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Charged vs Powered - What's the difference?

charged | powered |

As verbs the difference between charged and powered

is that charged is (charge) while powered is (power).

As an adjective powered is

(of a device) self-powered, such as by an electric motor or an internal engine; not requiring external power, such as from a person or a horse.

charged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (charge)
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}

    powered

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a device) Self-powered, such as by an electric motor or an internal engine; not requiring external power, such as from a person or a horse.
  • * 2007 , John W. Diers and Aaron Isaacs, Twin Cities by Trolley: The Streetcar Era in Minneapolis and St. Paul , University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 0-8166-4358-X, page 145,
  • Around the same time, TCRT experimented with removing the motors on one of its older cars, turning it into an unpowered trailer that could be towed behind a powered car.

    Derived terms

    * battery-powered

    Verb

    (head)
  • (power)