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. |
Fore-night
(n.) The evening between twilight and bedtime. |
Night
(n.) That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise |
Night
(n.) Darkness |
Night
(n.) Intellectual and moral darkness |
Night
(n.) A state of affliction |
Night
(n.) The period after the close of life |
Night
(n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. |
Night-blooming
(a.) Blooming in the night. |
Night-eyed
(a.) Capable of seeing at night |
Night-faring
(a.) Going or traveling in the night. |
Twelfth-night
(n.) The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches. |
| one-night stand | a performance in one place on one night only |
nightlife
night life | the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.), a futile search for intelligent nightlife, in the summer the nightlife shifts to the dance clubs |
| night game | a game played under artificial illumination at night |
| nightlife night life | the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion |
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 |
| one-night stand | a brief sexual encounter lasting only for a single night, he ran through a series of loveless one-night stands |
| 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' |
| watch night | a devotional service (especially on New Year's Eve) |
| night-stop | a break in a journey for the night |
| night bird | any bird associated with night: owl, nightingale, nighthawk, etc |
| night raven | any bird that cries at night |
owl
bird of Minerva
bird of night
hooter | nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes |
| night lizard | small secretive nocturnal lizard of southwestern North America and Cuba, bear live young |
night snake
Hypsiglena torquata | nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico |
night heron
night raven | nocturnal or crepuscular herons |
blackrowned night heron
Nycticorax nycticorax | night heron of both Old and New Worlds |
yellowrowned night heron
Nyctanassa violacea | North American night heron |
cabaret
nightclub
night club
club nightspot | a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink, don't expect a good meal at a cabaret, the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night, he played the drums at a jazz club |
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 |
| night bell | a doorbell to be used at night |
| night latch | doorlock operated by a knob on the inside and a key on the outside |
| night-light | light (as a candle or small bulb) that burns in a bedroom at night (as for children or invalids) |
| night-line | a fishing line with baited hooks left in the water to catch fish over night |
| Saturday night special | a cheap handgun that is easily obtained |
night vision
night-sight
scotopic vision
twilight vision | the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight) |
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 |
| night letter | a cheaper form of telegram sent for delivery the next day |
| good night | a conventional expression of farewell |
| 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 |
| night terror | an emotional episode (usually in young children) in which the person awakens in terror with feelings of anxiety and fear but is unable to remember any incident that might have provoked those feelings |
opening
opening night
curtain raising | the first performance (as of a theatrical production), the opening received good critical reviews |
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 |
night shift
graveyard shift | workers who work during the night (as midnight to a.m.) |
| night court | a criminal court (in large cities) that sits at night |
| night school | a school that holds classes in the evenings for students who cannot attend during the day |
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 |
Nox
Night | Roman goddess of night, daughter of Erebus, counterpart of Greek Nyx |
| 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 |