Charge vs Summons - 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 call to do something, especially to come.
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(legal) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
(military) A demand for surrender.
To serve someone with a summons.
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(summon)
Charge is a related term of summons.
As a proper noun charge
is a commune in the indre-et-loire department in france.As a noun summons is
a call to do something, especially to come.As a verb summons is
to serve someone with a summons or summons can be (summon).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
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sumunce (modern French semonce), from popular (etyl) .Noun
(es)- special summonses by the king
- this summons unfit either to dispute or disobey
- He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded.