What's the difference between carload and shipload?
Carload
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) One witness said four carloads of young African-Caribbean men had cruised down Dudley Road and suggested there had been no doubt what they were planning to loot.
(2) On 16 November, four carloads of them arrived at his parents' house while they were celebrating Eid and chased him up the stairs.
(3) After their release, late at night, they were ambushed on a remote road by two carloads of Klan members.
(4) A New York Times article the next year estimated that it attracted 30,000 daily carloads of shoppers who “stroll about and window-shop just as they do on Fifth Avenue in New York”.
(5) I know personally of at least two or three carloads going down from south Wales, but there could be more."
(6) A recent show by local grime collective Levelz, for example, saw them ask fans to bring tins of food to a show rather than paying a ticket price : they ended up with six carloads to take to their local food bank.
(7) But a simple fact about the street, and those around it, sheds light on the police mindset: one by one, carload by carload, year by year, decade by decade, in an inexorable, remorseless exodus, white faces, faces like theirs, have vanished.
Shipload
Definition:
(n.) The load, or cargo, of a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) But through the takeover of land, exploitation of minerals and privatisation of resources, west Africa’s wealth is leaving in shiploads, just as it always has done.
(2) Production began in several countries last year, and in November, five years after the roundtable was set up, the first shipload of certified palm oil arrived in Rotterdam from south-east Asia.
(3) It got its name when a shipload of coconuts washed ashore and the early settlers planted them to see what would grow.
(4) It is even more urgent now.” Last year a shipload of 115 new refugees washed up on the shore of the Akrotiri base, prompting claims that a new Mediterranean migration route was about to be opened up.
(5) Then, early in the election campaign, there was a confused and fraught confrontation between an Australian naval vessel and a shipload of Afghans.