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Carnage vs Cartage - What's the difference?

carnage | cartage |

As nouns the difference between carnage and cartage

is that carnage is death and destruction while cartage is the transport of goods by cart; carting.

carnage

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Death and destruction.
  • What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
  • Any chaotic situation.
  • * 2014 , Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas
  • The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.

    Synonyms

    * bloodbath * massacre

    Anagrams

    * ----

    cartage

    English

    Noun

  • The transport of goods by cart; carting
  • A charge made for such transport
  • Quotations

    * 1848 Thomas Carlyle - Thomas Carlyle *: Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted * 1842 Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners - Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law *: Two-thirds of the usual expense of street cleansing is the expense of cartage , which, with a proper adaptation of the sewers, is wholly unnecessary.