freightの意味・使い方・発音

freight

英 [freɪt] 美 [fret]

freight 貨物、貨物。

原語のゲルマン語 *fra-aigan, *fra, entire, *aigan, to own, all が語源。原語の意味は水上輸送や船舶輸送のみであったが、後に一般化した。

freight: freight: see fraught
freight (n.): early 15c. "transporting of goods and passengers by water," variant of fraght, which is from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht (see fraught). Danish fragt, Swedish frakt apparently also are from Dutch or Frisian. Also from Low German are Portuguese frete, Spanish flete, and French fret, which might have changed the vowel in this variant of the English word. Meaning "cargo of a ship" is from c. 1500. Freight-train is from 1841.
freight (v.): "to load (a ship) with goods or merchandise for shipment," mid-15c. variant of Middle English fraught (v.) "to load (a ship)," c. 1400; see fraught, and compare freight (n.). Figuratively, "to carry or transport," 1530s. Related: Freighted; freighting.

1. On the customs declaration，the sender labeled the freight as agricultural machinery.: 通関申告書では、出荷者は貨物を農業用機械としてリストした。

2.The railways will carry a far higher proportion of freight traffic.: 鉄道は、はるかに高い貨物輸送量を負担します。

3.Environmental pressures are strengthening the case for waterborne freight .

環境の圧力は人々に水上輸送をより認可させた。