Freight vs. Passenger — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Freight and Passenger
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Freight
Goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft
A decline in the amount of freight carried by rail
Passenger
A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle but bears little or no responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle. The vehicles may be bicycles, buses, passenger trains, airliners, ships, ferryboats, and other methods of transportation.
Freight
A freight train
I can hear the regular wail of the twelve o'clock freight from my house
Passenger
A person who travels in a conveyance, such as a car or train, without participating in its operation.
Freight
A load or burden
These warm winds deposit their freight of moisture in showers of rain
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Passenger
(Informal) A person who participates only passively in an activity.
Freight
Transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft
The metals had been freighted from the city
Passenger
(Archaic) A wayfarer or traveler.
Freight
Be laden or burdened with
Each word was freighted with anger
Passenger
One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
Freight
Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo.
Passenger
Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.
Freight
A burden; a load.
Passenger
(falconry) A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.
Freight
Commercial transportation of goods.
Passenger
(obsolete) A migratory bird, a bird of passage.
Freight
The charge for transporting goods. Also called freightage.
Passenger
(obsolete) A passer-by; a wayfarer.
Freight
A railway train carrying goods only.
Passenger
(obsolete) A ship carrying passengers, a ferryboat.
Freight
To convey commercially as cargo.
Passenger
A moth, Dysgonia algira
Freight
To load with goods to be transported.
Passenger
(military) Any of the individual warheads of a MIRV missile.
Freight
To imbue with a specified element or elements
Freighted her words with innuendo.
Passenger
(intransitive) To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.
Freight
(uncountable) The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.
Passenger
A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.
Freight
(uncountable) Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.
The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.
Passenger
A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.
Freight
(countable) Payment for transportation.
The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.
Passenger
A traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
Freight
(figuratively)
Freight
(countable) A burden, a load.
Freight
Cultural or emotional associations.
Freight
(transitive)
Freight
To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.
Freight
To transport (goods).
Freight
(by extension) To load or store (goods, etc.).
Freight
(figuratively) To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
Freight
Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.
Freight
(obsolete) Freighted; laden.
Freight
That with which anything is 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.
Freight
The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
Freight
Freight transportation, or freight line.
Freight
Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.
Freight
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.
Freight
Goods carried by a large vehicle
Freight
Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
Freight
The charge for transporting something by common carrier;
We pay the freight
The freight rate is usually cheaper
Freight
Transport commercially as cargo
Freight
Load with goods for transportation
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