cargoes

Meanings

• noun

  A large quantity of goods, especially merchandise, carried in a ship or by a transport vehicle.

  - "The cargo ship was carrying electronics and textiles from Asia to Europe."
  - "The pirates stole the valuable cargo from the merchant vessel."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with cargoes
marches , charges , stages , pages

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Variants

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cargo , cargoes , cargos

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Etymology

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From Middle English carge, cargo, from Old French carge, charge, load, from carrier, from carrire, to carry.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'cargo' comes from the Old French word 'carriage', which means 'carrying'.

2. The largest container ship ever built can carry over 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo.

3. The first cargo to be transported across the Atlantic Ocean was wine from Portugal to England in the late 13th century.

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Related Concepts

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1. Merchandise: Goods or commodities bought or sold.

2. Shipment: The act of sending goods by ship.

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Culture

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Cargoes have been a significant aspect of maritime history and trade. The term is often used in literature and poetry to describe the riches brought back from voyages.

How to Memorize "cargoes"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a large ship filled with containers or pallets of various goods. Imagine the cranes lifting the containers off the ship and transporting them to trucks or trains.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'cargoes' with the image of a ship carrying valuable goods.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Cargo Ship' to remember the definition: 'C' for 'Cargo', 'A' for 'A large', 'G' for 'Goods', 'O' for 'On', and 'S' for 'Ship'.

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