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As proper nouns the difference between charge and fair

is that charge is a commune in the indre-et-loire department in france while fair is .

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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    fair

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) fayr, feir, fager, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
  • :
  • :
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, year_published=2008
  • , edition=HTML, author=(Edgar Rice Burroughs), publisher=The Gutenberg Project , title= A Princess of Mars , passage="It was a purely scientific research party sent out by my father's father, the Jeddak of Helium, to rechart the air currents, and to take atmospheric density tests," replied the fair prisoner, in a low, well-modulated voice.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=2010, author=(Stephan Grundy)
  • , title= Beowulf , genre=Fiction, publisher=iUniverse, isbn=9781440156977, page=33 , passage=And yet he was also, though many generations separated them, distant cousin to the shining eoten-main Geard, whom the god Frea Ing had seen from afar and wedded; and to Scatha, the fair daughter of the old thurse Theasa, who had claimed a husband from among the gods as weregild for her father's slaying: often, it was said, the ugliest eotens would sire the fairest maids.}}
  • Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
  • :
  • :
  • *Book of Common Prayer
  • *:a fair white linen cloth
  • Light in color, pale, particularly as regards skin tone but also referring to blond hair.
  • :
  • *1677 , (Matthew Hale), The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature , page 200
  • *:the northern people large and fair -complexioned
  • *
  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair , and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
  • Just, equitable.
  • :
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  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • Adequate, reasonable, or decent.
  • :
  • *, chapter=3
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
  • Favorable to a ship's course.
  • Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.
  • :
  • *(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
  • *:You wish fair winds may waft him over.
  • Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.
  • :
  • *Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
  • *:The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged.
  • (lb) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
  • (lb) Between the baselines.
  • Synonyms
    * (beautiful) beautiful, pretty, lovely * (unblemished) pure, clean, neat * (light in color) pale * (just) honest, just, equitable
    Derived terms
    * all's fair in love and war * fair and square * fair cop * fair copy * fair go * fair play * fair sex * fair to middling * fair use * fair-weather friend * to be fair

    Noun

    (fair)
  • Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
  • When will we learn to distinguish between the fair and the foul?
  • (obsolete) A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
  • * 1744 , , act 2, scene 8
  • ''Love and Hymen, hand in hand,
    ''Come, restore the nuptial band!
    ''And sincere delights prepare
    ''To crown the hero and the fair .
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 39:
  • In enjoying, therefore, such place of rendezvous, the British fair ought to esteem themselves more happy than any of their foreign sisters
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.24:
  • If single, probably his plighted Fair / Has in his absence wedded some rich miser [...].
  • (obsolete) Fairness, beauty.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • A fair woman; a sweetheart.
  • * Shenstone
  • I have found out a gift for my fair .
  • (obsolete) Good fortune; good luck.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Now fair befall thee!

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
  • To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
  • To construct or design a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline or reduce air drag or water resistance.
  • (obsolete) To make fair or beautiful.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Fairing the foul.
    Synonyms
    * (to reduce air drag or water resistance) to streamline
    Derived terms
    * fair off * fair up * fairing

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably.
  • Derived terms
    * bid fair * fair and square

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) feire, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
  • An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
  • An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business.
  • A funfair, an amusement park.
  • Derived terms
    * funfair

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