CHARGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does charged mean? 

• CHARGED (adjective)
  The adjective CHARGED has 4 senses:

1. of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge

2. fraught with great emotion

3. supplied with carbon dioxide

4. capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy

  Familiarity information: CHARGED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge

Context example:

a charged battery

Similar:

hot; live (charged or energized with electricity)

electronegative; negative; negatively charged (having a negative charge)

electropositive; positive; positively charged (having a positive charge)

polar (having a pair of equal and opposite charges)

Antonym:

uncharged (of a particle or body or system; having no charge)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fraught with great emotion

Synonyms:

charged; supercharged

Context example:

an emotionally charged speech

Similar:

emotional (of more than usual emotion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Supplied with carbon dioxide

Synonyms:

aerated; charged

Similar:

effervescent ((of a liquid) giving off bubbles)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy

Context example:

the highly charged issue of abortion

Similar:

provocative (serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy)

 Context examples 

A type of globulin in plasma that in electrically charged solutions exhibits greatest colloidal mobility among that of serum globulins.

(Alpha-Globulin, NCI Thesaurus)

A flavonoid with a positively charged oxygen in the pyran moiety that has 5 double bonds in the benzopyran group.

(Anthocyanidin, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Some particles are neutral, and neutral particles aren’t subject to magnetic fields like charged particles are.

(Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules, NASA)

Lined by highly conserved residues, the positively charged groove of the superhelix appears to mediate interaction with acidic surfaces of target proteins.

(Armadillo Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of globulin in plasma that in electrically charged solutions exhibits colloidal mobility between that of the alpha and gamma globulins.

(Beta Globulin, NCI Thesaurus)

Since gram positive bacteria are more negatively charged, they are more sensitive to this agent.

(Chlorhexidine, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of agents that block the influx or efflux of positively charged ions through cell membrane.

(Cation Channel Blocker, NCI Thesaurus)

As positively charged amines, spermine and spermidine interact with DNA and may exert some of their effects through this interaction.

(Biosynthesis of Spermidine and Spermine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Cosmic rays are energetic charged particles that come from nearby stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)

She resolved to give her the information herself, and therefore charged Mr. Collins, when he returned to Longbourn to dinner, to drop no hint of what had passed before any of the family.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)