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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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??p??t/, [s??p???t]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??p??t/, [s??p???t], [s??p?o?t]
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /s??po(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /s??po?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t
• Hyphenation: sup?port

Etymology 1

From Middle English supporten, from Old French supporter, from Latin support?. Displaced Old English underwreþian and Old English fultum.

Verb

support (third-person singular simple present supports, present participle supporting, simple past and past participle supported)

2. (transitive) To keep from falling.

3. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.

5. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.

6. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
7. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
   • 1754, Jonathan Edwards, The Freedom of the Will

     to urge such arguments, as though they were sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy

8. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.

9. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for.

10. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.

11. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.

    • This fierce demeanour and his insolence / The patience of a god could not support.

    • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

      For a strong affection such moments are worth supporting, and they will end well; for your advocate is in your lover's heart and speaks her own language […]

12. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

Synonyms

• (to keep from falling): underprop, uphold, stut

Antonyms

• (to back a cause, party, etc.): oppose

Derived terms

• supportable
• supported
• supportive

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English support, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French support. Displaced Old English underwreþung.

Noun

support (countable and uncountable, plural supports)

1. (sometimes attributive) Something which supports.

2. Financial or other help.
3. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.

4. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.
5. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).

6. Evidence.

7. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.

8. An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
9. An accompaniment in music.
10. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
11. (structural analysis) Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Antonyms

• (mathematics): kernel

Hyponyms

• moral support
• (answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold): first-level support, second-level support, third-level support
• (military): combat support

Derived terms

• support act
• support group

Translations

French

Etymology

From the verb supporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.p??/

Noun

support m (plural supports)

1. support
2. base
3. (heraldry) supporter

Further reading

• “support” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).