Main Difference
The main difference between Carriage and Freight is that the Carriage is a generally horse-drawn means of transport and Freight is a goods or produce transported.
Carriage
A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn; litters (palanquins) and sedan chairs are excluded, since they are wheelless vehicles. The carriage is especially designed for private passenger use, though some are also used to transport goods. A public passenger vehicle would not usually be called a carriage – terms for such include stagecoach, charabanc and omnibus. It may be light, smart and fast or heavy, large and comfortable or luxurious. Carriages normally have suspension using leaf springs, elliptical springs (in the 19th century) or leather strapping. Working vehicles such as the (four-wheeled) wagon and (two-wheeled) cart share important parts of the history of the carriage, as does too the fast (two-wheeled) chariot.
Freight
In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by water, air or land. Cargo was originally a shipload. Cargo now covers all types of freight, including that carried by train, van, truck, or intermodal container. The term cargo is also used in case of goods in the cold-chain, because the perishable inventory is always in transit towards a final end-use, even when it is held in cold storage or other similar climate-controlled facility.
Multi-modal container units, designed as reusable carriers to facilitate unit load handling of the goods contained, are also referred to as cargo, specially by shipping lines and logistics operators. Similarly, aircraft ULD boxes are also documented as cargo, with associated packing list of the items contained within. When empty containers are shipped each unit is documented as a cargo and when goods are stored within, the contents are termed as containerised cargo.
Carriage (noun)
The act of conveying; carrying.
Carriage (noun)
Means of conveyance.
Carriage (noun)
A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
“The carriage ride was very romantic.”
Carriage (noun)
A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
Carriage (noun)
A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
Carriage (noun)
One’s behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
Carriage (noun)
The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
Carriage (noun)
A shopping cart.
Carriage (noun)
A stroller; a baby carriage.
Carriage (noun)
The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).
Carriage (noun)
That which is carried, baggage
Freight (noun)
Payment for transportation.
“The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.”
Freight (noun)
Goods or items in transport.
“The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.”
Freight (noun)
Transport of goods.
“They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.”
Freight (noun)
Cultural or emotional associations.
“A wedding ring is small, but it has massive emotional freight.”
Freight (verb)
To transport (goods).
Freight (verb)
To load with freight. Also figurative.
Freight (noun)
goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft
“a decline in the amount of freight carried by rail”
Freight (noun)
the transport of goods by truck, train, ship, or aircraft
“the truck-based system can outperform air freight at distances of up to seven hundred miles”
Freight (noun)
a charge for transport by freight
“a bill indicating that the freight has been paid”
Freight (noun)
a freight train
“I can hear the regular wail of the twelve o’clock freight from my house”
Freight (noun)
a load or burden
“these warm winds deposit their freight of moisture in showers of rain”
Freight (verb)
transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft
“the metals had been freighted from the city”
Freight (verb)
be laden or burdened with
“each word was freighted with anger”