Oh my word Freight, Fright

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” –Theodore Roosevelt

Freight charges can increase depending upon the global oil prices, and also local factors which can give a fright to the transporters and transport companies who usually move bulk goods from one place to another place.

What causes you fright in life?

The sight of snakes in human form, and cockroaches: certainly not the freight fares! Freight refers to transporting of goods by ships, airplanes, trains, cargo. Freight as a noun refers to cargo, goods, merchandise, consignment, tonnage of goods. Freight transport is usually slower than other services such as express or speed couriers but these days freight is delivered faster due to technological advances in transportation.

Freighter is an airliner or ship, or which transports freight. Global courier companies have exclusive flights to carry freight from one continent to another continent, from one country to another country. Gone are the days when merchandise was transported by freight-carts driven by horses, or oxen.

E-tailers (or online retailers) send goods bought on online by air freight or in road transport depending upon the urgency of the customers. Freight as a verb means transporting something such as goods, cargo, etc as freight. Freight car is a railway wagon for carrying freight.

Freightliner is a train that carries goods or cargo in containers. Freightliner is a goods train. Fright functions as a noun and verb. As noun, freight refers to a state of fear that is sudden, or extreme. What causes fright? The appearance of gory or grotesque things; or appearances causes fright to the family.

She had taken fright (become frightened) of oncoming vehicle that almost smashed her car. Are you frightener (a person or thing that frightens) or charmer? Frighten is a verb meaning cause fear in others, terrifying someone. Other variants of frighten are frightening (adjective) and frighteningly (adverb).

Have you seen any frightening movies? Is old age a cause for frightfulness? Nuclear arms race frightens the world because of which there is cry for nuclear disarmament. Frightful is an adjective meaning that which is dreadful, shocking, ugly, extremely bad or awful; and colloquially frightful refers to extreme, very great (she has frightful eyebrows).

His mind is filled with frightful ideas. Frightful overtures are avoided in diplomacy. Other grammatical variants of fright are frightfully (adverb), and frightfulness (noun). The transportation of billions of tones of freight causes fright to environmentalists.

Kovuuri G Reddy