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CARGO
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Irregular inflected form: cargoes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Goods carried by a large vehicle
Synonyms:
cargo; consignment; freight; lading; load; loading; payload; shipment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cargo" is a kind of...):
merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)
Context examples:
I know, also, that they were all three away from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has been loading their cargo.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Like trimming cargo in the tropics," Martin said, when they went upstairs.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I put my cows and sheep into my coat-pockets, and got on board with all my little cargo of provisions.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Pork, powder, and biscuit was the cargo, with only a musket and a cutlass apiece for the squire and me and Redruth and the captain.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“It was only last year,” said a very gentlemanly-looking officer, who might have passed for a buck upon town had his skin not been burned to copper in such sunshine as never bursts upon London—“it was only last year that I brought the old Alexander back from the Mediterranean, floating like an empty barrel and carrying nothing but honour for her cargo.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I could not proceed to the schoolroom without passing some of their doors, and running the risk of being surprised with my cargo of victualage; so I stood still at this end, which, being windowless, was dark: quite dark now, for the sun was set and twilight gathering.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I used to be home for the week-ends very often, and sometimes if the ship were held back for cargo I would have a whole week at a time, and in this way I saw a deal of my sister-in-law, Sarah.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
CRM1 nuclear export inhibitor KPT-330 modifies the essential CRM1-cargo binding residue cysteine-528, thereby irreversibly inactivates CRM1-mediated nuclear export of cargo proteins such as tumor suppressor proteins (TSPs), including p53, p21, BRCA1/2, pRB, FOXO, and other growth regulatory proteins.
(CRM1 Nuclear Export Inhibitor KPT-330, NCI Thesaurus)
On his way back, as he rode towards the village, he saw that she had indeed anchored, and that many boats were round her, bearing cargo to the shore.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There are distinct mechanisms of clathrin-independent endocytosis (CIE) depending upon the cargo and the cell type.
(Endocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
