Loading vs Cargo - What's the difference?
loading | cargo |
(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.
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
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
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(head)cargo
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- "…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)."