(n.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The response of these three groups of animals to a diet diluted with 20% alpha cell, a nonnutritive bulker, showed an initial failure to meter calories by both VMN and DMN rats which, however, was compensated for during the remainder of the 24-hr test period.
(2) Levander said the technology would be used on cargo cable ferries (which are guided across rivers on cables) within the next couple of years, "but the real benefit will be in ocean going tankers and bulkers", where remote control would cut operating costs by up to 30%.
(3) However, it is still an effective stool bulker and acts mainly by increasing faecal water by some unknown mechanism.
Freighter
Definition:
(n.) One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
(n.) One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
(n.) One for whom freight is transported.
(n.) A vessel used mainly to carry freight.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1968, it organised the disappearance of an entire freighter full of uranium ore in the middle of the Mediterranean.
(2) Europe flew five ATV freighters to the station, all successfully, but has no plans to fly any more.
(3) Russian and European ore carriers, tankers and freighters are already taking advantage and preparing to follow the northern sea passage across the north of Russia to China – so saving thousands of miles and tonnes of fuel.
(4) The freighter was launched on 28 April from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, but never made it to the station, a $100bn research laboratory that flies about 418km above the Earth.
(5) The ‘Pacific Solution’ Offshore processing restarted in earnest in 2001 after the Tampa affair, when a Norwegian freighter rescued 433 asylum seekers from their sinking vessel, 140km from Christmas Island .
(6) The present study compared plasma ACTH, cortisol, lactate and non-esterified fatty acid concentrations in 12 greyhounds transported either in the existing wooden kennels or in wider perspex kennels, which were stowed either in the belly hold or in the main cargo hold of jet freighter aircraft.
(7) He has referred specifically to Howard's response to the anti-immigrant campaigner Pauline Hanson in 2001, when he used the presence of a Norwegian freighter carrying 438 rescued refugees full of refugees to co-opt Hanson's supporters.
(8) The British freighter was shipwrecked in 1815, and the individual decks still lie poignantly scattered across the sand.
(9) Early in their 22-year marriage, she and her husband circumnavigated the globe on a freighter, producing a documentary film of the voyage.
(10) The spent fuel was sent to France for reprocessing, they claimed, even providing film footage of it being supposedly being loaded onto French freighters.
(11) He arrived in Belfast in 1940 on a freighter, the Highland Chieftain, carrying a cargo of meat from Buenos Aires and other provisions for a nation at war.
(12) General cargo ships and Atlantic liners no longer exist; bulk carriers and tankers are the monopoly of China, Japan and Korea; cruise ships have become the specialism of Finland, Italy and Germany; black-funneled freighters no longer sail into Glasgow and Tilbury with imperial tea.
(13) The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW) announced that the final 8% of Syria's acknowledged arsenal of chemical weapons and precursors had been loaded on to a Danish freighter.
(14) What hits you straight away is his vision, his perseverance and his determination.” No volunteers had done anything similar since 1979, when a group of Germans chartered a freighter named Cap Anamur to rescue migrants fleeing Vietnam.
(15) The Tampa operation was designed by the Howard government with exquisite care to prevent reporters and lawyers learning what was happening on the Norwegian freighter in that great maritime standoff more than a decade ago.
(16) It is, presumably, easier for a gentleman of advanced years to pilot a technologically advanced space freighter through an asteroid field than it might be for him to outpace giant rolling boulders and leap desperately out of the way of booby-trapped spears.
(17) The yellowcake was concealed in drums labelled "plumbat", a lead derivative, and loaded onto a freighter leased by a phony Liberian company.
(18) As the 400-capacity landing ship HMAS Manoora hove into view by Christmas Island yesterday, the government announced that it was ready to attempt a tricky ship-to-ship transfer of the refugees from the Norwegian freighter Tampa, which saved them from drowning eight days ago.
(19) It will travel in two containers, by freighter and lorry.
(20) The film has a £120m budget and it has been reported that the interior of Han Solo's space freighter, the Millennium Falcon, has been rebuilt at London's Pinewood studios ready for filming in May, while Anthony Daniels has hinted he will again provide the voice of robot C-3P0 .