freight

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.

   “[A]fter ſome Conſideration, that the City of Hamburgh might happen to be as good a Market for our Goods as London, we all took Freight with him, and having put my Goods on board, it was moſt natural for me to put my Steward on board to take care of them, […]”

2. isim Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.

   “The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.”

3. isim Payment for transportation.

   “The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.”

4. isim A burden, a load.

   “Thus Apple Trees, whoſe Trunks are ſtrong to bear Their ſpreading Boughs, exert themſelves in Air: Want no supply, but ſtand ſecure alone, Not truſting foreign Forces, but their own: 'Till with the ruddy freight the bending Branches groan.”

5. isim Cultural or emotional associations.
6. isim Ellipsis of freight train.

   “They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.”

7. fiil To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.

   “It is true, there be few Merchants, that with the Merchandiſe they buy at home, can fraight a Ship, to export it; or with that they buy abroad, to bring it home; and have therefore need to joyn together in one Society; […]”

8. fiil To transport (goods).
9. fiil To load or store (goods, etc.).

   “[W]hat though it is thou [i.e., sensibility] that rendereſt anguiſh more frequent, that filleſt the eye with the ſympathetic tear! yet is it not thou that ſwelleſt it with the tear of joy, and freighteſt the heart beyond the power of utterance,— […]”

10. fiil To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
11. fiil Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.

    “How often, when those hopes are greatest, The bark that bears them must not be Trusted with more than what thou freightest For sun-lit hour and summer sea: Who, when the waves are high and dark, Could steer, if freighted deep, such bark?”

12. sıfat Freighted; laden.

    “[H]is ſouldiers, ſeeing great prizes brought out of the enemies Land, and every ſhip freight therewith; were mightily incenſed and ſet on fire with a burning deſire to be tranſported over thither with all ſpeed poſſible.”