charge vs walk

charge

verb
  • 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 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 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. 

walk

verb
  • To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls. 

  • To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks. 

  • To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person. 

  • To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out. 

  • To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself. 

  • To leave, resign. 

  • To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting. 

  • To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in. 

  • To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation. 

  • To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run. 

  • To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement). 

  • To take for a walk or accompany on a walk. 

  • Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. 

  • To travel (a distance) by walking. 

  • To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking. 

  • To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt. 

  • To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty. 

noun
  • A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards. 

  • A distance walked. 

  • A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. 

  • Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park. 

  • A manner of walking; a person's style of walking. 

  • An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground. 

  • A trip made by walking. 

  • An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls". 

  • In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. 

  • A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting. 

  • An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. 

  • A person's conduct or course in life. 

  • An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees. 

  • A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. 

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