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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
carrier
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
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
armoured
▪ I stumbled off to be sick behind an armoured personnel carrier as he started on Marius.
▪ Near the residential apartments he had seen an exploded armoured carrier, and more dead soldiers.
▪ He was handcuffed to another prisoner and placed in an army, armoured personnel carrier.
▪ Since the civil disobedience began, the palace had also been surrounded by armoured carriers and remote crowd-control vehicles.
▪ His car was mud-splattered, parked amongst the jeeps and armoured personnel carriers, a hundred yards from the helicopter pad.
▪ The army also lost 2,000 of its 2,900 armoured personnel carriers.
big
▪ Alameda can accommodate three big nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, against just one in Everett.
▪ And another bankruptcy, involving Braniff Airlines, reminded everyone of the stranglehold the Big Eight carriers have over the domestic market.
international
▪ The network will give access to both national and international carriers.
▪ Indosat, the international phone carrier, rose 425 rupiah to 8975 with trading of 788, 500 shares.
large
▪ The chief need of large shippers and carriers is' to process information for the flow of goods.
▪ Verio acquired NorthWestNet in March 1997 and has since built one of the country's largest business Internet carriers.
▪ She waved, but Dawn didn't see her, being too engrossed in stuffing the flowers into a large carrier bag.
▪ Even a large carrier, he warned, could be quickly and effectively disabled by a few bomb hits.
▪ There's also a new large people-carrier derivative called the Vaneo.
▪ Near where he was standing, some one had left a large carrier bag full of clothes.
▪ The company will be the largest freight carrier to be based at the Speke airport.
▪ That change should occur within about three years for large carriers, while small companies will be free of rate regulation immediately.
local
▪ Communication with Hull was maintained by horse-drawn vehicles, daily local carriers taking anything and everything needed by the villagers.
mail
▪ All told, I counted about 200 catalogs that my overburdened mail carrier had to tote and deliver during the Christmas season.
▪ But be assured, most people carry more writing-related baggage than a mail carrier does letters.
▪ When she finds the right neighborhood, she interviews neighbors and mail carriers to verify the addresses.
major
▪ A total of 84 airlines have now responded, including many of the major carriers.
▪ In 1995, the major carriers rebounded from years of losses by cutting costs and boosting fares.
▪ Photography was a major carrier and shaper of modernism.
national
▪ The network will give access to both national and international carriers.
regional
▪ Comair, a Cincinnati-based regional air carrier, was the top gainer in the index.
▪ That could go a long way toward offsetting public perception that regional carriers are less safe.
▪ Comair, a regional carrier in the Midwest and Florida, said the plane was Flight 3272.
small
▪ Growing competition sent smaller carriers, many of them start-ups after deregulation, to the wall.
▪ Becky, holding a small carrier bag from a music shop, came in.
▪ It is also warning more cuts could come if the economy deteriorates further. Small startup carriers are also finding business challenging.
▪ After all, how can you square downsizing with acquiring a smaller carrier with a similar cost base?
■ NOUN
air
▪ As do their land and sea counterparts, air carriers delegate the power to issue waybills to various types of agents.
▪ Comair, a Cincinnati-based regional air carrier, was the top gainer in the index.
▪ The air carrier had returned him as quickly as possible.
aircraft
▪ As I came up out of the trough, the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier.
▪ The Navy gave them rides on an aircraft carrier.
▪ In the 1960s, the Soviet Union built the Sovetskaya Rossiya, a whaler the size of an aircraft carrier.
▪ This room was gigantic: like the hangar deck of an aircraft carrier.
▪ Consider a film clip showing an aircraft carrier at sea.
▪ He flew to Hatfield and touched-down successfully balancing the elevator against the very powerful airbrakes, as previously used on aircraft carriers.
▪ In that post he achieved a military first, using an aircraft carrier to transport Army helicopters and Special Forces troops.
bag
▪ You will leave it in a carrier bag at a certain place and time.
▪ Near where he was standing, some one had left a large carrier bag full of clothes.
▪ Left: The Diamond kite, using decoration from a plastic carrier bag.
▪ What were they doing in a carrier bag?
▪ It attracted everyone from stunt flying professionals to kids with an old plastic carrier bag and a piece of string.
▪ George frowned as he put his mask neatly in the brown carrier bag before driving home.
▪ Ten days ago a police bullet had hit the explosive which Terry Place had hidden in a carrier bag in the tunnel.
▪ So after finding the hairs they looked at the carrier bag more closely?
flag
▪ He opposed the privatisations, yet they are now the two greatest flag carriers in the Northern Ireland economy.
▪ With time he began to settle and his school work improved: Yoash became an ardent flag carrier for Habonim.
group
▪ In Lingayen Gulf in 1944, their carrier groups had fought next to each other, and that had cemented it.
insurance
▪ Stein and the other owners still wait for a damage settlement from their insurance carrier, State Farm Insurance Co.
▪ But if she can not afford a potential loss, she should get coverage from an insurance carrier.
▪ Morrill agreed to a $ 12 million settlement in the Western case, most of which was paid by its insurance carrier.
personnel
▪ I stumbled off to be sick behind an armoured personnel carrier as he started on Marius.
▪ A day after the meeting, 20 tanks and 15 armored personnel carriers were sent through the streets of Sincan.
▪ There were three malai personnel carriers in the centre of the Praça and a company of troops at one end.
▪ The tracks are 28-ton personnel carriers that can carry two dozen Marines, including the three-man crew.
▪ His car was mud-splattered, parked amongst the jeeps and armoured personnel carriers, a hundred yards from the helicopter pad.
▪ About 200 yards from his mansion, in an old barn, he even kept an armored personnel carrier.
▪ Slowed by heavy rains, the convoy was shielded by helicopter gunships and armoured personnel carriers.
▪ Later it wants to follow up with the heavy stuff: tanks, helicopters, anti-tank weapons and armored personnel carriers.
pigeon
▪ The first correct entry to be drawn at random will be notified by phone and the Guitarist carrier pigeon will do the rest.
▪ They found the empty dovecotes where he kept his carrier pigeons, his way of beating the phone taps.
▪ During the war, peregrines were declared a pest because they used to attack carrier pigeons and prevent messages reaching their destination.
▪ The tower provided shore accommodation for keepers and kept in communication with the lighthouse by means of flagstaff signals and carrier pigeons.
plastic
▪ Left: The Diamond kite, using decoration from a plastic carrier bag.
▪ It attracted everyone from stunt flying professionals to kids with an old plastic carrier bag and a piece of string.
▪ She parked the car and hoisted the plastic carriers from the boot, perching the flat, be-ribboned pâtisserie box on top.
▪ After collecting the award Reeves slipped it into a plastic carrier bag and shortly after dropped it.
▪ The four sample bottles of water stood in their plastic carrier on my roomette floor.
▪ To waste them cleaning out a drawer of plastic carrier bags instead of scrambling up lofty pinnacles is something you may regret.
troop
▪ A couple worked on the engine of a troop carrier.
▪ A single Marine Corps troop carrier costs more than one billion.
■ VERB
armored
▪ Three men died in a skirmish with armored personnel carriers.
▪ A day after the meeting, 20 tanks and 15 armored personnel carriers were sent through the streets of Sincan.
▪ The maneuvers came after days of ominous-looking deployments around the residence by police helicopters, armored personnel carriers and commandos.
▪ About 200 yards from his mansion, in an old barn, he even kept an armored personnel carrier.
▪ Their protection consisted of three heavily armored tanks and an armored personnel carrier.
▪ Beyond them a phalanx of armored personnel carriers was lined up three abreast, their heavy guns pointed toward our bank.
▪ Later it wants to follow up with the heavy stuff: tanks, helicopters, anti-tank weapons and armored personnel carriers.
send
▪ The kite can be sent up with a carrier attached.
▪ Alternatively, instruments can be sent and returned by carrier if you live too far away to visit personally.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a carrier with routes to the eastern U.S.
▪ a newspaper carrier
▪ We give a gift to the letter carrier at Christmas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Carrie had Nick's case as well as her own and a carrier bag with a broken string handle.
▪ Fuchida ordered his remaining 324 aircraft back to the waiting carriers but stayed as long as he could over the target.
▪ So the last hope of hitting the enemy carriers was reluctantly abandoned.
▪ Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carrier

Carrier \Car"ri*er\, n. [From Carry.]

  1. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

    The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds.
    --Bacon.

  2. 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.
    --Swift.

  3. (Mach.) That which drives or carries; as:

    1. A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog.

    2. A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.

    3. 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
carrier

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
carrier

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
carrier
  1. n. someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier" [syn: bearer, toter]

  2. a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"

  3. a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings [syn: aircraft carrier, flattop, attack aircraft carrier]

  4. 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

  5. a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages [syn: common carrier]

  6. a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal [syn: carrier wave]

  7. a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier]

  8. a boy who delivers newspapers [syn: newsboy]

  9. a person who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others [syn: immune carrier]

  10. a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like

Gazetteer
Carrier, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 77
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
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Carrier, OK
Carrier
Wikipedia
Carrier

Carrier may refer to:

Carrier (video game)

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 (documentary)

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 (album)

Carrier is the fifth studio album by indie folk band The Dodos. It was released in August 2013 under Polyvinyl Record Co.

Carrier (game)

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 (surname)

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!