carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹ.ɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈkæɹ.i.ə/
ipa: /ˈkæɹ.i.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ-/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkarɪjə(r)/
homophone: career (spelling pronunciation)
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: carriers
Etymology: From Middle English cariere, partly from carien + -ere, after Anglo-Norman carier, cariour, and partly directly from Anglo-Norman. By surface analysis, carry + -er.
Senses: examples: text: armored personnel carrier
text: The air which is but […] a carrier of the sounds.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: bearer
word: -phore
word: translator
coordinate_terms: hauler
glosses: A person or object that carries someone or something else.
examples: text: Two weeks later, I reported to Pensacola, Florida, for duty aboard CV-48, the USS Saipan, a boxy old carrier the Navy retired from fleet duty and reassigned for use in training.
ref: 1999 March 24, Eugene Cernan, Don Davis, The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space, 1st edition, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 29:
synonyms: word: bearer
word: -phore
word: translator
coordinate_terms: hauler
glosses: A person or object that carries someone or something else.
Ellipsis of aircraft carrier.
examples: text: And each was hideously powerful: an attack carrier could destroy a world, a force of cruisers and spinship destroyers could destroy a sun.
ref: 1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
text: The first carrier completely ignored us, sir! Blew through the Malta’s debris field and headed straight for Earth!
ref: 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, spoken by Cortana (Jen Taylor), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station:
text: In fleet combat, carriers stay clear of battle, launching fighters bearing disruptor torpedoes. Fighters are the primary striking power of the ship; if a carrier enters mass accelerator range of the enemy, things have gone very wrong.
It is possible to recover and rearm fighters during combat, though most carriers seal the flight deck and try to stay out of the way. The flight deck is essentially a corridor through the armor and into the heart of the vessel. A single well-placed torpedo is enough to gut a carrier.
Alliance carriers are named after great leaders, artists, and intellectuals from human history.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Starships: Carriers Codex entry:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: word: bearer
word: -phore
word: translator
coordinate_terms: hauler
glosses: A person or object that carries someone or something else.
Ellipsis of aircraft carrier.
A starship designed to carry starfighters
synonyms: word: bearer
word: -phore
word: translator
coordinate_terms: hauler
glosses: A person or object that carries someone or something else.
Ellipsis of carrier bag.
glosses: A carrier pigeon.
examples: text: The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.
ref: 1727, Jonathan Swift, A Short View of the State of Ireland:
coordinate_terms: hauler
glosses: A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
glosses: A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
examples: text: Southwest, the nation’s largest domestic carrier, is installing seats with less cushion and thinner materials — a svelte model known in the business as “slim-line.”
ref: 2013 December 22, Jad Mouawad, Martha C. White, New York Times, retrieved 23 Dec 2013:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A certified airline.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That which drives or carries.
A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That which drives or carries.
A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That which drives or carries.
A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That which drives or carries.
A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
synonyms: spider
arm
topics: automotive
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: That which drives or carries.
Part of a differential gear assembly that holds gears and their bearings.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
glosses: A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A charge carrier.
examples: text: Linseed oil is often used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting.
text: inert carrier gas
topics: art
arts
business
manufacturing
glosses: A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.
Hyponyms: air carrier
aircraft carrier
airship carrier
amalgam carrier
armored personnel carrier
armoured personnel carrier
baby carrier
bag-carrier
ball carrier
balloon carrier
banner carrier
battlecarrier
bicycle carrier
bulk carrier
car carrier
carrier bag
carrier fluid
carrier gas
carrier oil
carrier-pigeon
carrier pigeon
carrier protein
carrier wave
cash carrier
charge carrier
child carrier
common carrier
electron carrier
energy carrier
English Carrier
escort carrier
first-level carrier
flag carrier
fleet carrier
harrier carrier
helicopter carrier
hod carrier
insurance carrier
ion carrier
jeep carrier
lathe carrier
letter-carrier
letter carrier
light carrier
lightning carrier
local exchange carrier
low cost carrier
low-cost carrier
mail-carrier
mail carrier
obligate carrier
old English carrier
people-carrier
people carrier
personnel carrier
pet carrier
plate-carrier
plating carrier
postal carrier
seaplane carrier
second-level carrier
spear-carrier
spear carrier
straddle carrier
T-carrier
third-level carrier
troop carrier
ultra large crude carrier
ultra low cost carrier
very large crude carrier
water carrier
water-carrier
Derived terms: anticarrier
ASW carrier
biocarrier
carrier cycle
carrier hotel
carrier set
carrier shell
carriership
crude carrier
immunocarrier
intercarrier
macrocarrier
megacarrier
microcarrier
multicarrier
nanocarrier
noncarrier
OBO carrier
ore-bulk-oil carrier
phosphocarrier
photocarrier
subcarrier
supercarrier