freight vs transport

freight and transport both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
freight	Yes	No	Yes	No
transport	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, transport is a hypernym of freight; that is, transport is a word with a broader meaning than freight:

freight: transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
transport: the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

Other hypernyms of freight include shipping, transportation.

As verbs, transport is a hypernym of freight; that is, transport is a word with a broader meaning than freight:

freight (noun)	transport (noun)
transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates	the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
goods carried by a large vehicle	the act of moving something from one location to another
the charge for transporting something by common carrier	something that serves as a means of transportation
	a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
	an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
	a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

freight (verb)	transport (verb)
load with goods for transportation	move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
transport commercially as cargo	send from one person or place to another
	hold spellbound
	move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
	transport commercially