What's the difference between barge and cargo?

Barge


Definition:

  • (n.) A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.
  • (n.) A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.
  • (n.) A large boat used by flag officers.
  • (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
  • (n.) A large omnibus used for excursions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
  • (2) The farmers may also struggle to find other bulk items, such as fertiliser, that are typically shipped by barge.
  • (3) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
  • (4) PSG's title will not, however, be confirmed until a league disciplinary panel meets to decide whether to impose a points deduction following allegations that their sporting director, Leonardo, barged a referee.
  • (5) The catamaran-style “waste harvester” uses a system of interchangeable barges and on-board storage to continuously harvest surface waste without having to frequently return to shore to unload.
  • (6) A retired police officer told the West Yorkshire inquiry that there were rumours in the early 1960s that Savile "took young girls to his barge in Leeds for parties".
  • (7) Barges are carrying lighter loads, making for more traffic, with more delays and back-ups.
  • (8) The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.
  • (9) A discarded oil drum bobbing in the Napo highlights the pollution from the oil barges and river traffic.
  • (10) When, finally, the LPO barge joined the procession of boats, Blunt says he found it "impossible not to get swept up in national fever.
  • (11) Wayne Rooney was still protesting after the final whistle, the England captain furious Mark Clattenburg had penalised Rafael da Silva for a foul on Vardy, when the Leicester forward had barged into the United full-back seconds earlier.
  • (12) They shrugged off the harsh decision not to award them a 43rd-minute penalty for a barge by Giorgio Chiellini on Joel Campbell to strike the decisive blow through the captain Bryan Ruiz.
  • (13) Reefs are ideal locations for land reclamation because they rise far above the surrounding seabed, making them accessible to dredger barges.
  • (14) After Michal Pazdan tried to nick Nani’s pass from him and failed, the chance opened up but Ronaldo shot straight at Fabianski while, on the half-hour, he should have had a penalty when Pazdan barged into him as he attacked a cross.
  • (15) The Italian company IREM won the contract and supplied its own permanent workforce, accommodating them in large, grey housing barges moored off Grimsby docks.
  • (16) When elected to Westminster, however, her primary sporting activity was cycling to work along the river Thames from the barge on which she lived with her husband, Brendan Cox, and their two children, Lejla and Cuillin.
  • (17) The company has tried repeatedly to complete a landing of a 68m-tall rocket on the barge, most recently in March .
  • (18) By the time it arrived at the O2 Arena in Greenwich at 6pm, it had been buffeted and barged by clashes between pro-Tibetan demonstrators and Chinese students, and its passage interrupted by several direct incursions from protesters.
  • (19) Juventus and Liverpool have been brutally barged from contests by the Ivorian in recent weeks, with London rivals now dispatched the same way.
  • (20) In one of those self-destructive moments which have become this team’s hallmark, Fabricio Coloccini barged Steven Fletcher with a shoulder as the striker attempted to connect with Jermain Defoe’s pass.

Cargo


Definition:

  • (n.) The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measures include tightened financial restrictions and cargo inspections.
  • (2) Four pilots with "extensive experience" in transporting some of the world's most precious cargo, including white rhinos and penguins, were on the flight.
  • (3) He’s bought the cattle, booked the container and even reserved a space on a cargo ship.
  • (4) A dramatic shift in asylum policy in 2001 helped Howard turn around poor polling and win the November federal election, after he refused permission for the MV Tampa to enter Australian waters with its cargo of rescued asylum seekers.
  • (5) Its loss would be a major blow to Ukraine and would also allow the rebels to receive large cargo planes with supplies in addition to truck convoys from Russia .
  • (6) The organisation had never however gained access to the "Cargo Building", the most notorious detention centre, in Srinagar.
  • (7) Field studies of human flora carried out in remote environments are often compromised by problems associated with media, equipment or cargo limitations.
  • (8) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Workers unload a cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid from Saudi Arabia at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq.
  • (10) The Los Angeles police department, California highway patrol, firefighters and the coastguard conducted a search, while cargo vessels slowed during their passage through the main channel so as to minimise disturbance.
  • (11) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
  • (12) When a boat’s hull was packed with human cargo, it would depart southward to Thailand or Malaysia.
  • (13) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
  • (14) Authorities were also questioning cargo workers at the airport and employees of the local shipping firms contracted to work with commercial logistics companies.
  • (15) Two US marine C-130 cargo planes arrived in Tacloban, the coastal city where virtually every building was destroyed by the typhoon's huge storm surge, and were unloading emergency items on Monday evening – the first wave of an aid operation taking in dozens of countries and agencies.
  • (16) It is sending 329 tonnes of medical and relief cargo.
  • (17) Go further back, and the UK's proud claim to be "a trading nation" was established with consignments of the bloodstained crops of cotton and sugar, to say nothing of the human cargo that went with them.
  • (18) Qatar has negotiated new cargo handling arrangements in the Omani ports of Sohar and Salalah, avoiding the need for goods to stop in the UAE.
  • (19) This path was built to link the tiny fishing settlements along the edge of the loch and allow the precious cargo of "silver darlings" to be carried ashore.
  • (20) We are working out different options for a water landing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Progress cargo vessel docked at the International Space Station in January 2014.