charge vs load

charge

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

  • An instruction. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To cause to take on an electric charge. 

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

  • 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. 

load

noun
  • The charge of powder for a firearm. 

  • A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind. 

  • A burden; a weight to be carried. 

  • The volume of work required to be performed. 

  • A unit of measure for various quantities. 

  • The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation. 

  • Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit. 

  • The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc. 

  • The viral load 

  • A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time. 

  • Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle 

  • Nonsense; rubbish. 

  • prepaid phone credit 

  • The electrical current or power delivered by a device. 

  • A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work. 

  • A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar. 

  • A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle. 

  • A large number or amount. 

  • The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc. 

verb
  • To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage). 

  • To put runners on first, second and third bases 

  • To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome. 

  • To provide in abundance. 

  • To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage. 

  • To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar. 

  • To receive a load. 

  • To be placed into storage or conveyance. 

  • To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance. 

  • to top up or purchase phone credits 

  • To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory. 

  • To be put into use in an apparatus. 

  • To put a load on something. 

  • To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way. 

  • To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc. 

  • To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory. 

  • To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition. 

  • To fill (an apparatus) with raw material. 

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