Charge vs Tip - What's the difference?
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The scope of someone's responsibility.
* 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]:
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.
* John Locke
* Bible, Joshua xxii. 5
* 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.
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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.
* 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.
The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
* 1848 , (Anne Bronte), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall :
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, title= A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
(music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
(Webster 1913)
To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act V:
* Hudibras
* Thomson
To knock over; to make fall down, to overturn.
To fall over.
To be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; to become unbalanced.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
(transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
To dump (refuse).
(US) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
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To deflect with one?s fingers, especially one?s fingertips
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(skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
An act of tipping up or tilting.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple ); a dump.
* 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?'', '' ,
* 2009 , Donna Kelly,
* 2009 , Rother District Council,
* 2009 , Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip'
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
(colloquial) A very untidy place.
The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
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* Jonathan Swift
To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
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A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
* 1897 , Bram Stoker, Dracula :
A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
A piece of advice.
To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
(AAVE) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
(AAVE) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
As a proper noun charge
is a commune in the indre-et-loire department in france.As a noun tip is
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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
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?
- 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
Circa 1225. Not recorded in Old English or Old Norse, but apparently cognate with Dutch tip, East Frisian tip, Danish tip, Swedish tipp. Perhaps cognate with Old English . Compare Albanian .Noun
(en noun)- When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
Synonyms
*(extreme end of something) extremityVerb
(tipp)- I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].
- truncheon tipped with iron head
- Tipped with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
Etymology 2
Possibly from Scandinavian, or a special use of Etymology 1.Verb
(tipp)- the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two [...].
- I tip my 40 to your memory.
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Derived terms
* tip off * tip one's hand * tip one's hat * tippableNoun
(en noun)page 389,
- As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.
'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip'], [http://www.hepburnadvocate.com.au/, The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital
- When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip .
Rother District Council Website
- There are two rubbish tip s in Rother.
The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd
- Computer collectibles saved from the tip
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Etymology 3
Of uncertain origin; apparently cognate with (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippa.Verb
(tipp)- A third rogue tips me by the elbow.
Noun
(tips)Etymology 4
Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain orign.Verb
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Derived terms
* tipper * tippingNoun
(en noun)- A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.