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CHARGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge
Example:
a charged battery
Classified under:
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
Example:
an emotionally charged speech
Synonyms:
charged; supercharged
Classified under:
Similar:
emotional (of more than usual emotion)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy
Example:
the highly charged issue of abortion
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Adjectives
Similar:
provocative (serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Supplied with carbon dioxide
Synonyms:
aerated; charged
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
effervescent ((of a liquid) giving off bubbles)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb charge
Context examples:
Now, a team of scientists has conducted research into waves that travel through this magnetic, electrically charged environment, known as the magnetosphere, deepening understanding of the region.
(Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields that surround Earth, National Science Foundation)
The charged characteristics of clay-based nanoparticles provide hemostatic ability to the hydrogels.
(Injectable Bandage Created, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
“All of the particles charged well, and about two to five percent didn’t come out of the tumbler,” said Mendez Harper.
('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)
When activated, they allow electrically charged ions to flow in and out of cells like water through an unlocked canal.
(Eye cells may use math to detect motion, NIH)
"Charge exchange": Basically, it happens when the electrically-charged solar wind comes into contact with a neutral gas.
(Evidence for supernovas near Earth, NASA)
However, the composition of the wind – made of two types of electrically charged particles, namely ions and electrons – affects the flow.
(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)
Snow is positively charged, while silicon is negatively charged.
(Nanogenerator Creates Electricity from Snowfall, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Instead, they measure flashes of blue light, known as Cherenkov radiation, produced by muons and other fast-moving charged particles created when neutrinos interact with the ice.
(Antarctic detector offers first look at how Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks, National Science Foundation)
Chlorhexidine gluconate is positively charged and reacts with the negatively charged microbial cell surface, thereby destroying the integrity of the cell membrane.
(Chlorhexidine Gluconate, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes charged multivesicular body protein 2a, plays a role in the regulation of protein sorting and assembly in the formation of multivesicular bodies.
(CHMP2A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
