Loads vs Cargo - What's the difference?
loads | cargo |
(slang, mainly UK) Lots, much, plenty, a great deal.
(load)
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 loads and cargo
is that loads is (load) while cargo is .As an adjective loads
is (slang|mainly uk) lots, much, plenty, a great deal.As a noun loads
is .loads
English
Adjective
(head)Synonyms
* a lot * a thing or two * tonsNoun
(head)Verb
(head)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)."