freightとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

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

名詞

freight (usually uncountable, 複数形 freights)

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.

   • 2019 October, “South Wales open access bid”, in Modern Railways, page 15:

     Space for carrying light freight also features in Grand Union's proposal. The company says it is working with partners at Intercity Railfreight on the logistics of this, with refrigerated space to be available for movement of urgent NHS biological materials. Initially freight would be carried in the DVTs of the Class 91/Mk 4 sets, while on the Class 802s the kitchen/buffet would be located towards the centre of the train to make space for freight.

3. Transport of goods.

   They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.

4. (figuratively) Cultural or emotional associations.
   • 2007, B. Richards, Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror (page 116)

     This may seem to be a quite unrealistic aim, until we note that some contributors to the emotional public sphere – advertising creatives – are very aware of the emotional freight that simple words may carry, […]

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

• freighted
• freighting

関連する語

• fraught

参考

• Freight in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

アナグラム

• fighter, refight