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Charge vs Accused - What's the difference?

charge | accused |

As nouns the difference between charge and accused

is that charge is the scope of someone's responsibility while accused is the person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.

As verbs the difference between charge and accused

is that charge is to place a burden upon; to assign a duty or responsibility to while accused is past tense of accuse.

As a proper noun Chargé

is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in France.

As an adjective accused is

having been accused; being the target of accusations.

charge

English

(wikipedia charge)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The scope of someone's responsibility.
  • The child was in the nanny's charge .
  • * 1848 April 24, , opinion, United States ''v.'' Hutchison'', as reported in ''The Pennsylvania law Journal'', June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,''The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Pz-TAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA366&dq=key]:
  • He had the key of a closet in which the moneys of this fund were kept, but the outer key of the vault, of which the closet formed part, was in the charge of another person.
  • Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
  • The child was a charge of the nanny.
  • A load or burden; cargo.
  • The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
  • The amount of money levied for a service.
  • There will be a charge of five dollars.
  • An instruction.
  • I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
  • (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
  • Pickett did not die leading his famous charge .
  • An accusation.
  • * 2005 , .
  • we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge ;
    That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
  • An electric charge.
  • (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
  • A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
  • (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
  • A forceful forward movement.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=March 2 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Abou Diaby should have added Arsenal's fourth in the 50th minute after he danced round a host of defenders on a charge towards goal}}
  • A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
  • to bring a weapon to the charge
  • A sort of plaster or ointment.
  • Weight; import; value.
  • * Shakespeare
  • many suchlike as's of great charge
  • A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds. Also charre.
  • Derived terms

    * access charge * banzai charge * carrying charge * chargeback * chargecard * charge conjugation * charge density * charge hand * charge nurse * charge of quarters * charge-off * charge plate * charge sheet * color charge/colour charge * cover charge * deferred charge * depth charge * electric charge * finance charge * fixed charge * floating charge * free of charge * get a charge out of * in charge * late charge * negative charge * nonrecurring charge * partial charge * positive charge * press charges * redemption charge * reverse-charge * reverse the charge * sales charge * service charge * shaped charge * space charge * specific charge * take charge * trickle charge * user charge

    Verb

    (charg)
  • To place a burden upon; to assign a duty or responsibility to.
  • * John Locke
  • the charging of children's memories with rules
  • * Bible, Joshua xxii. 5
  • Moses charged you to love the Lord your God.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
  • # To formally accuse of a crime.
  • I'm charging you with grand theft auto.
  • # (ambitransitive) To require payment (for goods, services, etc.) of.
  • to charge high for goods
  • #* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
  • Will I get charged for this service?
  • # To assign (a debit) to an account.
  • Let's charge this to marketing.
  • # To pay on account, (as) by using a credit card.
  • Can I charge my Amazon purchase to Paypal?
  • Can I charge this purchase?
  • # To impute or ascribe.
  • #* Dryden
  • No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.
  • # To call to account; to challenge.
  • #* Shakespeare
  • to charge me to an answer
  • # To ornament with or cause to bear.
  • to charge an architectural member with a moulding
  • # (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
  • He charges three roses.
  • # (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
  • He charges his shield with three roses or.
  • To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
  • Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
  • * Shakespeare
  • their battering cannon charged to the mouths
  • # To cause to take on an electric charge.
  • Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
  • # To add energy to (a battery).
  • He charged the battery overnight.
  • # To add energy to a battery within.
  • Don't forget to charge the drill.
  • # (intransitive, of a, battery) To gain energy.
  • The battery is still charging : I can't use it yet.
  • # (intransitive, of a, device containing a battery) To have a battery within gain energy.
  • His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.
  • To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
  • # (military, transitive, and, intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
  • The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.
  • # (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
  • # (cricket, of a, batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
  • To squat on the belly and be still; a command given by a hunter to a dog.
  • Derived terms

    * charge down * charger * charge up * discharge * double-charge * overcharge * recharge * undercharge

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    accused

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (accuse)
  • Noun

    (accused)
  • (legal) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
  • Usage notes

    * (noun) Preceded by the word the .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having been accused; being the target of accusations.
  • * 1883 , Charlotte Mary Yonge, Landmarks of Recent History, 1770-1883 , Walter Smith (publisher), pages 11–12:
  • This power chiefly fell to the queen, and she was more accused than ever of too much leaning towards her own country;
  • * 1891 , Charles Grant Robertson, Caesar Borgia: The Stanhope Essay for 1891 , B.H. Blackwell, pages 8–9:
  • Naples had an almost stronger preference for the interposition of Spain, while the great republic of Venice in the eyes of Italy stood accused of aspiring to bring the whole peninsula under its sway,
  • * 2007 , Patricia Love and Steven Stosny, How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking about It: Finding Love Beyond Words , Random House, ISBN 9780767923170, page 188:
  • If she felt unimportant, you showed her that she was important to you. If she felt accused , you reassured her. If she felt guilty, you helped her feel better.

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