different between cargo vs nacelle

English

Etymology

From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carric?re.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)???
• Hyphenation: car?go

Noun

cargo (countable and uncountable, plural cargos or cargoes)

1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
2. (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.
   • 1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, Duke University Press, page xi

     "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "cargo" cult)."

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Cogar, Crago

French

Etymology

From English cargo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?.?o/

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. ship designed to carry a cargo

Further reading

• “cargo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kar.?o/
• Hyphenation: car?go

Noun

cargo m (plural carghi)

1. cargo boat
2. freighter (boat or plane)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?ka?.?u/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ka?.?u/
• Hyphenation: car?go

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. post, occupation, profession
2. office; responsibility

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cargo m (genitive singular cargo, plural cargothan)

1. Alternative form of carago.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka??o/, [?ka?.??o]
• Hyphenation: car?go

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. charge, burden
2. position, post
3. (finance) debit
4. (heraldry) charge

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos, feminine carga, feminine plural cargas)

1. higher-up

Derived terms

• cargador
• a cargo
• hacerse cargo de

Related terms

• cargar
• cargante
• carga

Verb

cargo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of cargar.

Venetian

Adjective

cargo m (feminine singular carga, masculine plural cargi, feminine plural carge)

1. loaded, laden
2. charged
3. full

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French nacelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??s?l/

Noun

nacelle (plural nacelles)

1. A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine, cargo, or crew.
2. The part between the tower and rotor of a wind turbine.
3. The compartment that holds passengers on a hot-air balloon, a dirigible, or an aerostat; a gondola.
4. The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH hulled boat.
5. (obsolete) A small boat.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French nacele (“small boat”), from Late Latin navicella, diminutive of Latin navis (“boat”). Doublet of navicelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.s?l/

Noun

nacelle f (plural nacelles)

1. (literary) skiff
2. gondola (of hot-air balloon etc.)
3. pod (of spacecraft)
4. cradle

Related terms

• naval
• navire
• nef

Further reading

• “nacelle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).