Definition

1. Noun:
   • A train that carries goods: A "freight train" is a railroad train composed of freight cars or wagons designed to transport cargo, not passengers.
   • A long, heavy, and powerful train: The term often implies a train that is long, slow-moving, and carries substantial weight.

Examples

• Noun:
  • The long freight train carried coal from the mines to the power plant.
  • We had to wait at the crossing for a freight train to pass.

Advanced Usage

• "like a freight train": Used as a simile to describe something that is very powerful, unstoppable, or overwhelming in force or momentum.
  • His criticism hit me like a freight train.
  • The new policy is moving through the legislature like a freight train.

Variants and Related Words

• Freight (n): Goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.
  • The port handles millions of tons of freight each year.
• Freight car (n): A railroad car used for transporting goods.
  • The freight cars were loaded with lumber.
• Goods train (n): The British English equivalent term for a freight train.

Synonyms

• Goods train (primarily British English)
• Cargo train

Related Phrases

• Freight train of thought: An idiom describing a line of thinking that is powerful, direct, and difficult to stop or derail.
  • Once he starts explaining his theory, it's a freight train of thought.

Noun

1. a railroad train consisting of freight cars