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FREIGHT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

Synonyms:

freight; freightage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("freight" is a kind of...):

shipping; transport; transportation (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)

Derivation:

freight (transport commercially as cargo)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Goods carried by a large vehicle

Synonyms:

cargo; consignment; freight; lading; load; loading; payload; shipment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("freight" is a kind of...):

merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)

Derivation:

freight (load with goods for transportation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The charge for transporting something by common carrier

Example:

the freight rate is usually cheaper

Synonyms:

freight; freight rate; freightage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("freight" is a kind of...):

charge per unit; rate (amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis)

Derivation:

freight (transport commercially as cargo)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Load with goods for transportation

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "freight" is one way to...):

charge (fill or load to capacity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

freight (goods carried by a large vehicle)

freightage (transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates)

freightage (the charge for transporting something by common carrier)

freighter (a cargo ship)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transport commercially as cargo

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "freight" is one way to...):

transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "freight"):

air-freight; air-ship; airfreight (transport (cargo) by air)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

freight (transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates)

freight (the charge for transporting something by common carrier)

freightage (transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates)

freightage (the charge for transporting something by common carrier)

freighter (a cargo ship)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The golden year was dying as it had lived, a beautiful and unrepentant voluptuary, and reminiscent rapture and content freighted heavily the air.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he plodded down the road himself, to the water tank, where half a dozen empties lay on a side-track waiting for the up freight.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The paradox of it was that it was the story itself that was freighted with his power, that was the channel, for the time being, through which his strength poured out to her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He did not know that he was himself possessed of unusual brain vigor; nor did he know that the persons who were given to probing the depths and to thinking ultimate thoughts were not to be found in the drawing rooms of the world's Morses; nor did he dream that such persons were as lonely eagles sailing solitary in the azure sky far above the earth and its swarming freight of gregarious life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)