Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A vehicle, especially a ship, used for carrying freight.
- n. A shipper of cargo.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who freights or charters a ship for the transportation of goods or merchandise; a shipper.
- n. One who sends goods by land or by sea, either for himself or for others. See freight, n., 2.
- n. A ship or vessel engaged in the carrying-trade.
Wiktionary
- 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; a cargo ship.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a cargo ship
Examples
“•The freighter is blown up just after a group of Oceanic survivors takes off from the deck in a helicopter flown by Frank Lapidus.”
“We were left with the strange impression that the doctor on the freighter is still alive, at least in Freighter Time, yet has already washed up dead on the island.”
The Tail Section » Episode 4.9 “The Shape of Things to Come” Afterthoughts
“Russian oil billionaire and owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich, is in talks to take a controlling interest in Italian freighter operator, Ocean Airlines.”
“Attorney's Office to prosecute the organization rather than just the activists who boarded the APL Jade freighter is a sea change in policy, and a conviction would throttle free speech everywhere ...”
“Then came yet another blip, this one identified as a freighter, which went on to launch a missile at the planet.”
“Ben is trying to tell Jack that if he calls the freighter everyone on the Island will be killed.”
“He confirms that Desmond will be having time travel flashes as opposed to flashbacks or flash forwards, and also mentions that we’ll find out who Ben’s man on the freighter is within the next few episodes.”
“There are 74 orders for the freighter, which is undergoing test flights.”
“His freighter was the first to arrive with emergency food for Tarsus Four after the massacre there.”
“But somehow, that thief sensed the freighter was a dummy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘freighter’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 468 more...
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat.boat, ship, skiff, barge, canoe, catamaran, yacht, scow, lifeboat, launch, ketch, dory and 303 more...
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and Bristol fashion
being items related to boats, ships, sailing, nautical and naval lore &c.
sloop, frigate, brigantine, brig, grog, schooner, rig, sail, canvas, jib, forestay, cutter and 150 more...
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Tunie: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Music and lyrics ©1976 by Gordon Lightfoot
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee."
The lake, it is said, never gives up ...twenty-nine, chimed, church, cathedral, sailors, maritime, detroit, remembered, mariners, lake erie, lake ontario, bays and 53 more...
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General Collectibles
Amassing a good trove for starters.
ancient, parallax, temporal, placket, salient, replete, synecdoche, abstruse, abject, parse, discursive, egress and 39 more...
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Maritime
Nautilusty
abaft, navalis, coastal, nautical, marine, sea, sea-going, Occident, Orient, trans-Atlantic, amidships, transom and 28 more...
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travelling
dirigible, nautilus, tireme, odyssey, timeship, spaceship, jet, car, jeep, phaeton, truck, lightship and 58 more...
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