| handling manipulation | the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means |
| handling | manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something |
| materials handling | act of loading and unloading and moving goods within e.g. a factory especially using mechanical devices |
| treatment handling | the management of someone or something, the handling of prisoners, the treatment of water sewage, the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system |
cargo
lading
freight
load loading
payload
shipment
consignment | goods carried by a large vehicle |
cargo area
cargo deck
cargo hold
hold storage area | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo |
| cargo container | a large container for freight |
| cargo door | door used to load or unload cargo |
| cargo hatch | hatch opening into the cargo compartment |
| cargo helicopter | a helicopter that carries cargo |
| cargo liner | a liner that carries cargo |
cargo ship
cargo vessel | a ship designed to carry cargo |
shipping
cargo ships
merchant marine
merchant vessels | conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry |
| bulk | the property possessed by a large mass |
bulk
mass volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude, it is cheaper to buy it in bulk, he received a mass of correspondence, the volume of exports |
majority
bulk | the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts, the main part, the majority of his customers prefer it, the bulk of the work is finished |
| cargo cult | a religious cult that anticipates a time of joy, serenity, and justice when salvation comes |
| bulk mail | mail consisting of large numbers of identical items (circulars or advertisements) sent to individual addresses at less than stlass rates and paid for in one lot |
| cargo cult | (Melanesia) the followers of one of several millenarian cults that believe salvation will come in the form of wealth (`cargo') brought by westerners, some ascribe divine attributes to westerners on first contact (especially to missionaries) |
handling cost
handling charge | the cost of handling (especially the cost of packaging and mailing an order) |
| bulk modulus | the ratio of the change in pressure acting on a volume to the fractional change in volume |
| bulge bulk | cause to bulge or swell outwards |
| bulk | stick out or up, The parcel bulked in the sack |
| brood hover loom bulk large | hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing, The terrible vision brooded over her all day long |