英语词汇“freight”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	freight
释义	freight I. \ˈfrāt, usu -ād.+V\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht — more at fraught 1. : the compensation paid for the transportation of goods or for the use of all or part of a ship, train, plane, or other means of such transportation — called also freightage 2. a. : something that is loaded for transportation : cargo < an airplane carrying a very heavy freight > — see airfreight b. : load, burden < a man staggering under a freight of small logs in a basket > < burdened by a freight of woes > < the silvery blue larkspur bending under a freight of bees — D.C.Peattie > 3. a. : freight transportation; specifically : the ordinary transportation of goods afforded by a common carrier and distinguished from express usually by lower rates, deferred dispatch, extra charge for pickup and delivery, or larger volume minimum < freight is less expensive than express > < a freight charge > < freight service > b. : a train designed or used for such transportation < a 100-car freight pounding the rails beside us — Richard Bissell > II. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English freighten, from freight, n. 1. a. : to load (as a ship or plane) with goods for transportation : furnish with freight < a ship being freighted at the dockside > b. : to weigh down : load, burden < a time … so freighted with conflicting and violent emotion — Marya Mannes > < freighted with the … fears of millions of mankind — A.E.Stevenson †1965 > : charge < persistent delinquency … heavily freighted with neurotic complications — Edwin Powers & Helen Witmer > < every word he spoke was freighted with meaning for the American way of self-government — C.A.Beard > < freighted with dark torment and intimate self-revelation — A.M.Schlesinger b.1917 > especially : to charge or burden (as a piece of writing) with significance or meanings especially too heavily < his gaiety was serious … his comedy was freighted — Francis Hackett > < there is a minimum of freighted sermonizing, which usually bores the reader and consequently wastes the message — Siegfried Mandel > < those oddly associated adjectives were freighted for him beyond their usual connotations — F.O.Matthiessen > < his means of expression are so elaborate and so heavily freighted — Winthrop Sargeant > c. : to make rich (as in hope or joy) < their counsel is freighted with the rich experience of many years of successful work — J.A.O'Brien > < he is freighted with honors which he wears invisibly — Lucien Price > 2. : to hire or let for transportation of goods or passengers 3. : to transport, carry, or ship by freight < boats freighted hogsheads of tar to the canal communities — S.H.Adams > < beef, pork, mutton, butter, cheese, and grain were freighted out in winter on sleds — American Guide Series: Vermont > III. adjective Etymology: Middle English, past participle of freighten to freight obsolete : laden, fraught IV. noun 1. : cost < wasn't a single sponsor to help pay the freight — TV Guide > 2. : meaning : significance
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