different between cargo vs steeve

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

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti?v/
• Rhymes: -i?v
• Homophone: Steve

Noun

steeve (plural steeves)

1. (nautical) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel.
2. A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly.

Verb

steeve (third-person singular simple present steeves, present participle steeving, simple past and past participle steeved)

1. (archaic) To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc.
2. (transitive) To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve.

Translations

Anagrams

• vestee