Crossword clues for carrier
carrier
- Large naval ship
- Tray, cold, arrives? That is right
- Fleet member
- Verizon or AT&T
- Post-office worker
- Typhoid Mary, for one
- Flight deck setting
- Craft for Navy planes
- Airline, for instance
- ___ pigeon
- Televise cunning US chef's big vessel
- Vehicle for, eg, large family
- Replace pro? Ire develops in vehicle
- Woman runs business, one conveying messages by air
- Bird messenger
- Aircraft ___
- A man who delivers the mail
- For carrying luggage or skis or the like
- A rack attached to a vehicle
- A boy who delivers newspapers
- A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
- A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
- An inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction
- A vehicle designed to carry something
- Someone whose employment involves carrying something
- A person who has some pathogen to which they are immune but who can pass it on to others
- Flattop
- Modem requirement
- Coral Sea is one
- Large warship
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carrier \Car"ri*er\, n. [From Carry.]
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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.
The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.
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(Mach.) That which drives or carries; as:
A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog.
A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
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A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
Carrier pigeon (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home.
Carrier shell (Zo["o]l.), a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as almost to conceal it.
Common carrier (Law.) See under Common, a.
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 1640s.
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 person or company in the business of shipping freight. 5 A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information. 6 A mobile network operator; wireless carrier. 7 A certified airline. 8 (context engineering English) That which drives or carry. 9 # A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog. 10 # A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. 11 # A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. 12 (cx chemistry English) A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction. 13 (cx genetics English) An organism that has inherited a genetic trait or mutation, but displays no symptoms. 14 A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease.
WordNet
n. someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier" [syn: bearer, toter]
a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings [syn: aircraft carrier, flattop, attack aircraft carrier]
an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction
a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages [syn: common carrier]
a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal [syn: carrier wave]
a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier]
a boy who delivers newspapers [syn: newsboy]
a person who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others [syn: immune carrier]
a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
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Housing Units (2000): 30
Land area (2000): 1.216976 sq. miles (3.151954 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.216976 sq. miles (3.151954 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12200
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.476654 N, 98.020572 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73727
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Carrier may refer to:
is a survival horror video game for the Dreamcast, notable in part for being fully 3D - then still a rarity for survival horror games, which mostly displayed 3D characters over pre-rendered backgrounds. In Carrier, players assume the separate roles of an investigation team that was split up from a surprise attack.
A cancelled sequel for the PlayStation 2 titled Carrier: The Next Mutation was once planned for release.
Carrier is a PBS documentary television series about the six-month deployment of the United States Navy aircraft carrier in 2005 from the United States to the Middle East and back. There are ten Carrier episodes, and the series is supplemented by a 90-minute companion documentary film called Another Day in Paradise.
Carrier is the fifth studio album by indie folk band The Dodos. It was released in August 2013 under Polyvinyl Record Co.
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. The player is in command of the Allied Task Force, mostly American, but occasionally having British Commonwealth elements, fighting to defeat the Japanese Navy. The game also has a reference to the 1980 movie The Final Countdown, where the and its air group can fight as a less serious note.
Carrier is a surname, and may refer to:
- Corey Carrier (born 1980), American child actor
- Darel Carrier (born 1940), American professional basketball player
- George F. Carrier (1918-2002), American mathematician and Professor Emeritus at Harvard University
- Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756-1794), French Revolutionary
- Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse (1824-1887), French sculptor
- Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (1848–1913), French painter and sculptor
- Mark Carrier (wide receiver) (born 1965), American football player
- Mark Carrier (safety) (born 1968), American football player
- Richard Carrier (born 1969), American historian and philosopher
- Robert Carrier (chef) (1923–2006), American chef, restaurateur and cookery writer
- Robert Carrier (politician) (born 1941), Canadian politician
- Roch Carrier (born 1937), Canadian novelist and author
- Scott Carrier (born 1957), American author and radio producer
- Willis Carrier (1876-1950), American inventor of air-conditioning
- Jerry Carrier (born 1948), American author
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!