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Loading vs Cargo - What's the difference?

loading | cargo |

As verbs the difference between loading and cargo

is that loading is while cargo is .

As a noun loading

is (uncountable) the action of the verb to load .

loading

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to load .
  • :The loading of hazardous cargoes is not permitted.
  • (countable) A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied.
  • :I need to recheck the loadings on the external walls.
  • :The loading on the generators peaks during the early evening.
  • (Australia, industrial relations, countable) A hourly pay rate given to a casual employee which is higher than an equivalent full-time or part-time employee, usually paid to compensate for a lack of benefits such as sick leave or annual leave.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • cargo

    English

    Noun

  • Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
  • * 1806 , James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
  • "…her whole and entire cargo'; and, also, all such other ' cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,…"
  • * 1913 , Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence ,
  • "…but human life is worth more than ships or cargos ."
  • (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
  • "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 *