freighter
货船,货轮,货机,货运船
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Definitions
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- : a vessel used mainly for carrying cargo.
- : a large aircraft or spacecraft used primarily for transporting cargo and equipment: The space station of the future will be supplied by robot freighters.
- : a person whose occupation it is to receive and forward freight.
- : a person for whom freight is transported; shipper.
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The world's maritime industry — from ferries to freighters — is trying to navigate a once-in-a-century transition away from fossil fuels to new, cleaner means of propulsion.
Lightning flashes are more frequent along shipping routes, where freighters emit particulates into the air, than in the surrounding ocean.
There are many other coastal freighter types that are similar in size and energy demand.’
The 7,000-ton freighter is still stocked with sake bottles and four fighter planes, and it is encircled by gray reef.
The red bottom-plates of a submarine freighter came rolling up behind the surge to show how futile was the might of man.
Jandron only means that Miss Mallen is much more comfortable on this passenger-ship than she'd be in your freighter.
Ummm—seems so—wasn't she the big freighter that disappeared many years ago?
The freighter had a long black-snake whip, and was snapping it about the ears of the leaders.
The two machines glided up the slope, leaving the baffled and swearing freighter far behind.