Fraught vs Thwart - What's the difference?
fraught | thwart |
(obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
(obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
(obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
(obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
(Scotland) A load; a burden.
(Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).
To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
* 1610 , , by Shakespeare
(of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
* Shakespeare
Furnished, equipped.
Loaded up, charged or accompanied.
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Distressed.
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To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
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, title= (obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
(nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
* Milton
(figurative) Perverse; crossgrained.
Obliquely; transversely; athwart.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between fraught and thwart
is that fraught is (obsolete) a ship's cargo, lading or freight while thwart is (obsolete) to move across or counter to; to cross.As nouns the difference between fraught and thwart
is that fraught is (obsolete) the hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo while thwart is (nautical) a brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.As verbs the difference between fraught and thwart
is that fraught is to load (a ship, cargo etc) while thwart is to prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.As adjectives the difference between fraught and thwart
is that fraught is (of a cargo-carrier) laden while thwart is situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.As an adverb thwart is
obliquely; transversely; athwart.fraught
English
Noun
(-)- fraught money .
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* fraught-freeVerb
(en verb)- Had I been any god of power, I would / Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er / It should the good ship so have swallow'd and / The fraughting souls within her.
Adjective
(en adjective)- a vessel of our country richly fraught
- a discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech
- enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits
- all these matters are fraught with paradox, just as they always have been
- a fraught relationship
References
*thwart
English
Verb
(en verb)- The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.
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- Swift as a shooting star / In autumn thwarts the night.
Synonyms
* See also * foil, frustrate, impede, spoilDerived terms
* athwart * athwartships * thwarter * thwartsomeNoun
(en noun)- A well made doughout canoe rarely needs a thwart .
- The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
- (Shakespeare)
Adverb
(-)- (Milton)