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Freight vs Delivery - What's the difference?

freight | delivery |

As nouns the difference between freight and delivery

is that freight is payment for transportation while delivery is the act of conveying something.

As a verb freight

is to transport (goods).

freight

English

Noun

(-)
  • Payment for transportation.
    • The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.
  • Goods or items in transport.
    • The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.
  • Transport of goods.
    • They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.
  • (label) Cultural or emotional associations.
    • A wedding ring is small, but it has massive emotional freight .

    Synonyms

    * cargo * luggage

    Derived terms

    * freight car * freighter * freight yard * pay the freight

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transport (goods).
  • To load with freight. Also figurative .
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * fraught

    Anagrams

    * *

    See also

    * English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    delivery

    English

    Noun

    (deliveries)
  • The act of conveying something.
    • The delivery was completed by four.
    delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
  • The item which has been conveyed.
    • Your delivery is on the table.
  • The act of giving birth
    • The delivery was painful.
  • (baseball) A pitching motion.
    • ''His delivery has a catch in it.
  • (baseball) A thrown pitch.
    • ''Here is the delivery ; ... strike three!
  • The manner of speaking.
    • The actor's delivery was flawless.
  • * 1919 ,
    • I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=Half of the comedy in West’s self-deprecating appearance on “Mr. Plow” comes from the veteran actor’s purring, self-satisfied delivery as he tells a deeply unnerved Bart and Lisa of the newfangled, less groovy cinematic Batman}}
  • (medicine) administration of a drug
    • Drug delivery system .
  • (cricket) A ball .
  • (curling) The process of throwing a stone.

    • Derived terms

    * delivery room * special delivery