different between name vs charge

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *nam?, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?nómn?. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Noome, West Frisian namme, Dutch naam, German Name, Danish navn, Swedish namn, Latin n?men (Spanish nombre). Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi.

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?m, IPA^(key): /ne?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Noun

name (plural names)

1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

   Synonyms: proper name; see also Thesaurus:name

   • Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

   • 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz:

     So good a man as this must surely have a name.

2. Reputation.
   • 1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:

     And David won a name for himself.[1]

3. An abusive or insulting epithet.

4. A person (or legal person).

   • They list with women each degenerate name.

   • p. 2002, second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place, ?ISBN, page 287 [2]

     Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall, […] .

   • 2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management, ?ISBN page 79 [3]:

     Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?

   • 2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability, ?ISBN, page 29 [4]:

     International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and […] .

5. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
6. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
7. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
8. Authority.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• anonymous
• cognomen
• namely
• nom de guerre
• nom de plume
• nominal
• pseudonym

Descendants

• ? Sranan Tongo: nen
• ? Japanese: ???

Translations

References

• name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English namen, from Old English namian (“to name, mention”) and ?enamian (“to name, call, appoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *nam?n (“to name”). Compare also Old English nemnan, nemnian (“to name, give a name to a person or thing”).

Verb

name (third-person singular simple present names, present participle naming, simple past and past participle named)

1. (ditransitive) To give a name to.

2. (transitive) To mention, specify.

3. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important

4. (transitive) To publicly implicate.

5. (transitive) To designate for a role.

6. (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

Synonyms

• (give a name to): bename, designate, dub; see also Thesaurus:denominate

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• christen
• epithet
• moniker
• sobriquet

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish ñame, substituting n for the unfamiliar Spanish letter ñ. Doublet of yam.

Noun

name (plural names)

1. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

Synonyms

• cush-cush

Translations

Anagrams

• -mane, -nema, Amen, Eman, Enma, MEAN, MENA, Mena, NEMA, NMEA, amen, mane, mean, mnae, neam

Afrikaans

Noun

name

1. plural of naam

Central Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (n?man). Cognate with English name.

Noun

name

1. name

References

• "Besemah" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Cimbrian

Noun

name ?

1. (Tredici Comuni) name

References

• “name” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

name

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of nemen

Noun

name

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of naam

Anagrams

• amen, mane

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

name

1. grass

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

name

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Lithuanian

Noun

name m

1. locative singular of namas
2. vocative singular of namas

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch namo, from Proto-Germanic *namô.

Noun

n?me m or f

1. name
2. fame, reputation

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• n?men

Descendants

• Dutch: naam
• Limburgish: naam, naom

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *n?ma, from Proto-Germanic *n?m?.

Noun

nâme f

1. taking
2. receiving

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• n?men

Descendants

• Dutch: name (mostly in compounds)

Further reading

• “name”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “name (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “name (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II

Middle English

Alternative forms

• nome

Etymology

From Old English nama, from Proto-West Germanic *nam?, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?nómn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?m(?)/

Noun

name (plural names or namen)

1. name

Related terms

• surname

Descendants

• English: name
• Scots: name, naim, nem, nome
• Yola: naame

References

• “n?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ????? (nâme).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n???m?/

Noun

name f

1. letter (a document)

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

name

1. singular optative active of namati (“to bend”)

Volapük

Noun

name

1. dative singular of nam

Zazaki

Etymology

Compare Middle Persian ????????????? (n?m /n?m/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??me/

Noun

name (nam) ?

1. name
2. reputation

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