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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
charge From the web:
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ultimatum
English
Etymology
From Latin ultimatus (“late, last final”), from Latin ultimus (“extreme, last, furthest, farthest, final”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l.t??me?.t?m/
Noun
ultimatum (plural ultimatums or ultimata)
- A final statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another, especially one that expresses a threat of reprisal or war.
Related terms
- ulterior
- ultimate
- ultra
- ultra-
Translations
See also
- ultimatum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ultimatum in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Cebuano
Etymology
From English ultimatum, from Latin ultimatus (“late, last final”), from Latin ultimus (“extreme, last, furthest, farthest, final”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ul?ti?ma?tum
Noun
ultimatum
- an ultimatum
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ultima?t?m/, [ult?i?mæ?t??m]
Noun
ultimatum n (singular definite ultimatummet, plural indefinite ultimatummer)
- ultimatum
Inflection
Derived terms
- ultimativ
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin ultimatum, from ultimatus (“late, last final”), from ultim?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l.ti?ma?.t?m/
- Hyphenation: ul?ti?ma?tum
- Rhymes: -a?t?m
Noun
ultimatum n (plural ultimatums or ultimata, diminutive ultimatumpje n)
- ultimatum
Derived terms
- ultimatief
Descendants
- Afrikaans: ultimatum
- ? Indonesian: ultimatum
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /yl.ti.ma.t?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
- Homophone: ultimatums
Noun
ultimatum m (plural ultimatums)
- ultimatum
Further reading
- “ultimatum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
ultim?tum
- accusative supine of ultim?
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
ultimatum n (definite singular ultimatumet, indefinite plural ultimata or ultimatumer, definite plural ultimataene or ultimatumene)
- an ultimatum
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
ultimatum n (definite singular ultimatumet, indefinite plural ultimatum, definite plural ultimatuma)
- an ultimatum
Polish
Etymology
From Latin ultim?tum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ul.ti?ma.tum/
Noun
ultimatum n
- ultimatum
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjective) ultymatywny
Further reading
- ultimatum in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French ultimatum.
Noun
ultimatum n (plural ultimatumuri)
- ultimatum
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ultim??tum/
- Hyphenation: ul?ti?ma?tum
Noun
ultimátum m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)
- ultimatum
Declension
Swedish
Noun
ultimatum n
- an ultimatum
Declension
Related terms
- ultimat
- ultimativ
References
- ultimatum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
ultimatum From the web:
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- what ultimatum mean
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