Carriage vs. Freight — What's the Difference?

A carriage is a private four-wheeled vehicle for people and is most commonly horse-drawn. Second-hand private carriages were common public transport, the equivalent of modern cars used as taxis.

Goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft

A wheeled vehicle, especially a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle, often of an elegant design.

A freight train

Chiefly British A railroad passenger car.

A load or burden

A baby carriage.

Transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft

A wheeled support or frame for carrying a heavy object, such as a cannon.

Be laden or burdened with

A moving part of a machine for holding or shifting another part

Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo.

The act or process of transporting or carrying.

A burden; a load.

(kărē-ĭj) The cost of or the charge for transporting.

Commercial transportation of goods.

The manner of holding and moving one's head and body; bearing.

The charge for transporting goods. Also called freightage.

(Archaic) Management; administration.

A railway train carrying goods only.

The act of conveying; carrying.

To convey commercially as cargo.

Means of conveyance.

To load with goods to be transported.

A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.

To imbue with a specified element or elements

A railroad car

(uncountable) The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.

The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head.

(uncountable) Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.

A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.

(countable) Payment for transportation.

(archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.

(figuratively)

The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.

(countable) A burden, a load.

A shopping cart.

Cultural or emotional associations.

(British) A stroller; a baby carriage.

(transitive)

The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).

To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.

(archaic) That which is carried, baggage

To transport (goods).

That which is carried; burden; baggage.

(by extension) To load or store (goods, etc.).

The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.

(figuratively) To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.

The price or expense of carrying.

Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.

That which carries of conveys,

(obsolete) Freighted; laden.

The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.

That with which anything is fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.

The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

A railcar where passengers ride

Freight transportation, or freight line.

A vehicle with four wheels drawn by two or more horses

Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.

Characteristic way of bearing one's body;

To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

A machine part that carries something else

Goods carried by a large vehicle

A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around

Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

The charge for transporting something by common carrier;

Transport commercially as cargo

Load with goods for transportation