FREIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freight mean? 

• FREIGHT (noun)
  The noun FREIGHT has 3 senses:

1. goods carried by a large vehicle

2. transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

3. the charge for transporting something by common carrier

  Familiarity information: FREIGHT used as a noun is uncommon.

• FREIGHT (verb)
  The verb FREIGHT has 2 senses:

1. transport commercially as cargo

2. load with goods for transportation

  Familiarity information: FREIGHT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Goods carried by a large vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

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

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

merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)

Derivation:

freight (load with goods for transportation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

freight; freightage

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

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

Derivation:

freight (transport commercially as cargo)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The charge for transporting something by common carrier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

freight; freight rate; freightage

Context example:

the freight rate is usually cheaper

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)

• FREIGHT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they freight    ... he / she / it freights   
Past simple: freighted   
Past participle: freighted   
-ing form: freighting   

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

On several occasions the sled was overturned, and they were compelled to reload it with its sombre freight.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Here, lend me a hand before you pull your freight,” he added.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Me for the freight cars an' the shade under the trees.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Several men picked up the hatch-cover with its ghastly freight, carried it to the lee side, and rested it on the boats, the feet pointing overboard.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I offered to leave my goods in security for payment of my freight: but the captain protested he would not receive one farthing.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

As I write there is in the passage below a sound of many tramping feet and the crash of weights being set down heavily, doubtless the boxes, with their freight of earth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Ahead of him the river split into many channels to accommodate the freight of islands it carried on its breast.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She was behind time, an' around the Puget Sound ports we worked like niggers, storing cargo-mixed freight, if you know what that means.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They hauled cabin logs and firewood, freighted up to the mines, and did all manner of work that horses did in the Santa Clara Valley.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I tried my canoe in a large pond, near my master’s house, and then corrected in it what was amiss; stopping all the chinks with Yahoos’ tallow, till I found it staunch, and able to bear me and my freight; and, when it was as complete as I could possibly make it, I had it drawn on a carriage very gently by Yahoos to the sea-side, under the conduct of the sorrel nag and another servant.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)