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recharge
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recharge \Re*charge"\ (r[=e]*ch[aum]rj"), v. t. & i. [Pref. re- + charge: cf. F. recharger.] To charge or accuse in return. To attack again; to attack anew. --Dryden.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Recharge or Recharged may refer to: Groundwater recharge , a hydrologic process where water moves to groundwater Recharge (battery) , the process to restore power or charge to a power storage device, such as a battery Recharge (magazine) , is a business ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "to reload" (a vessel), from re- "again, back" + charge "to load" (q.v.); modeled on Old French rechargier "to load, load back on" (13c.). Meaning "re-power a battery" is from 1876. Related: Recharged ; recharging . The noun is recorded from ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully" [syn: reload ] charge anew; "recharge a battery"
Usage examples of recharge.
Using every bit of stored energy in his system, leaving any worry about recharging for a later date, Mahnmut coiled and jumped again, passed right through the holographic horses, and kicked the surprised goddess right in the chest.
Subjects: two rival neutralists returning from the Belgrade Conference, recharging their batteries in Venice on Monday.
A motor drove a wheeled platform, steered by a photoelectric unit that approached light sources by which the batteries might be recharged and, when this was done, became negatively phototropic and sought darkness.
Frenchman, Sir AH had drawn the wetted loads from his pistols, recharged and reprimed them, dried off his sword, borrowed a helmet and a spikebacked boarding ax, and wangled a place in the very first wave of boarders to clamber up onto the bow of the enemy vessel.
Frenchman, Sir Ali had drawn the wetted loads from his pistols, recharged and reprimed them, dried off his sword, borrowed a helmet and a spike-backed boarding ax, and wangled a place in the very first wave of boarders to clamber up onto the bow of the enemy vessel.
We stood about, hopping from one foot to the other, waiting for the door to recharge.
For final preparations, I held the stunner in one hand and slung the recharged scuba device around my neck.
We found out later that their oxygen apparatus inside their vitrine bells would not allow of a longer absence from the recharging station than a few hours, and so their chances of learning anything of what was on the sea-bed were limited to so many miles from their central base.
He got up and used the chamber pot, trying to remember what Xaefyer had said about the recharge time decreasing for the next few months.
Once used, these gates must be recharged with energy before the next use.
Recharging requires time, much time for some gates, very little for others.
She must be persuaded to show me how the portable gates are recharged before tomorrow morning.
This gate is actually a series of gates, three of standard size that you must pass here in the vicinity of Aefor, but whose recharge is quite fast, and a fourth large enough to pass 30 people at once.
Earth is so far from here that the two Earth gates, even though opening to different places at both ends, have the same recharge time.
For gates that are closer, such as those between Ty Station and the planet Flan, the recharge time is only a minute or two.