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Wagon vs Freight - What's the difference?

wagon | freight |

As nouns the difference between wagon and freight

is that wagon is while freight is payment for transportation.

As a verb freight is

to transport (goods).

wagon

English

Alternative forms

* waggon (UK)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
  • A freight car on a railway.
  • A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
  • (US, Australia, slang) A station wagon (or SUV).
  • (slang) A paddy wagon.
  • A truck, or lorry.
  • (Ireland, slang, dated, derogatory) (A derogatory term for a woman); bitch; slapper; cow.
  • * 1974 , in Threshold , Issues 25–27, Lyric Players Theatre, page 96:
  • “I’m not like that; I know what you mean but I’m not like that. When you said a field I nearly laughed because I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon . She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.”
  • * 1990 , Roddy Doyle, The Snapper , Penguin Group (1992), ISBN 978-0-14-017167-9:
  • pages 30–31: —Don’t know. ——She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. ¶ Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. ¶ —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.
  • * 1998 , Neville Thompson, Two Birds/One Stoned , Poolbeg:
  • page 8: “Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon .”

    Derived terms

    * broom wagon * bandwagon * chuck wagon * covered wagon * fall off the wagon * fix someone's wagon * hitch one's wagon to a star * jump on the bandwagon * meat wagon * on the bandwagon * on the wagon * off the wagon * paddy wagon * station wagon * waggoner * wagon train

    Descendants

    * German: (l) * Spanish:

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transport by means of a wagon.
  • To travel in a wagon.
  • See also

    * (wikipedia "wagon")

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    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

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