(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.
Tipple
Definition:
(v. i.) To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.
(v. t.) To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.
(v. t.) To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.
(n.) Liquor taken in tippling; drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone knows that Father Christmas’s tipple of choice is brandy, so Santa, if you’re reading this, we recommend you pause in The Flask on Highgate West Hill for a quick snifter.
(2) They’re cracking open the baijiu ,” said John Delury, a China expert from Yonsei University in Seoul, referring to China’s throat-scorching national tipple.
(3) Since Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from middle ear effusions of neonates with natally acquired chlamydial infection (Tipple et al., 1979), there have been several studies to detect chlamydia in older children with chronic secretory otitis media, mainly by tissue culture.
(4) The taoiseach promised that he would open it up and enjoy a tipple on the day Ireland exited the IMF-EU bailout .
(5) The British gin industry had a record-breaking year in 2015 after 49 new distilleries opened their doors and and consumers spent nearly £1bn on their favourite tipple.
(6) A study earlier this year on the wine ingredient resveratrol now suggests the tipple may not hold the secret of why countries such as France have such a low incidence of heart disease.
(7) Mocotó is also a cachaçaria , selling more than 500 cachaças – a tipple often associated with poor people and drunks – from all over the country.
(8) Good news, obviously, but isn't Baileys a bit of a, well, girls' tipple?
(9) Describing the whisky duty freeze as Osborne's "referendum tipple," Swinney said: "The £63m added to the Scottish budget today is small beer compared to the significant cuts Scotland has faced since 2010.
(10) The trend has been attributed to factors including pub prices comparing unfavourably with the cost of alcohol in supermarkets and changing cultural habits, with more people entertaining and sharing a tipple at home.
(11) Photograph: PR The forward galley’s catering facilities have wine glasses for an in-flight tipple while the bathroom includes a shower and a vacuum lavatory.
(12) On the day his death was announced, Hardee's friends and family converged on the Wibbly Wobbly to pour a measure of his favourite tipple, rum and Coke, into the river where he felt so at home.
(13) Order a flight of pisco (from £3.45) or a round of pisco sours (from £3.25 each) and decide for yourself which country’s tipple tickles your fancy.
(14) My tipple was mostly white wine, and I probably drank, on average, a bottle a night – more at the weekends.
(15) Basque wine or cider are the classic tipples, but Atari also mixes killer gin and tonics.
(16) But after word spread about her sake venture, Sasaki quickly found herself running out of stock as old neighbours and new customers indulged their love of her cloudy, slightly fizzy tipple.
(17) Californian online retailer Wines that Rock, responsible for the Rolling Stones' Forty Licks Merlot and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon Cabernet Sauvignon, has collaborated with a Bordeaux vineyard to develop a tipple giving a nod to the clarets favoured by the English aristocracy in the Edwardian era.
(18) "No regrets," she asserts haughtily, knocking back a glass of rakija , the local tipple.
(19) But you might want to try another tipple after hearing the case of a 47-year-old woman, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), who developed brittle bones and lost all of her teeth after drinking too much tea .
(20) It was the working man’s tipple and in the early 20th century there were more than 1,000 pulquerías in Mexico City.