Battery (v. t.) The act of battering or beating. |
Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him. |
Battery (v. t.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense. |
Battery (v. t.) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field. |
Battery (v. t.) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns. |
Battery (v. t.) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously. |
Battery (v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity. |
Battery (v. t.) A number of similar machines or devices in position |
Battery (v. t.) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals. |
Battery (v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down. |
Battery (v. t.) The pitcher and catcher together. |
Bunsen's battery () Alt. of Bunsen's burner |
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 |
Double-charge (v. t.) To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder. |
Double-charge (v. t.) To overcharge. |
Voltage (n.) Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts. |
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 |
battery assault and battery | an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact |
care charge tutelage guardianship | attention and management implying responsibility for safety, he is in the care of a bodyguard |
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' |
barrage barrage fire battery bombardment shelling | the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target, they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops, the shelling went on for hours without pausing |
A battery | the battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube |
c acid back breaker battery-acid dose dot Elvis loony toons Lucy in the sky with diamonds pane superman window pane Zen | street name for lysergic acid diethylamide |
battery electric battery | a device that produces electricity, may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series |
battery stamp battery | a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores |
B battery | battery for supplying a constant positive voltage to the plate of a vacuum tube |
car battery automobile battery | a lead-acid storage battery in a motor vehicle, usually a -volt battery of six cells, the heart of the car's electrical system |
C battery | battery used to maintain the grid potential in a vacuum tube |
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 |
charger battery charger | a device for charging or recharging batteries |
Cockcroft and Walton accelerator Cockcroft-Walton accelerator Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier | a high-voltage machine in which rectifiers charge capacitors that discharge and drive charged particles through an accelerating tube |
depth charge depth bomb | a bomb that explodes at a preset depth under water, antisubmarine device |
dry battery | a voltaic battery consisting of two or more dry cells |
flashlight battery | a small dry battery containing dry cells, used to power flashlights |
grid storage-battery grid | a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material |
lead-acid battery lead-acid accumulator | a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte, each cell generates about volts |
nickel-iron battery nickel-iron accumulator | a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide, each cell gives about . volts |
potential divider voltage divider | resistors connected in series across a voltage source, used to obtain a desired fraction of the voltage |
quartz battery quartz mill | a stamp mill for stamping quartz |
solar array solar battery solar panel | electrical device consisting of a large array of connected solar cells |
storage battery accumulator | a voltaic battery that stores electric charge |
voltage regulator | a transformer whose voltage ratio of transformation can be adjusted |
voltaic battery galvanic battery | battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel |
voltage drop | a decrease in voltage along a conductor through which current is flowing |
conservation of charge conservation of electricity | the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system |
blotter day book police blotter rap sheet charge sheet | the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station |
charge complaint | (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense, he was arrested on a charge of larceny |
accusation charge | an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence, the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving |
commission charge direction | a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something, the judge's charge to the jury |
charge billing | request for payment of a debt, they submitted their charges at the end of each month |
murder charge murder indictment | an indictment charging someone with murder |
bang boot charge rush flush thrill kick | the swift release of a store of affective force, they got a great bang out of it, what a boot!, he got a quick rush from injecting heroin, he does it for kicks |
battery | a collection of related things intended for use together, took a battery of achievement tests |
battery | a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher |
battery | group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place |
cathexis charge | (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object, Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge |
charge | a person committed to your care, the teacher led her charges across the street |
charge d'affaires | the official temporarily in charge of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador |
charge of quarters | an enlisted man who handles his unit's administrative matters after hours |
charge electric charge | the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons, the battery needed a fresh charge |
electrostatic charge | the electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field) |
positive charge | having a deficiency of electrons, having a higher electric potential |
negative charge | having a surplus of electrons, having a lower electric potential |