charge

«charge» in Mova's school dictionary: to ask money for something — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (charge, charges, charged, charging); noun (a charge, charges)

meaning for a pupil

1) To charge is to ask money for something. A charge is the price or fee. tree →

2) To charge a phone or battery is to fill it with electric power. tree →

3) To charge is to run hard straight at something, like a bull charging. tree →

4) To be in charge is to be the one who leads and decides. tree →

5) To charge someone with a crime is to say officially that they did it. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: a price or a fee, often per hour or per item (cost = rate × units, plus a fixed charge); science: electric charge, a battery charging up, positive and negative charges; everyday life: phones and tablets need charging, a delivery charge, «free of charge» means it costs nothing; school: the teacher is in charge of the class; stories: knights charge into battle, an angry bull charges

examples

• The shop charges 5 dollars an hour. tree →
• They charge 2 dollars per bag. tree →
• There is a 3 dollar delivery charge. tree →
• Her phone charges 10 percent every 15 minutes. tree →
• Entry to the museum is free of charge. tree →
• Ms Lee is in charge of the school trip. tree →
• Plug in the tablet so it can charge overnight. tree →
• The bull charged at the gate. tree →
• Rubbing a balloon gives it an electric charge. tree →
• A snap too much and the bulls will charge. tree →

note

A price per unit: cost = rate × units, plus a fixed charge. Trap: a one-time charge is added once, not per item. «Free of charge» = 0 dollars. «In charge of» means leading, not paying. Safety: do not leave a phone charging on your bed.

In the corpora

• Banks pay interest on savings, and they charge interest when you borrow.
• An overdraft lets you spend below zero, which is borrowing, and banks charge high interest on it.
• Some cash machines charge a fee for taking out money, while most bank ones are free.
• Buy now pay later splits a purchase into instalments; it is still borrowing, with charges if a payment is late.
• "Charged" with a crime is not the same as "guilty"; the court decides, so wait for it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «charge» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.