Cargo vs Harbor - What's the difference?
cargo | harbor |
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
A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may dock or anchor, especially for loading and unloading.
Any place of shelter.
To provide a harbor or safe place for.
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, title= To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.
To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.
As verbs the difference between cargo and harbor
is that cargo is while harbor is to provide a harbor or safe place for.As a noun harbor is
a sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may dock or anchor, especially for loading and unloading.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 *harbor
English
Alternative forms
* harbour (Commonwealth) * herberwe (obsolete) * herborough (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- A harbor''', even if it is a little '''harbor , is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return -
- The neighborhood is a well-known harbor for petty thieves.
Derived terms
* harborage * harbormaster * harbor seal * safe harborVerb
(en verb)Katie L. Burke
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