Charging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charge |
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 |
Cover-point (n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." |
Dew-point (n.) The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere. |
Double-charge (v. t.) To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder. |
Double-charge (v. t.) To overcharge. |
Dust-point (n.) An old rural game. |
Dynamo-electric (a.) Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power |
Electric (a.) Alt. of Electrical |
Electric (n.) A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity. |
Hydro-electric (a.) Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used. |
Libration point (n.) any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body. |
Magneto-electric (a.) Alt. of Magneto-electrical |
Photo-electric (a.) Acting by the operation of both light and electricity |
Point (v. t. & i.) To appoint. |
Point (n.) That which pricks or pierces |
point after point after touchdown extra point | in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown |
springboard jumping-off point point of departure | a beginning from which an enterprise is launched, he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own, reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions, the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out |
three-point landing | a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time |
electrotherapy galvanism electric healing electrical healing | the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) |
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 |
electric shock electrical shock shock | a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body, subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response, electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks |
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' |
Stations Stations of the Cross | (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary |
point duty | the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection |
electric shock | the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture, they used cattle prods to administer electric shocks |
three-point turn | the act of turning a vehicle around in a limited space by moving in a series of back and forward arcs |
electric eel Electrophorus electric | eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body |
electric ray crampfish numbfish torpedo | any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges |
bluepoint blue point | small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island |
blue point Siamese | Siamese cat having a bluish creamolored body and dark grey points |
electric catfish Malopterurus electricus | freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ |
air base air station | a base for military aircraft |
basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
battery electric battery | a device that produces electricity, may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series |
beach wagon station wagon wagon estate car beach waggon station waggon waggon | a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat |
booster booster amplifier booster station relay link relay station relay transmitter | an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal |
broadcasting station broadcast station | a station equipped to broadcast radio or television programs |
bus terminal bus depot bus station coach station | a terminal that serves bus passengers |
cell electric cell | a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction |
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 |
circuit electrical circuit electric circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow |
cord electric cord | a light insulated conductor for household use |
corner street corner turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
depth charge depth bomb | a bomb that explodes at a preset depth under water, antisubmarine device |
diamond point | a very hard small point made from a diamond |
diesel-electric locomotive diesel-electric | a locomotive driven by the electric current generated by a diesel engine |
disposal electric pig garbage disposal | a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage |
distributor point breaker point point | a contact in the distributor, as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs |
dressing station aid station | (military) a station located near a combat area for giving first aid to the wounded |
electric drill | a rotating power drill powered by an electric motor |
drum sander electric sander sander smoother | a power tool used for sanding wood, an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor |
dry point | a steel needle for engraving without acid on a bare copper plate |
dry point | a print produced by dry point engraving |
electric electric automobile electric car | a car that is powered by electricity |
electric bell | a bell activated by the magnetic effect of an electric current |
electric blanket | a blanket containing and electric heating element that can be controlled to the desired temperature by a rheostat |
electric chair chair death chair hot seat | an instrument of execution by electrocution, resembles an ordinary seat for one person, the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair |
electric clock | a clock using a small electric motor |
electric-discharge lamp gas-discharge lamp | an electric lamp in which the light comes from an electric discharge between two electrodes in a glass tube |
electric fan blower | a fan run by an electric motor |
electric frying pan | a frying pan heated by electricity |