Function vs Charge - What's the difference?

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Function is a related term of charge.

As a noun function

is what something does or is used for.

As a verb function

is to have a function.

As a proper noun charge is

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function

English

Noun

(en noun)

What something does or is used for.

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A professional or official position.

(senseid)An official or social occasion.

A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.

(mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.

(computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.

(biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.

(chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.

(anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.

Synonyms

* (what something does or is used for) aim, intention, purpose, role, use * (professional or official position) occupation, office, part, role * (official or social occasion) affair, occasion, social occasion, social function * many-to-one map, many-to-one mapping, mathematical function, operation, transformation * procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine

Hypernyms

* (mathematics) relation

Derived terms

* absolutely continuous function * acidity function * adaptive-control function * additive function * additive set function * adjoint wave function * aggregate function * Airy function * Airy stress function * algebraic function * almost-periodic function * alternating function * analytic function * analytical function generator * anatomy of function * antihyperbolic function * antisymmetric wave function * antisymmetrized wave function * antitrigonometric function * arc-hyperbolic function * autocorrelation function * Baire function * bei function * ber function * Bessel function * beta function * bifunctional * biharmonic function * Bloch function * Boolean function * Borel measurable function * bounded function * boxcar function * Brillouin function * built-in function * Cantor function * characteristic function * circular function * cofunction * comparable function * complementary function * complete class of decision function * composite function * compressadensity function * computable function * concave function * confluent hypergeometric function * conjugate convex function * connect function * constant function * constraint function * contiguous function * continuous function * convex function * cosine function * cost function * countably additive set function * countably subadditive set function * critical function * cross-correlation function * cyclosymmetric function * cylinder function * decreasing function * delta function * density function * describing function * differentiable function * difunctional * digamma function * diode function generator * Dirac wave function * discriminant function * disfunction * dissipation function * driving-point function * dysfunction * effectively computable function * eigenfunction * eigenfunction expansion * Einstein partition function * electron wave function * electronic work function * elementary function * elementary symmetric function * elliptic function * Emden function * entire function * equivalent propositional function * error function * essentially bounded function * Euler's phi function * even function * excitation function * executive ego function * explicit function * exponential density function * exponential function * exponential generating function * feedback transfer function * Fermi-Dirac distribution function * form function * forward transfer function * Fowler function * frontogenetic function * function code * function failure safety * function generator * function key * function multiplier * function object * function space * function switch * function table * function unit * function-evaluation routine * functional * functionalism * functionality * gamma function * general-purpose function generator * generalized transmission function * generating function * Green's function * Hamiltonian function * Hammett acidity function * Hankel function * harmonic function * Heaviside unit function * hei function * her function * Hildebrand function * homogeneous function * Hugoniot function * hybrid wave function * hyperbolic function * hypergeometric function * identity function * implicit function * implicit function theorem * impulse function * incidence function * incomplete beta function * incomplete gamma function * increasing function * independent function * influence function * information function of a partition * initial mass function * inner function * integrable function * integral function * invariant function * inverse function * inverse function theorem * inverse hyperbolic function * inverse trigonometric function * inverting function * J function * Jacobian elliptic function * jump function * kei function * ker function * Koebe function * Lagrange stream function * Lagrangian function * * * Langevin function * left-continuous function * Legendre function * Leverett function * line function * linear discriminant function * linear function * Liouville function * locally integrable function * logarithmic trigonometric function * logarithmically convex function * loop transfer function * loss function * lower semicontinuous function * luminosity function * Lyapunov function * malfunction * malfunction routine * Massieu function * mathematical function program * Mathieu function * Maxwell's stress function * measurable function * membership function * meromorphic function * microspec function * minimal brain dysfunction syndrome * Minkowski distance function * * modified Bessel function * modified Hankel function * moment generating function * momentum wave function * monofunctional compound * monogenic analytic function * monotone function * monotone nondecreasing function * monotone nonincreasing function * monotonic increasing function * Morera's stress function * multifunction array radar * multilinear function * multiplicative number-theoretic function * natural function * Neumann function * nonfunctional packages software * normal density function * normalized function * normalized support function * NOT function * nuclear response function * number-theoretic function * objective function * odd function * optimizing control function * orthogonal function * orthonormal function * parabolic cylinder function * partial function * partial recursive function * particle distribution function * partition function * Patterson function * penalty function * periodic function * phase function * piecewise-continuous function * Planck function * point characteristic function * point function * Poisson density function * polynomial function * positive linear functional * positive real function * power function * predefined function * principal function * probability density function * probability mass function * programmed function key * proper rational function * propositional function * psi function * pulsed transfer function * quadratic function * Rademacher function * radial distribution function * radicofunctional name * random function * rational function * Rayleigh's dissipation function * real-valued function * recursive function * regular function * regulatory control function * restricted function * Riccati-Bessel function * Riemann function * Riemann P function * Riemann zeta function * sample function * scalar function * scattering function * * self-dual switching function * self-organizing function * sensitivity function * separated-function synchrotron * set function * sharpness function technique * shear-viscosity function * sigma function * simple function * simply periodic function * single-valued function * sinusoidal function * skewed density function * Smarandache function * source function * special function * spectral function * spherical Bessel function * staff function * step function * step-function generator * Stokes stream function * stress function * subadditive function * subadditive set function * subfunction * subfunctional * subharmonic function * subsine function * summable function * superadditive function * superharmonic function * support function * switch function * switching function * symmetric function * tapped-potentiometer function generator * test function * tetrafunctional molecule * thermionic work function * thermodynamic function of state * theta function * tool-function controller * torsion function * transcendental function * transfer function * transition function * transmission function * trigamma function * trigonometric cofunction * trigonometric function * truth function * Turing computable function * universal transmission function * universal wavelength function * upper semicontinuous function * user-defined function * variable diode function generator * vector function * viscous dissipation function * wave function * Wannier function * Weierstrass function * Weierstrassian elliptic function * weight function * work function

Verb

(en verb)

to have a function

to carry on a function; to be in action

Synonyms

* (to have a function) officiate, serve * (to carry on a function) go, operate, run, work

Antonyms

* (to carry on a function) malfunction

charge

English

(wikipedia charge)

Noun

(en noun)

The scope of someone's responsibility.

The child was in the nanny's charge .

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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.

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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

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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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