MEMORANDUM OPINION

BILL VANCE, Justice.

Asserting one issue, Appellant Nathan Reed appeals his conviction of attempted indecency with a child by contact (enhanced by two prior felony convictions) and thirty-three year sentence. We will affirm. Reed was indicted for attempting to force the hand of the 14-year-old victim into his pants. The elements of criminal attempt are: (1) a person (2) with specific intent to commit an offense (3) does an act amounting to more than mere preparation (4) that tends but fails to effect the commission of the offense intended. TEX. PEN. CODE ANN. § 15.01(a) (Vernon 2003). Reed alleges that the trial court erred by omitting the element of specific intent from the application paragraph. The abstract portion contained that element, stating: A person commits an offense if, with specific intent to commit an offense, he does an act amounting to more than mere preparation that tends but fails to effect the commission of the offense intended. A person acts intentionally, or with intent, with respect to the nature of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct. The application paragraph provided:

Now, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about July 31, 2003, in Freestone County, Texas, the defendant, NATHAN LLOYD REED, did then and there attempt to engage in sexual contact with [victim] by taking the hand of the said [victim], a child younger than 17 years and not the spouse of the defendant, and attempt to force her hand into the defendant's pants, which act amounted to more than mere preparation that tended but failed to effect the commission of said Indecency with a child by contact, and that said act, if any, was committed with the intent on the part of the defendant to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of himself, then you will find the defendant guilty as charged.

The function of a jury charge in a criminal trial is to instruct the jury on the law applicable to the case. Dinkins v. State, 894 S.W.2d 330, 339 (Tex.Crim.App. 1995). The charge consists of the abstract portion and the application paragraph or paragraphs. Id.; Plata v. State, 926 S.W.2d 300, 302 (Tex.Crim.App. 1996). The abstract portion "serve[s] as a kind of glossary to help the jury understand the meaning of concepts and terms used in the application paragraphs of the charge." Plata, 926 S.W.2d at 302. The application paragraph applies the law to the facts, and asks an ultimate question of the jury about whether the defendant is guilty. Plata, 926 S.W.2d at 302-03; Doyle v. State, 631 S.W.2d 732, 736-37 (Tex.Crim.App. 1982). Thus the relationship between the two is that definitions (and instructions) in the abstract portion are like words in a dictionary; their true and correct meaning is not shown until they are properly used in a sentence, i.e., in the application paragraph. Doyle, 631 S.W.2d at 737.