Container vs. Cargo

Container vs. Cargo — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Container and Cargo

Containernoun

Someone who contains; something that contains.

Cargonoun

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

Containernoun

An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.

Cargonoun

(Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.

Containernoun

(transportation) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

Cargonoun

goods carried by a large vehicle

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Containernoun

(by extension) Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.

Containernoun

(computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.

Containernoun

(object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.

Containernoun

Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

Containernoun

any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)