barrel vs charge

barrel

verb
  • To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner. 

  • To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels. 

  • To assume the shape of a barrel; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit barrel distortion, where the sides bulge outwards. 

noun
  • The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom. 

  • The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1). 

  • A waste receptacle. 

  • A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum. 

  • The ribs and belly of a horse or pony. 

  • A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended. 

  • A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case 

  • The hollow basal part of a feather. 

  • A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. 

  • A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment. 

  • Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus. 

  • Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.) 

  • A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play. 

charge

verb
  • To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback. 

  • To cause to take on an electric charge. 

  • To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in. 

  • To assign (a debit) to an account. 

  • 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. 

  • To pay on account, as by using a credit card. 

  • To attack by moving forward quickly in a group. 

  • To call to account; to challenge. 

  • To impute or ascribe. 

  • To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet. 

  • To commit a charging foul. 

  • To add to or represent on. 

  • To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball. 

  • To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog) 

  • To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.). 

  • To ornament with or cause to bear. 

  • To assume as a bearing. 

  • To replenish energy. 

  • To assign a duty or responsibility to. 

  • To formally accuse (a person) of a crime. 

noun
  • An instruction. 

  • Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher. 

  • A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge. 

  • A load or burden; cargo. 

  • A ground attack against a prepared enemy. 

  • The amount of money levied for a service. 

  • The scope of someone's responsibility. 

  • A forceful forward movement. 

  • An address given at a church service concluding a visitation. 

  • An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of. 

  • A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack. 

  • A sort of plaster or ointment. 

  • An electric charge. 

  • An image displayed on an escutcheon. 

  • Cannabis. 

  • An accusation by a person or organization. 

  • A measured amount of explosive. 

  • An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender. 

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