(n.) That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.
(n.) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
(n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
(n.) Freight transportation, or freight line.
(a.) Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.
(v. t.) To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.
Example Sentences:
(1) Supporters of the construction argued in a 2006 presentation that they could capture 4.5% of world maritime freight traffic and earn a 22% profit margin by 2025, although their cost estimates at that time were much lower than those of the current project.
(2) Former Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson told 60 Minutes last week about that, when it comes to approving or rejecting the military’s request for drone strikes, “to say no is like stepping in front of a 90-car freight train.” An important new report released by the Open Society Justice Initiative this week also shows that - despite the Obama administration’s internal requirements for drone strikes that supposedly require a “near certainty” that civilians won’t get killed - the government quite often just disregards its own rules, which has led to the death of dozens of civilians in Yemen in the past two years.
(3) British freight transport chiefs said the industry was losing £750,000 a day because of the huge problems lorry drivers have faced this summer trying to cross the Channel.
(4) 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.
(5) Port of Dover (@Port_of_Dover) We sincerely regret the impact to the travelling public, freight & the Dover Community of a Calais situation which is beyond our control.
(6) 'Half the people who boycott air-freighted beans think they are doing some good for the environment.
(7) Serious public opposition to practices such as fracking and tar sands extraction, as well as the building of major pipelines has lead to a hasty surge in the transport of oil by freight.
(8) 2) Many items on the checklist received a poor evaluations, indicating that there are many ergonomic problems with freight-container tractors.
(9) "So we have all the trophies you describe (Freight Rover Trophy, the Sherpa Van Trophy, the Leyland DAF Cup, the Autoglass Trophy and the Auto Windscreens Shield) apart from the LDV Vans (but we do have the Simod Cup)."
(10) Today Indians cannot live without the railways; the Indian authorities have reversed British policies and they are used principally to transport people, with freight bearing ever higher charges in order to subsidise the passengers (exactly the opposite of British practice).
(11) The timetable is severe: the initial “dedicated freight corridor” has been given a deadline for completion of 2017.
(12) These findings were considered to originate from the fact that the freight-container tractors had many ergonomic problems and the daily driving hours of many drivers were estimated to exceed the allowable vibration exposure time of the ISO.
(13) The new school opened nine years later with £2m from the sponsor – the late Sir Clive Bourne, a local self-made man who prospered from freight shipping – new premises designed by an award-winning architect, new pupils and teachers, nearly all young enough to be able and willing to work, albeit for enhanced pay, the punishing hours that Wilshaw demands.
(14) One member, Lord Berkeley, who chairs the Rail Freight Group, says: "I think it's a very big deal.
(15) Most parts of the state went without power for hours on Wednesday while scores of freight and passenger trains were cancelled.
(16) Watch the clip here One more movie, Unstoppable , again with Washington – this time trying to prevent a toxic freight train from crashing – was released in 2010.
(17) 5) The foregoing results indicate that ergonomic improvement of the freight-container tractors is a matter of urgency.
(18) The market drop is overdue.” In a fresh sign that the Chinese economy has weakened, business magazine Caixin reported on Tuesday that China’s national rail freight volumes declined by a tenth in 2015, their biggest ever annual decline.
(19) When Claudie Le Bail joined tens of thousands of Breton "red cap" demonstrators protesting in Carhaix at the end of November to oppose regional job losses and a green tax on road freight, she took her 79-year-old mother with her.
(20) The description of east Jerusalem as ‘occupied east Jerusalem’ is a term freighted with pejorative implications, which is neither appropriate nor useful,” Brandis told the Senate estimates hearing.
Locomotive
Definition:
(a.) Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
(a.) Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.
(n.) A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Platelet-activating factor (PAF-acether), an inflammatory mediator with a wide range of biological activities including neutrophil aggregation and chemotaxis, was studied for its effect on human eosinophil locomotion (chemotaxis and chemokinesis).
(2) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
(3) When the organisms are free-swimming this is seen as the reversed locomotion of Jennings' "avoiding reaction."
(4) In naïve mice, i.e., mice with intact stores of DA, both the selective D1 antagonist SCH23390 and the selective D2 antagonist spiperone blocked the locomoter stimulation produced by (+)-amphetamine.
(5) With respect to the mechanism of the delayed invasion, it was suggested that the IFN-gamma might inhibit the adhesion of the cells to extracellular matrices (ECM) and the subsequent locomotion.
(6) During normal locomotion, SA-m exhibited a single burst of EMG activity per step cycle, during the swing phase.
(7) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
(8) One hypothesis to account for intercellular invasion proposes that a necessary condition for a cell type to be invasive to a given host tissue is that it lack contact paralysis of locomotion during collision with cells of that host tissue.
(9) The failure of agents which inhibit motility to inhibit capping of the normal lymphocytes suggests that active locomotion is not a direct prerequisite for capping.
(10) The average speed of the cells, as well as the proportion of neutrophils showing locomotion, is increased.
(11) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
(12) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
(13) Locomotion and general activities were typically unchanged over days.
(14) While executing the latter movements no forward locomotion occurred at all; the cats solely executed lateral fore- and hindlimb movements opposite to the direction in which the cylinder rotated.
(15) In addition, this drug slightly reduced locomotion and more markedly rearing in a free exploration procedure.
(16) Animals injected with DZP, NPC 12626, CPP or buspirone spent at least 1.4 of the 4 post shock minutes locomoting.
(17) injection of bremazocine, an opiate kappa-receptor agonist, suppressed spontaneous locomotion but not CRF-induced locomotion.
(18) Without shocks, apomorphine-treated rats displayed stereotypy with locomotion and biting of various objects.
(19) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
(20) reversed the increase in locomotion and elevation of multiple squeak thresholds in the bilaterally kindled rats.