Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that charges, such as an instrument that charges or replenishes storage batteries.
- n. A horse trained for battle; a cavalry horse.
- n. A large shallow dish; a platter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which charges.
- n. A war-horse.
- n. In mining, an implement for charging horizontal bore-holes with powder.
- n. In gunnery, a contrivance for measuring and placing in a gun a certain quantity or charge of powder or shot.
- n. A large flat dish or platter.
- n. In England, in the middle ages, a servant or officer of the household whose duty was to bear the meats to table at banquets.
Wiktionary
- n. A device that charges or recharges.
- n. A large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry. They were of a lighter build than a destrier
- n. A large platter.
- n. One who charges.
- n. firearms A speedloader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine.
- n. prison A rectal concealment container for prohibited material such as money, drugs and tools.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which charges.
- n. An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge.
- n. obsolete A large dish.
- n. A horse for battle or parade.
WordNet 3.0
- n. formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
- n. a device for charging or recharging batteries
Etymologies
- to charge + -er (Wiktionary)
- Middle English chargeour, from Old French chargeor, from chargier, to load; see charge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“(If a suitable charger is available that is) "the paranoid style" or”
“Did you know that when a phone charger is plugged into an outlet, it still uses power even if not hooked up to a phone?”
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“New battery charger is supposedly really fast - from 0 to 50 percent in just 3 minutes”
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“My charger is gone, and the Bizarro is thirty dollars richer.”
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“Unless your car charger is plugged into your own private wind farm, the current you draw might be that least smidgin required to keep that last coal fired power plant on line – so the electricity you use causes carbon dioxide as if you were wired direct to a coal fired plant.”
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“A very small amount of logic, specific for each cell phone model the charger is marketed for, could be embedded inside the plastic transformer block.”
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“May 03, 2009 at 5: 03 AM which charger is shown in the picture associated with #8 that digitally shows the state of charge on each individual battery gmerin”
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“Still, getting the majority of the industry behind a standard charger is a great thing for most consumers, who will happily accept one fewer cord cluttering up their outlet.”
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“Because you are setting up a system to put the next bunch of republicans in charger of your health care.”
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“And this vehicle is on board charger, which is very efficient and charges from seven to eight hours.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘charger’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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horses
everything horses
horse, bay, bloodhorse, bloodstock, bolter, broncho, bronco, brumby, bucker, buckjumper, cob, cocktail and 200 more...
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A Garnish of Pewter
A list of pewter items and wares gleaned from the literature, or found listed for sale in antique catalogs - from spoons to stills and chamber pots to church cups. A synonym for the larger, heavier...
teapot, porringer, flagon, wine funnel, pepper shaker, broth bowl, basin, candlesticks, tankard, beaker, measure, chalice and 155 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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Medieval Horse-Related Words Listed b...
Just what it sounds like.
destrier, percheron, courser, rouncey, draught, joust, tournament, knight, squire, charger, lance, men-at-arms and 83 more...
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at the zoo - domestics
mastiff, colt, alpaca, piglet, thoroughbred, camel, arabian, bull, calf, charger, cow, destrier and 14 more...
Tweets
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sonofgroucho I wondered why my mobile phone used to be so hard to hold onto! Dec 2, 2007