Cargo vs Backload - What's the difference?
cargo | backload |
Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
* 1806 , James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
* 1913 , Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence ,
(Papua New Guinea ) Western material goods.
* 1995 , Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji , Duke University Press, page xi
To load toward the back, or towards the end of a period
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(transport) To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed.
To fill a syringe with solution from the plunger end of the barrel
As a noun cargo
is freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.As a verb backload is
to load toward the back, or towards the end of a period.cargo
English
Noun
- "…her whole and entire cargo'; and, also, all such other ' cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,…"
- "…but human life is worth more than ships or cargos ."
- "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "cargo " cult)."
Derived terms
* cargo cult *backload
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