different between freight vs transportation

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)

1. 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.

2. Goods or items in transport.
3. Transport of goods.

   They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.

4. (rail transport, countable) A freight train.
5. (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, […]

Synonyms

• cargo
• luggage

Derived terms

Related terms

• fraught

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Verb

freight (third-person singular simple present freights, present participle freighting, simple past and past participle freighted)

1. (transitive) To transport (goods).
2. 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.

Derived terms

• freighted
• freighting

Related terms

• fraught

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See also

• Freight in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• fighter, refight

English

Etymology

From transport +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?ænsp???te???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?ænsp??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: trans?por?ta?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

transportation (usually uncountable, plural transportations)

1. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.

   We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation.

2. (historical) Deportation to a penal colony.

   Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation.

3. (US) A means of conveyance.

   Nice transportation, dude, but your brake lights are busted.

4. (US) A ticket or fare.
   • 1898, Willa Cather, The Westbound Train

     Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"

     (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)

     Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."

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