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Charging vs Charged - What's the difference?

charging | charged |

As verbs the difference between charging and charged

is that charging is present participle of charge while charged is (charge).

As a noun charging

is (countable) an act or process of charging (as of a battery).

charging

English

Verb

(head)
  • Present participle of charge.

    • Noun

  • (countable) An act or process of charging (as of a battery).
  • (uncountable, basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
    • Smith is called for charging , and the Nimrods will get the ball.

    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?}}