cargo

noun
/ˈkɑːɡəʊ/UK/ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga.

  1. derived from carricō
  2. borrowed from cargo

Definitions

  1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.

    • The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.
    • "[…]her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,[…]"
    • "[…]but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."
  2. Western material goods.

    • In this study of colonial and postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult.
    • Why is it that Europeans, despite their likely genetic disadvantage and (in modern times) their undoubted developmental disadvantage, ended up with much more of the cargo?·
  3. To load with freight.

  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. A surname.

    2. A village in Kingmoor parish, Carlisle, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3659).

    3. A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cargo. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cargo. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at cargo

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA