Definition of freight for Students. 1 : goods or cargo carried by a ship, train, truck, or airplane. 2 : the carrying (as by truck) of goods from one place to another The order was shipped by freight. 3 : the amount paid (as to a shipping company) for carrying goods. 4 : a train that carries freight.
The Robot (a B-9 Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot) was a character in the television series Lost in Space. Known and addressed simply as Robot, his full...
Robot is a relative newcomer to the English language. It was the brainchild of the Czech playwright, novelist and journalist Karel Äapek, who introduced it in his 1920 hit play, R.U.R. , or Rossum's Universal Robots. Science historian Howard Markel discusses how Äapek thought up the word.