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profess

English

Etymology

From Old French professer, and its source, the participle stem of Latin profit?r?, from pro- + fat?r? (to confess, acknowledge).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /p???f?s/
  • Rhymes: -?s

Verb

profess (third-person singular simple present professes, present participle professing, simple past and past participle professed)

  1. (transitive) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.) [from 14th c.]
    • 2000, Butler's Lives of the Saints, p.118:
      This swayed the balance decisively in Mary's favour, and she was professed on 8 September 1578.
  2. (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something). [from 16th c.]
    • 2011, Alex Needham, The Guardian, 9 Dec.:
      Kiefer professes himself amused by the fuss that ensued when he announced that he was buying the Mülheim-Kärlich reactor [].
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm. [from 16th c.]
    • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, First Folio 1623:
      He professes to haue receiued no sinister measure from his Iudge, but most willingly humbles himselfe to the determination of Iustice [].
    • 1974, ‘The Kansas Kickbacks’, Time, 11 Feb 1974:
      The Governor immediately professed that he knew nothing about the incident.
  4. (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. [from 16th c.]
    • 2010, Hélène Mulholland, The Guardian, 28 Sep 2010:
      Ed Miliband professed ignorance of the comment when he was approached by the BBC later.
  5. (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.). [from 16th c.]
    • 1983, Alexander Mcleish, The Frontier Peoples of India, Mittal Publications 1984, p.122:
      The remainder of the population, about two-thirds, belongs to the Mongolian race and professes Buddhism.
  6. (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach. [from 16th c.]
  7. (transitive, now rare) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter). [from 16th c.]

Translations

Further reading

  • profess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • profess in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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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)

  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.
  12. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
  13. (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
  14. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
  15. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
  16. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
  17. (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

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