CARGO (cargoes)

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Irregular inflected form: cargoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cargo mean? 

• CARGO (noun)
  The noun CARGO has 1 sense:

1. goods carried by a large vehicle

  Familiarity information: CARGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Goods carried by a large vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cargo; consignment; freight; lading; load; loading; payload; shipment

Hypernyms ("cargo" is a kind of...):

merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)

 Context examples 

Just as a grounded boat can float again when the weight of its cargo is removed, a glacier that loses ice weight can float over land where it used to stick.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)

The Grayback was short on torpedoes from its recent attack on Japanese cargo ships.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)

The first is that helicopters frequently fly in and out of the Dry Valleys to transport researchers and scientific cargo into the field.

(Antarctic lakes are a repository for ancient soot, NSF)

These markers impact a cell’s activity by changing the stability of microtubules, thus affecting cell shape, or by repositioning molecular cargo traveling on the microtubules.

(Scientists unravel the mystery of the tubulin code, NIH)

Cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) are cationic and/or amphipathic peptides, typically less than 30 amino acids in length, that can penetrate cell membranes easily and may transport molecular cargo.

(Azurin:50-77 Cell Penetrating Peptide p28, NCI Thesaurus)

Depending on the various proteins that enter the endosome membrane, these cargoes are sorted to distinct destinations.

(Endocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

No need to speak of the glad hearts at Twynham Castle that night, nor of the rich offerings from out that Moorish cargo which found their way to the chapel of Father Christopher.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A parachute will slow the capsule down so it can be retrieved, then researchers will go about examining the precious cargo taken directly from an asteroid.

(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)

He was brought from the castle by Szgany, and probably they delivered their cargo to Slovaks who took the boxes to Varna, for there they were shipped for London.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)