramble

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.
13. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
14. (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

15. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
16. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
17. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
18. (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

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Compare earlier dialectal scramb (“pull with hands”) and scrabble (“to scrape or scratch quickly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?æmbl?/
• Rhymes: -æmb?l

Verb

scramble (third-person singular simple present scrambles, present participle scrambling, simple past and past participle scrambled)

1. (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 3

     When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.

2. (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
3. (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.

   I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.

4. (transitive) To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
5. (transitive, military) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
6. (intransitive, military) To be quickly deployed in this manner.
   • 1969, Burke Davis, Get Yamamoto (page 115)

     As the planes scrambled, four of his veterans went up: Tom Lanphier, Rex Barber, Joe Moore and Jim McLanahan. They had waited with other Lightnings at 30,000 feet and dived on a formation of eleven Zeroes far below, working in pairs.

7. (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
8. (intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
9. (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
10. (transitive) To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
11. (transitive) To throw something down for others to compete for in this manner.
    • 1952, Walkabout (volume 18, page 40)

      […] Father Boniface standing on the verandah of the Monastery on a Sunday afternoon “scrambling” lollies to the kids […]

Derived terms

• scrambled eggs

Translations

Noun

scramble (plural scrambles)

1. A rush or hurry, especially making use of the limbs against a surface.

2. (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
   • 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.

3. A motocross race.
4. Any frantic period of competitive activity.
5. (gridiron football) An impromptu maneuver or run by a quarterback, attempting to gain yardage or avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.

Antonyms

• sortie

Derived terms

• pedestrian scramble
• scramble band
• tofu scramble

Translations

Interjection

scramble

1. (Britain) Shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item, causing them to rush for it.

Anagrams

• cambrels, clambers, crambles, scambler