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freighter

/frey-ter/US // ˈfreɪ tər //UK // (ˈfreɪtə) //

货船,货轮,货机,货运船

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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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Examples

  • 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.