The difference between Charge and Load

When used as nouns, charge means the scope of someone's responsibility, whereas load means a burden.

When used as verbs, charge means to assign a duty or responsibility to, whereas load means to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

check bellow for the other definitions of Charge and Load

  1. Charge as a noun:

    The scope of someone's responsibility.

    Examples:

    "The child was in the nanny's charge."

  2. Charge as a noun:

    Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.

    Examples:

    "The child was a charge of the nanny."

  3. Charge as a noun:

    A load or burden; cargo.

    Examples:

    "The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings."

  4. Charge as a noun:

    The amount of money levied for a service.

    Examples:

    "There will be a charge of five dollars."

  5. Charge as a noun:

    An instruction.

    Examples:

    "I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month."

  6. Charge as a noun (military):

    A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

    Examples:

    "Pickett did not die leading his famous charge."

  7. Charge as a noun:

    An accusation.

    Examples:

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    "That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust."

  8. Charge as a noun (physics, and, chemistry):

    An electric charge.

  9. Charge as a noun (basketball):

    An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

  10. Charge as a noun:

    A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.

  11. Charge as a noun (heraldry):

    An image displayed on an escutcheon.

  12. Charge as a noun:

    A forceful forward movement.

  13. Charge as a noun (weaponry):

    A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

    Examples:

    "to bring a weapon to the charge'"

  14. Charge as a noun (farriery):

    A sort of plaster or ointment.

  15. Charge as a noun (obsolete):

    Weight; import; value.

  16. Charge as a noun (historical, or, obsolete):

    A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a .

  17. Charge as a noun (ecclesiastical):

    An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

  1. Charge as a verb:

    To assign a duty or responsibility to.

  2. Charge as a verb (transitive):

    To assign (a debit) to an account.

    Examples:

    "Let's charge this to marketing."

  3. Charge as a verb (transitive):

    To pay on account, by using a credit card.

    Examples:

    "Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?"

    "Can I charge this purchase?"

  4. Charge as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).

    Examples:

    "to charge high for goods'' ''I won't charge you for the wheat"

  5. Charge as a verb (possibly archaic):

    To sell at a given price.

    Examples:

    "to charge coal at $5 per unit"

  6. Charge as a verb (law):

    To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

    Examples:

    "I'm charging you with assault and battery."

  7. Charge as a verb:

    To impute or ascribe.

  8. Charge as a verb:

    To call to account; to challenge.

  9. Charge as a verb (transitive):

    To place a burden or load on or in. To ornament with or cause to bear. To assume as a bearing. To add to or represent on.

    Examples:

    "to charge an architectural member with a moulding"

    "He charges three roses."

    "He charges his shield with three roses or."

  10. Charge as a verb (transitive):

    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 cause to take on an electric charge. To add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery). (Of a battery or a device containing a battery) To gain energy.

    Examples:

    "Charge your weapons; we're moving up."

    "Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly."

    "He charged the battery overnight."

    "Don't forget to charge the drill."

    "I charge my phone every night."

    "The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet."

    "His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever."

  11. Charge as a verb (intransitive):

    To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback. To attack by moving forward quickly in a group. To commit a charging foul. To take a few steps down 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.

    Examples:

    "The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines."

  12. Charge as a verb (transitive, of a, hunting dog):

    To lie on the belly and be still .

  1. Load as a noun:

    A burden; a weight to be carried.

    Examples:

    "I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack."

  2. Load as a noun (figuratively):

    A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.

  3. Load as a noun:

    A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

    Examples:

    "The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil."

    "She put another load of clothes in the washing machine."

  4. Load as a noun (in combination):

  5. Load as a noun (often, in the plural, colloquial):

    A large number or amount.

    Examples:

    "I got loads of presents for my birthday!"

    "I got a load of emails about that."

  6. Load as a noun:

    The volume of work required to be performed.

    Examples:

    "Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?"

  7. Load as a noun (engineering):

    The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.

    Examples:

    "Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons."

  8. Load as a noun (electrical engineering):

    The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

    Examples:

    "I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high."

  9. Load as a noun (engineering):

    A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.

  10. Load as a noun (electrical engineering):

    Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.

    Examples:

    "Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals."

  11. Load as a noun:

    A unit of measure for various quantities.

  12. Load as a noun:

    A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.

  13. Load as a noun:

    The charge of powder for a firearm.

  14. Load as a noun (obsolete):

    Weight or violence of blows.

    Examples:

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  15. Load as a noun (vulgar, slang):

    The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.

  16. Load as a noun (euphemism):

    Nonsense; rubbish.

    Examples:

    "What a load!"

  17. Load as a noun (computing):

    The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.

    Examples:

    "All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load."

  1. Load as a verb (transitive):

    To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

    Examples:

    "The dock workers refused to load the ship."

  2. Load as a verb (transitive):

    To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.

    Examples:

    "The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly."

    "He loaded his stuff into his storage locker."

  3. Load as a verb (intransitive):

    To put a load on something.

    Examples:

    "The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading."

  4. Load as a verb (intransitive):

    To receive a load.

    Examples:

    "The truck is designed to load easily''."

  5. Load as a verb (intransitive):

    To be placed into storage or conveyance.

    Examples:

    "The containers load quickly and easily''."

  6. Load as a verb (transitive):

    To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.

    Examples:

    "I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun."

  7. Load as a verb (transitive):

    To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.

    Examples:

    "Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting."

  8. Load as a verb (transitive):

    To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.

    Examples:

    "The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore."

  9. Load as a verb (intransitive):

    To be put into use in an apparatus.

    Examples:

    "The cartridge was designed to load easily."

  10. Load as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

    Examples:

    "Click OK to load the selected data."

  11. Load as a verb (intransitive, computing):

    To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

    Examples:

    "This program takes an age to load."

  12. Load as a verb (transitive, baseball):

    To put runners on first, second and third bases

    Examples:

    "He walks to load the bases."

  13. Load as a verb (transitive):

    To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.

    Examples:

    "You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview."

    "The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate."

  14. Load as a verb (transitive):

    To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.

  15. Load as a verb (transitive):

    To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.

    Examples:

    "The new owners had loaded the company with debt."

    "The new owners loaded debt on the company."

  16. Load as a verb (transitive):

    To provide in abundance.

    Examples:

    "He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon."

    "He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon."

  17. Load as a verb (transitive):

    To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead.

  18. Load as a verb (transitive, archaic, slang):

    To adulterate or drug.

    Examples:

    "to load wine"

  19. Load as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To magnetize.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Prior"

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