Difference between Charge and Point

What is the difference between Charge and Point?

Charge as a verb is to place a burden upon. while Point as a verb is to extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.

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 future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.

Point

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.To repair mortar.To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular directionTo repair by removing and replacing loose mortar.To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A discrete divison of something.# An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.#: The Congress debated the finer points of the bill.# A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.#: There comes a point in a marathon when some people give up.#: At this point in the meeting, I'd like to propose a new item for the agenda.# Condition, state.#:She was not feeling in good point.# A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition, a focus of conversation or consideration.#:I made the point that we all had an interest to protect.# The smallest quantity of something; a jot, a whit.#*1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:#*:full large of limbe and euery ioint / He was, and cared not for God or man a point.# A tiny amount of time; a moment.# A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.#: We should meet at a pre-arranged point.# A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.# A purpose or objective.#: Since the decision has already been made, I see little point in further discussion.# A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.# A distinguishing quality or characteristic.#:Logic isn't my strong point.# Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.#:The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.# A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.#:Possession is nine points of the law.# Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.# A unit of scoring in a game or competition.#: The one with the most points will win the game# A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).#: 10.5 ("ten point five"; = ten and a half)# A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.# a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).# An electric power socket.A sharp extremity.# The sharp tip of an object.#: Cut the skin with the point of the knife.# Any projecting extremity of an object.# An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.#:His cowboy belt was studded with points.# Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.# A peninsula or promontory.# The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.#* 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0-7432-3011-6, [http://books.google.com/books?id=j16Lsej_q-YC&pg=PA189&dq=point page 189]:#*: Willie Jones decided to become Kimani Jones, Black Panther, on the day his best friend, Otis Nicholson, stepped on a mine while walking point during a sweep in the central highlands.# Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.# A railroad switch.# An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.#: The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.# A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.

Example sentence: Keep going and keep believing and do what makes you feel good. And when you feel good and get to the point where no-one can take that from you, then that feeling will the best feeling.

We hope you now know whether to use Charge or Point in your sentence.

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