Meaning of Carrier | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes considered to be three separate languages: Southern Carrier, Northern Carrier and Central Carrier.
   countable, uncountable
2. Synonym of English Carrier.
3. A person or object that carries someone or something else.
4. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
5. Ellipsis of aircraft carrier.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
6. A starship designed to carry starfighters
   broadly
7. A small town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States; from the surname.
   countable, uncountable
8. Ellipsis of carrier bag.
   UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
9. A carrier pigeon.
10. A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
11. A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
12. A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
13. A certified airline.
14. That which drives or carries.
15. A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
16. A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
17. A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
18. A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
19. Part of a differential gear assembly that holds gears and their bearings.
    especially
20. A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
21. A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
22. A charge carrier.
23. A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.

Equivalents

Examples

“armored personnel carrier”

“The air which is but […] a carrier of the sounds.”

“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.”

“And each was hideously powerful: an attack carrier could destroy a world, a force of cruisers and spinship destroyers could destroy a sun.”

“The first carrier completely ignored us, sir! Blew through the Malta’s debris field and headed straight for Earth!”

“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.”

“The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.”

“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.””

“Linseed oil is often used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting.”

“inert carrier gas”

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