Charge
(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden |
Charge
(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust |
Charge
(v. t.) To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. |
Charge
(v. t.) To fix or demand as a price |
Charge
(v. t.) To place something to the account of as a debt |
Charge
(v. t.) To impute or ascribe |
Charge
(v. t.) To accuse |
Charge
(v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear |
Charge
(v. t.) To ornament with or cause to bear |
Charge
(v. t.) To assume as a bearing |
Charge
(v. t.) To call to account |
Charge
(v. t.) To bear down upon |
Charge
(v. i.) To make an onset or rush |
Charge
(v. i.) To demand a price |
Charge
(v. i.) To debit on an account |
Charge
(v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still |
Charge
(v. t.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. |
Charge
(v. t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another |
Charge
(v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place |
Charge
(v. t.) Heed |
Charge
(v. t.) Harm. |
Charge
(v. t.) An order |
Charge
(v. t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation |
Charge
(v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense |
Charge
(v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc. |
Charge
(v. t.) The price demanded for a thing or service. |
Charge
(v. t.) An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another |
Charge
(v. t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time |
Charge
(v. t.) The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy |
Charge
(v. t.) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack |
Charge
(v. t.) A soft of plaster or ointment. |
Charge
(v. t.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8. |
Charge
(n.) Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds |
Charge
(n.) Weight |
Charge d'affaires
(n.) A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another |
Coupled
(imp. & p. p.) of Couple |
Device
(n.) That which is devised, or formed by design |
Device
(n.) Power of devising |
Device
(n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance. |
Device
(n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing. |
Device
(n.) Anything fancifully conceived. |
Device
(n.) A spectacle or show. |
Device
(n.) Opinion |
Double-charge
(v. t.) To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder. |
Double-charge
(v. t.) To overcharge. |
Imaging
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Image |
Point-device
(a.) Alt. of Point-devise |
Point-device
(adv.) Alt. of Point-devise |
device
gimmick
twist | any clever maneuver, he would stoop to any device to win a point, it was a great sales gimmick, a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen |
mission
charge commission | a special assignment that is given to a person or group, a confidential mission to London, his charge was deliver a message |
care charge
tutelage guardianship | attention and management implying responsibility for safety, he is in the care of a bodyguard |
imaging
tomography | (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body |
magnetic resonance imaging
MRI | the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images |
functional magnetic resonance imaging
fMRI | a form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain |
blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging
BOLD FMRI | functional magnetic resonance imaging that relies on intrinsic changes in hemoglobin oxygenation |
| charge | an impetuous rush toward someone or something, the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary, the battle began with a cavalry charge |
banzai attack
banzai charge | a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties, originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of `banzai' |
projective test
projective device
projective technique | any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations |
| acoustic device | a device for amplifying or transmitting sound |
alarm
warning device
alarm system | a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event |
breathing device
breathing apparatus
breathing machine
ventilator | a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure |
charge
burster
bursting charge
explosive charge | a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time, this cartridge has a powder charge ofgrains |
charge bearing heraldic bearing
armorial bearing | heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield |
| charge-exchange accelerator | an accelerator in which high-energy ions escape from plasma following charge exchange |
cleaning implement
cleaning device
cleaning equipment | any of a large class of implements used for cleaning |
computer
computing machine
computing device
data processor
electronic computer
information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
contraceptive
preventive preventative contraceptive device
prophylactic device
birth control device | an agent or device intended to prevent conception |
data input device
input device | a device that can be used to insert data into a computer or other computational device |
depth charge
depth bomb | a bomb that explodes at a preset depth under water, antisubmarine device |
detonator
detonating device
cap | a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive, can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive |
| device | an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose, the device is small enough to wear on your wrist, a device intended to conserve water |
| device | an emblematic design (especially in heraldry), he was recognized by the device on his shield |
| device | any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery) |
| elastic device | any flexible device that will return to its original shape when stretched |
| electrical device | a device that produces or is powered by electricity |
| electromechanical device | a mechanical device that is operated by electricity |
| electronic device | a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically |
| exercise device | a device designed to provide exercise for the user |
| explosive device | device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy |
guard
safety
safety device | a device designed to prevent injury or accidents |
guidance system
guidance device | a system of equipment for automatically guiding the path of a vehicle (especially a missile) |
| holding device | a device for holding something |
| homing device | the mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objective |
improvised explosive device
I.E.D.
IED | an explosive device that is improvised |
intrauterine device
IUD | contraceptive device consisting of a piece of bent plastic or metal that is inserted through the vagina into the uterus |
life preserver
preserver
flotation device | rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning |
| lifting device | a device for lifting heavy loads |
measuring instrument
measuring system
measuring device | instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something |
| mechanical device | mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles |
memory device
storage device | a device that preserves information for retrieval |
| monitor monitoring device | display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor |
| optical device | a device for producing or controlling light |
| output device | electronic or electromechanical equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds, or other media |
peripheral
computer peripheral
peripheral device | (computer science) electronic equipment connected by cable to the CPU of a computer, disk drives and printers are important peripherals |
prosthesis
prosthetic device | corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body |
semiconductor device
semiconductor unit
semiconductor | a conductor made with semiconducting material |
| signaling device | a device used to send signals |
| characteristic device characteristic | any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions |