charge vs drive

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. 

drive

verb
  • To move forcefully. 

  • To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. 

  • To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten. 

  • To cause (a mechanism) to operate. 

  • To hit the ball with a drive. 

  • To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle. 

  • To motivate; to provide an incentive for. 

  • To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle. 

  • To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship). 

  • To urge, press, or bring to a point or state. 

  • To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. 

  • To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air. 

  • To clear, by forcing away what is contained. 

  • To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle). 

  • To move (something) by hitting it with great force. 

  • To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. 

  • To operate (an aircraft). 

  • To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal. 

  • To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind. 

  • To cause animals to flee out of. 

  • To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force. 

  • (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on. 

  • To cause to become. 

  • To compel (to do something). 

  • To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field. 

  • To be the dominant party in a sex act. 

noun
  • Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation. 

  • A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective. 

  • An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift. 

  • Desire or interest. 

  • A stroke made with a driver. 

  • An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk. 

  • An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity. 

  • An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd. 

  • A driveway. 

  • A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount. 

  • A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. 

  • Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. 

  • A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle). 

  • A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data. 

  • A straight level shot or pass. 

  • An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted. 

  • A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket. 

  • A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part. 

  • A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive. 

  • A type of public roadway. 

  • A ball struck in a flat trajectory. 

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