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descent
English
Etymology
From Middle English and Anglo-Norman descente, from Anglo-Norman descendre (“to descend”); see descend. Compare ascent, ascend. Doublet of desant.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??s?nt/
- Homophones: dissent (for some dialects)
Noun
descent (countable and uncountable, plural descents)
- An instance of descending; act of coming down.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- The next one surrendered his bike, only for that, too, to give him a second flat as he started the descent.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- A way down.
- We had difficulty in finding the correct descent.
- A sloping passage or incline.
- The descent into the cavern was wet and slippery.
- Lineage or hereditary derivation.
- Our guide was of Welsh descent.
- A drop to a lower status or condition; decline. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- After that, the holiday went into a steep descent.
- A falling upon or invasion.
- (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).
Usage notes
- Sometimes confused with decent.
Antonyms
- (going down): ascent
Derived terms
- hypodescent, hyperdescent
Related terms
- descend
Translations
Further reading
- descent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- descent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- cedents, scented
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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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