freightとは

発音

• enPR: frāt, IPA^(key): /fɹeɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt

名詞

freight (uncountable)

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.

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

3. Transport of goods.

   They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.

4. (figuratively) Cultural or emotional associations.

   A wedding ring is small, but it has massive emotional freight.

同意語

• cargo
• luggage

派生語

関連する語

• fraught

動詞

freight (三人称単数 現在形 freights, 現在分詞 freighting, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

   • 2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R19:

     English National Opera is a title freighted with implications, and that first adjective promises not only a geographical reach, but a linguistic commitment too.

派生語

• fraught

参考

• Freight in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

アナグラム

• fighter, refight