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Charge is a related term of shoot.


As a proper noun charge

is a commune in the indre-et-loire department in france.

As a verb shoot is

to launch a projectile.

As a noun shoot is

the emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

As an interjection shoot is

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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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    shoot

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) shoten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To launch a projectile.
  • # (label) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
  • # (label) To fire (a projectile).
  • #* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • If you please / To shoot an arrow that self way.
  • # (label) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
  • # (label) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
  • # (label) To ejaculate.
  • # To begin to speak.
  • # (label) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
  • # To dismiss or do away with.
  • # To photograph.
  • To move or act quickly or suddenly.
  • # (label) To move very quickly and suddenly.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.
  • #* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
  • It didn't take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges
  • # To go over or pass quickly through.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • Sheshoots the Stygian sound.
  • # (label) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
  • # (label) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
  • #* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • Thy words shoot through my heart.
  • # To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
  • #* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
  • These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.
  • # (label) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
  • #* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.
  • # To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
  • #* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
  • an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle
  • #* (1800-1859)
  • a pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores
  • # To send to someone.
  • (label) To act or achieve.
  • # (label) To lunge.
  • # (label) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
  • # To make the stated score.
  • (label) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
  • To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
  • To develop, move forward.
  • # To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
  • #* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • But the wild olive shoots , and shades the ungrateful plain.
  • # To grow; to advance.
  • #* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • Well shot in years he seemed.
  • #* (1700-1748)
  • Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot .
  • # (label) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
  • # To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out .
  • #* Bible, (Psalms) xxii. 7
  • They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
  • To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
  • * (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
  • There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
  • (label) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
  • * (Joseph Moxon) (1627-1691)
  • two pieces of wood that are shot , that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel
  • To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.(w)
  • * (1809-1892)
  • The tangled water courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
    Derived terms
    * like shooting fish in a barrel * re-shoot * shoot down * shooter * shoot from the hip * shoot from the lip * shoot one's bolt * shoot oneself in the foot * shoot one's mouth off * shoot one's wad * shoot the boots * shoot the bull * shoot the messenger * shoot up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
  • * Evelyn
  • Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.
  • A photography session.
  • A hunt or shooting competition.
  • (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
  • The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot .
  • * Drayton
  • One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
  • A rush of water; a rapid.
  • (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
  • (Knight)
  • (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
  • A shoat; a young pig.
  • An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
  • (Webster 1913)
    Derived terms
    * (hunt or shooting competition) turkey shoot

    Etymology 2

    minced oath for (shit)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Didn't you have a concert tonight?
    Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...
    Synonyms
    * (mild expletive) darn, dash, fiddlesticks, shucks