What is "carter"

Daddy longlegs \Dad"dy long"legs`\

1. (Zo["o]l.) An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.

Marysole \Ma"ry*sole\, n. [Mary, the proper name + sole the fish.] (Zo["o]l.) A large British fluke, or flounder ( Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff.

"cart-driver," late 12c., from Anglo-French careter, and in part an agent noun from cart (v.).

n. (context dated English) A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.

A carter is a person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden. The driver of a wagon might also be called teamster.

Carter may refer to:

• Carter (name), a surname

Carter (dates unknown) was an English professional cricketer who made 4 known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1793 to 1795.

Carter is a privately held commercial real estate investment, development and advisory firm, headquartered in Atlanta.

John Carter is an American artist and film director based in New York City, using the professional name Carter for his artworks. He was born in 1970 in Norwich, Connecticut

Carter studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1992. He then studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1994, and the University of California, Davis, earning an MFA degree in 1997.

Carter is best known for his artwork that spans various media from painting and photography to sculptural installations, film and video. His works have been exhibited internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the USA Today and Abstract America exhibitions, at the Saatchi Gallery in London, England. His works have also been shown at the Royal Academy in London and the in Bolzano, Italy. A comprehensive catalogue of Carter's work edited by Georg Kargl was published in 2008 titled, '' An Arm with Hair, (The Vienna Catalogue 1973)''. (ISBN 978-3-7082-3254-6). Publication Studios in 2009 published Carter's, "California Film: 1996". (ISBN 978-0-9843-0607-7).

Carter is a family name, and also may be a given name. Carter is of Irish, Scottish and English origin and is an occupational name given to one who transports goods by cart or wagon originally believed to be of Gaelic and Celtic origins and a possible form of the names McCarthy, McArthur, McCartney or McCarter. Mc generally means son of. However, it is known to be from the Gaelic word cairt meaning cart. It is the 44th most common surname in the United States, 56th most common in the United Kingdom, 523rd most common in Ireland, and 274th in Scotland. Being of Gaelic and Celtic origins the name originated in Ireland and Scotland and later migrated to England where it was reduced to its English pronunciation and form.

People of Caucasian heritage bearing this surname may trace their ancestors back to Ireland, England or Scotland, many of these name holders ancestors escaped Ireland during the Irish diaspora heading to Great Britain, the American colonies typically the colonies of New York, Massachusetts, Georgia and Virginia. Other immigrants entered the United States later during the Great Famine of Ireland in the 1840s and later. The Irish counties with the highest amount of families having this surname are Laois, Galway, Meath and Leitrim; Laois seems to be the place where most Carters settled or where the name began in origin. Within the past 150 to 200 years, the Carter surname has been adopted widely by the African American community, either with ethnic black and Irish mixing or taken from slavemasters by former slaves. This name is common among African Americans capable of tracing their roots back to the southern United States from the early 20th century onward.

Carter is a supercomputer installed at Purdue University in the fall of 2011 in a partnership with Intel. The high-performance computing cluster is operated by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), the university's central information technology organization. ITaP also operates clusters named Steele built in 2008, Coates built in 2009, Rossmann built in 2010, and Hansen built in the summer of 2011. Carter was the fastest campus supercomputer in the U.S. outside a national center when built. It was one of the first clusters to employ Intel's second generation Xenon E-5 "Sandy Bridge" processor and ranked 54th on the November 2011 TOP500 list, making it Purdue's first Top 100-ranked research computing system.