[freɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft
(e.g: a decline in the amount of freight carried by rail)

- a freight train
(e.g: I can hear the regular wail of the twelve o'clock freight from my house)

- a load or burden
(e.g: these warm winds deposit their freight of moisture in showers of rain)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘hire of a ship for transporting goods’): from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German vrecht, variant of vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with fraught

[freɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft
(e.g: the metals had been freighted from the city)

- be laden or burdened with
(e.g: each word was freighted with anger)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘hire of a ship for transporting goods’): from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German vrecht, variant of vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with fraught