Onset vs Charge - What's the difference?
onset | charge | Synonyms |
A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
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(medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
(phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
(acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
(obsolete) A setting about; a beginning.
* (rfdate) (Francis Bacon),
(obsolete) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
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, title= (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
(obsolete) To set about; to begin.
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.
* Shakespeare
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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* Shakespeare
# To formally accuse of a crime.
# (ambitransitive) To require payment (for goods, services, etc.) of.
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, title= # To assign (a debit) to an account.
# To pay on account, (as) by using a credit card.
# To impute or ascribe.
#* Dryden
# To call to account; to challenge.
#* Shakespeare
# 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.
* Shakespeare
# 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.
Onset is a synonym of charge.
As a noun onset
is a rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.As a verb onset
is (obsolete) to assault; to set upon.As a proper noun charge is
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Noun
(en noun)- The onset and retire / Of both your armies.
- Who on that day the word of onset gave.
- There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
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Verb
Anagrams
* English irregular verbscharge
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.