different between carriage vs freight
carriage
English
Etymology
From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kæ??d?/, /?k???d?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæ??d?/
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
- (Mary–marry–merry merger)
- Rhymes: -æ??d?
- Hyphenation: car?riage
Noun
carriage (countable and uncountable, plural carriages)
- The act of conveying; carrying.
- Means of conveyance.
- A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
- The carriage ride was very romantic.
- (Britain) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
- (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Characters," [1]
- In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 90:
- He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
- He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
- Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
- The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
- (US, New England) A shopping cart.
- (Britain) A stroller; a baby carriage.
- The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).
- Synonyms: freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate
- (archaic) That which is carried, baggage
- And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- carriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Appendix:Carriages
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freight
English
Etymology
From Middle English freyght, from Middle Dutch vracht, Middle Low German vrecht (“cost of transport”), from Proto-West Germanic *fra- + *aihti, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fra- (intensive prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possession”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey?- (“to possess”), equivalent to for- +? aught. Cognate with Old High German fr?ht (“earnings”), Old English ?ht (“owndom”), and a doublet of fraught. More at for-, own.
Pronunciation
- enPR: fr?t, IPA(key): /f?e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
freight (usually uncountable, plural freights)
- Payment for transportation.
- The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.
- 1881, Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Vol. 6, p. 412:
- Had the ship earned her freight? To earn freight there must, of course, be either a right delivery, or a due and proper offer to deliver the goods to the consignees.
- Goods or items in transport.
- Transport of goods.
- They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.
- (rail transport, countable) A freight train.
- (figuratively) Cultural or emotional associations.
- 2007, B. Richards, Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror (page 116)
- This may seem to be a quite unrealistic aim, until we note that some contributors to the emotional public sphere – advertising creatives – are very aware of the emotional freight that simple words may carry, […]
- 2007, B. Richards, Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror (page 116)
Synonyms
- cargo
- luggage
Derived terms
Related terms
- fraught
Translations
Verb
freight (third-person singular simple present freights, present participle freighting, simple past and past participle freighted)
- (transitive) To transport (goods).
- To load with freight. Also figurative.
- 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, 1965,[1]
- Everything I did seemed awkward to me, and everything I said sounded freighted with hidden meaning.
- 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, 1965,[1]
Derived terms
- freighted
- freighting
Related terms
- fraught
Translations
See also
- Freight in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- fighter, refight
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