Charge
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To place a burden upon. To assign a duty to. To formally accuse of a crime. To assign a debit to an account. To pay on account, as by using a credit card. To cause to take on an electric charge. To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat, on horseback or both. To attack by moving forward quickly in a group. To commit a charging foul. (of a batsman) To take a few steps doen the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball. 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.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: responsibility. 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. The amount of money levied for a service. An instruction. A ground attack against a prepared enemy. An accusation. An electric charge. An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge. An image displayed on an escutcheon.
Example sentence: The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.
Bang
Part of speech: interjection
Definition: a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.To engage in sexual intercourse.To hammer or to hit anything hard.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A sudden percussive noise.A strike upon an object causing such a noise.An explosion.(especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead. (British: fringe)The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!An act of sexual intercourse.plural: Brucellosis, a bacterial disease (a corruption of the alternate name "Bang's disease")An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.An explosive product, in miningAn abrupt left turn, in Boston slang; the opposite of this, an abrupt right turn, is a hang
Example sentence: String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.
