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 |
Claim
(v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right |
Claim
(v./.) To proclaim. |
Claim
(v./.) To call or name. |
Claim
(v./.) To assert |
Claim
(v. i.) To be entitled to anything |
Claim
(n.) A demand of a right or supposed right |
Claim
(n.) A right to claim or demand something |
Claim
(n.) The thing claimed or demanded |
Claim
(n.) A loud call. |
Double-charge
(v. t.) To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder. |
Double-charge
(v. t.) To overcharge. |
Erecto-patent
(a.) Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading. |
Erecto-patent
(a.) Standing partially spread and erect |
Incurring
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incur |
Liable
(v. t.) Bound or obliged in law or equity |
| incurring | acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable), incurring debts is easier than paying them |
assumption
laying claim | the act of taking possession of or power over something, his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba, the Nazi assumption of power in , he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts |
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 |
| patent infringement | violation of the rights secured by a patent |
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' |
| claim | demand for something as rightful or due, they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day |
| insurance claim | demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy |
| baggage claim | an area in an airport where arriving passengers can collect the luggage that has been carried in the hold of the aircraft |
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 |
patent log
screw log
taffrail log | a cigar-shaped log with rotary fins that measure the ship's speed |
| patent medicine | medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription |
subject
content
depicted object | something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation, a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject |
| claim title | an informal right to something, his claim on her attentions, his title to fame |
title
claim | an established or recognized right, a strong legal claim to the property, he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate, he staked his claim |
| patent right | the right granted by a patent, especially the exclusive right to an invention |
| patent ductus arteriosus | a ductus arteriosus that failed to close at birth, may require surgical correction |
topic
subject issue
matter | some situation or event that is thought about, he kept drifting off the topic, he had been thinking about the subject for several years, it is a matter for the police |
| patent system | a legal system for protecting the rights of inventors |
discipline
subject
subject area
subject field
field
field of study
study bailiwick | a branch of knowledge, in what discipline is his doctorate?, teachers should be well trained in their subject, anthropology is the study of human beings |
conservation of charge
conservation of electricity | the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system |
| patent law | that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing patents |
| subject | (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence, the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated |
| subject | (logic) the first term of a proposition |
nominative
nominative case
subject case | the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb |
| claim form | a form to use when filing a claim |
| patent patent of invention | a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention |
blotter
day book
police blotter
rap sheet
charge sheet | the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station |
| patent application | an application for sole rights to an invention |
patent
letters patent | an official document granting a right or privilege |
charge
complaint | (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense, he was arrested on a charge of larceny |
message
content
subject matter
substance | what a communication that is about something is about |
subject
topic
theme | the subject matter of a conversation or discussion, he didn't want to discuss that subject, it was a very sensitive topic, his letters were always on the theme of love |
| short subject | a brief film, often shown prior to showing the feature |
| claim | an assertion of a right (as to money or property), his claim asked for damages |
| claim | an assertion that something is true or factual, his claim that he was innocent, evidence contradicted the government's claims |
| 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 |
| call claim | a demand especially in the phrase the call of duty |
wage claim
pay claim | the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives |
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 |
Patent and Trademark Office Database
Patent Office | the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones |
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 |
national
subject | a person who owes allegiance to that nation, a monarch has a duty to his subjects |