Charge vs Load - What's the difference?
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The scope of someone's responsibility.
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Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
A load or burden; cargo.
The amount of money levied for a service.
An instruction.
(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
An accusation.
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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.
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A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
A sort of plaster or ointment.
Weight; import; value.
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A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds. Also charre.
To place a burden upon; to assign a duty or responsibility to.
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# To formally accuse of a crime.
# (ambitransitive) To require payment (for goods, services, etc.) of.
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# To pay on account, (as) by using a credit card.
# To impute or ascribe.
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# To call to account; to challenge.
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# To ornament with or cause to bear.
# (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
# (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
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.
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# To cause to take on an electric charge.
# To add energy to (a battery).
# To add energy to a battery within.
# (intransitive, of a, battery) To gain energy.
# (intransitive, of a, device containing a battery) To have a battery within gain energy.
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.
# (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.
A burden; a weight to be carried.
(figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind .
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A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
(in combination)
(often, in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
The volume of work required to be performed.
(engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
(electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
(engineering) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
(electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
(obsolete) A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.
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A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
The charge of powder for a firearm.
(obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
(vulgar, slang) The semen of an ejaculation.
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To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
To put a load on something.
To receive a load.
To be placed into storage or conveyance.
To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
To be put into use in an apparatus.
(computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
(computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
(baseball) To put runners on first]], [[second base, second and third bases
To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
To encumber with something negative.
To place as an encumbrance.
To provide in abundance.
(transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
(archaic) To magnetize.
Load is a synonym of charge.
In transitive terms the difference between charge and load
is that charge is to squat on the belly and be still; a command given by a hunter to a dog while load is to provide in abundance.In intransitive terms the difference between charge and load
is that charge is to move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback while load is to be put into use in an apparatus.As a proper noun Chargé
is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in France.charge
English
(wikipedia charge)Noun
(en noun)- The child was in the nanny's charge .
- 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.
- The child was a charge of the nanny.
- The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
- There will be a charge of five dollars.
- I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
- Pickett did not die leading his famous charge .
- we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge ;
- That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
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- to bring a weapon to the charge
- many suchlike as's of great charge
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 chargeVerb
(charg)- the charging of children's memories with rules
- Moses charged you to love the Lord your God.
- Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
- I'm charging you with grand theft auto.
- to charge high for goods
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- Will I get charged for this service?
- Let's charge this to marketing.
- Can I charge my Amazon purchase to Paypal?
- Can I charge this purchase?
- No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.
- to charge me to an answer
- to charge an architectural member with a moulding
- He charges three roses.
- He charges his shield with three roses or.
- Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
- their battering cannon charged to the mouths
- Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
- He charged the battery overnight.
- Don't forget to charge the drill.
- The battery is still charging : I can't use it yet.
- His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.
- The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.
Derived terms
* charge down * charger * charge up * discharge * double-charge * overcharge * recharge * underchargeStatistics
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English
Noun
(en noun)- I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
- Our life's a load .
- I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.
- The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
- She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
- I got loads of presents for my birthday!
- I got a load of emails about that.
- Will our web servers be able to cope with that load ?
- Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
- I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
- Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
- If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.
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- Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out
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- It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew a load down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet.
Synonyms
* charge, freightDerived terms
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- The dock workers refused to load the ship.
- The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
- He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
- The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading .
- ''The truck is designed to load easily.
- The containers load quickly and easily .
- I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
- Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.
- The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
- The cartridge was designed to load easily.
- Click OK to load the selected data.
- This program takes an age to load .
- He walks to load the bases.
- You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
- The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
- The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
- The new owners loaded debt on the company.
- He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
- He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
- to load wine
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