freight car
4
3.2
- noun
- /freɪt kɑr/
- US
:
vagón de carga
- The freight car was loaded with boxes of food for the grocery store.
- freight cars and locomotives
- railroad freight cars
- string of freight cars
Initially that was blamed on a lack of like trains and freight cars.
- Initially that was blamed on a lack of like trains and freight cars.
Examples
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The Georgian noisily opened the doors of the freight car.
Fiction book (1992) -
The train moved slowly, carrying lathe machines under tarpaulin covers on the flatcars and refugees in the heated freight cars, traveling mainly at night.
Fiction book (2001) -
This is the freight car.
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Two men went into the freight car.
Fiction book (1992) -
The two men moved toward each other in hopes that they might be loaded into the same freight car.
Fiction book (1991) -
We should've hooked it to those freight cars by now.
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The loaders carried the crates from the freight car.
Fiction book (1992) -
Perkins, go up to the stonington railroad, tell them to run 20 freight cars onto our dock before 3:00.
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Raton, leaning against the freight car, laughed, then patted him on the arm.
Fiction book (2002) -
In the makeup of the passenger train, southbound, was a long string of empty freight cars being hauled down into South Georgia to be loaded with watermelons for upcountry markets.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
130
5.7
A vehicle on tracks that carries passengers or goods
22
6.5
A train car with a roof and sliding side doors used to carry goods
6
2.5
A vehicle on railway tracks that carries people or goods
5
3.0
A train car that carries passengers' luggage
4
4.7
A rail car that carries cows or other farm animals
1
2.3
A vehicle that runs on tracks and carries people or goods
1
3.5
A train car without a roof that carries coal
1
6.3
A train wagon with bars on the sides for carrying animals like cows
1
3.5
A train carriage where postal workers sort and carry mail while the train moves
A train car that carries passengers' bags
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Morphology
The meaning 'a railroad vehicle for carrying goods' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'freight' (goods/cargo) with 'car' (rail vehicle), so the compound denotes a car used for freight. This noun-compounding pattern is regular in English and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Freight car comes from two simple words: freight, meaning 'goods', and car, meaning a 'vehicle' or 'wagon' that runs on rails. So the name simply describes a train vehicle that carries goods.