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carrier
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Word definitions for carrier in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carrier \Car"ri*er\, n. [From Carry .] One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds. --Bacon. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Carrier is a solitaire game from Victory Games depicting the fighting in the Solomon Islands during World War II between Allied and Japanese forces. The game was designed by Jon Southard and uses a solitaire system similar to his earlier game Tokyo Express ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., agent noun from carry (v.). Meaning "person or animal that carries and disseminates infection without suffering obvious disease" is from 1899; genetic sense is 1933. As a short form of aircraft carrier it dates from 1917. Carrier pigeon is from ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a carrier bag (= for carrying shopping, usually made of plastic ) ▪ The supermarket no longer gives free carrier bags. aircraft carrier carrier bag carrier pigeon mail carrier people carrier personnel carrier troop carrier ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person or object that carry someone or something else. 2 A carrier pigeon, a journalese term (misnomer) for a homing pigeon, racing pigeon, racing homer, homer. 3 An Old English carrier pigeon or Old English carrier (the "King of the Doos"). 4 A ...
Usage examples of carrier.
The Lupus had followed down their Triumph-class aerodyne, the Wulfstag, waiting until the massive troop carrier ground to a halt using Highlake Basin as a modified landing field.
His report, and seeing the aerodyne carrier, reminded him of more unfinished business.
On a terse command from their carrier, they went to afterburner and rocketed southwest toward the Backfires.
He never brought the carrier within range, except at night, when he knew the Argentinian Air Force did not fly.
The Russians, unable to get their own primitive aircraft carriers under way due to engineering problems and lack of maintenance, had suggested this somewhat lopsided mission that we were on now--the Jefferson would visit the port of Arkhangelsk, and in exchange, the Russians would host a professional conference aimed at both Russian and American fighter pilots.
The college researchers had also learned that each fusion left scar tissue on the ayin complex deep in her brain, where her epsilon carrier arose.
Better you give her to the lowest Egyptian offal carrier than to that sheep-rutting Bactrian nephew of yours.
In particular, the Saudis now forbid us to fly strike missions from their air bases, insisting that they be launched instead from Kuwait, Bahrain, or carriers in the Gulf.
American aircraft carrier battle group was entering the Gulf of Thailand, possibly in support of the Bangkok regime.
Jap bastards tried to crash their planes into carriers and battlewagons all at once?
Also by Keith Douglass THE CARRIER SERIES: CARRIER Viper Strike Armageddon Mode Flame-Out Maelstrom Countdown Afterburn Alpha Strike Arctic Fire Arsenal THE SEAL TEAM SEVEN SERIES: SEAL Team Seven Specter Nucflash Direct Action Firestorm Battleground To my good friend, writing critic, and advisor in all things Navy, Cyndy Mobley.
The odds were now ten or eleven carriers to three, ten combat-ready battleships to none, and nobody knew where those heavy enemy forces were.
The intelligence is that a mess of big transports have already left the Jap home islands, escorted by battleships, carriers, cruisers, and Christ knows what else, for an invasion of Luzon in force.
The Empire lay open now to a Japanese navy -that included ten battleships and six major aircraft carriers, with only a much-weakened American navy at its back to worry about.
At least eight carriers, perhaps ten battleships, only God could know how many cruisers, destroyers, submarines!