Cargo vs Ferry - What's the difference?
cargo | ferry |
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 ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
* Milton
* Campbell
* around 1900 , O. Henry,
The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.
To carry; transport; convey.
* 2007 , Rick Bass, The Lives of Rocks :
To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
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, title= To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between cargo and ferry
is that cargo is freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc while ferry is a ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.As a verb ferry is
to carry; transport; convey.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 *ferry
English
Noun
(ferries)- It can pass the ferry backward into light.
- to row me o'er the ferry
- She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry , and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.
Derived terms
* ferry bridge * ferry railwayDescendants
* French: (l) * Malay: (l) * Swahili: (l)Verb
(en-verb)- We ferried our stock in U-Haul trailers, and across the months, as we purchased more cowflesh from the Goat Man — meat vanishing into the ether again and again, as if into some quarkish void — we became familiar enough with Sloat and his daughter to learn that her name was Flozelle, and to visit with them about matters other than stock.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro.