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. |
Ex-official
(a.) Proceeding from office or authority. |
Extra-official
(a.) Not prescribed by official duty. |
Land
(n.) Urine. See Lant. |
Land
(n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth |
Land
(n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract. |
Land
(n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality |
Land
(n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people. |
Land
(n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands. |
Land
(n.) The ground or floor. |
Land
(n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows |
Land
(n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc. |
Land
(n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat |
Land
(n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves. |
| official immunity | personal immunity accorded to a public official from liability to anyone injured by actions that are the consequence of exerting official authority |
| land reform | a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action) |
| farming land | agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life, farming is a strenuous life, there's no work on the land any more |
works
deeds | performance of moral or religious acts, salvation by deeds, the reward for good works |
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 |
| land development | making an area of land more useful |
| 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' |
| land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
corncrake
land rail
Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
| accumulator accumulator register | (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register |
cash register
register | a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions, used in shops to add up the bill |
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 |
depth charge
depth bomb | a bomb that explodes at a preset depth under water, antisubmarine device |
| index register | (computer science) a register used to determine the address of an operand |
land line
landline | a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits, a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave |
land mine
ground-emplaced mine
booby trap | an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over |
| land office | a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted |
Polaroid camera
Polaroid Land camera | a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds |
| register | a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device |
| register | an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room |
| register | (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind |
| shift register | (computer science) register in which all bits can be shifted one or more positions to the left or to the right |
twilight zone
no man's land | the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both), but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal, in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity, in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression |
| register | (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments |
head register
head voice
head tone | the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing, the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head |
chest register
chest voice
chest tone | the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing |
acreage
land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
| clouduckoo-land | an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality |
| Promised Land | the goal towards which Christians strive |
never-never land
dreamland
dreamworld | a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination |
conservation of charge
conservation of electricity | the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system |
legal document
legal instrument
official document
instrument | (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right |
blotter
day book
police blotter
rap sheet
charge sheet | the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station |
| check register | a register of checks issued (usually in numeric order) |
register
registry | an official written record of names or events or transactions |
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 |
| register language | a tone language that uses different voice registers |
| 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 |
| nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
state
nation
country
land
commonwealth
res publica
body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
| law of the land | a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law), today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process, the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land' |
Adelie Land
Terre Adelie
Adelie Coast | a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia, noted for its large colonies of penguins |