freight vs transport

freight

noun
  • The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation. 

  • Payment for transportation. 

  • Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage. 

  • A burden, a load. 

  • Cultural or emotional associations. 

verb
  • To load or store (goods, etc.). 

  • To transport (goods). 

  • To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load. 

  • Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo. 

  • To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers. 

transport

noun
  • An act of transporting; conveyance. 

  • The state of being transported by emotion; rapture. 

  • A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.) 

  • A tractor-trailer. 

  • A deported convict. 

  • A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc. 

  • The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system. 

verb
  • To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey. 

  • To deport to a penal colony. 

  • To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away. 

How often have the words freight and transport occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )