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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
carter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Carriage of wood, coal and iron also created work for carters and watermen.
▪ His father, a builder and carrier, was one of the first carters to stable his horses in favour of steam traction lorries.
▪ Jimmy carters relationship with and feelings towards the Shah were, it must be said ambiguous.
▪ John Speddy; and Isaac Irving are found amongst the carters.
▪ New social groups, clerks, carters, traders, teachers and notaries, challenged their authority.
▪ Sanson had to employ assistants and carters, a blacksmith, a cook and servants.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.

carter

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
carter

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

Wiktionary
carter

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

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Gazetteer
Carter, WY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Wyoming
Population (2000): 8
Housing Units (2000): 6
Land area (2000): 3.056841 sq. miles (7.917182 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.056841 sq. miles (7.917182 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13005
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 41.442062 N, 110.432574 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Carter, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000): 62
Housing Units (2000): 34
Land area (2000): 2.905797 sq. miles (7.525979 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003952 sq. miles (0.010236 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.909749 sq. miles (7.536215 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12625
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 47.781252 N, 110.955800 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59420
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Carter, MT
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Carter, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 254
Housing Units (2000): 136
Land area (2000): 0.464433 sq. miles (1.202876 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.464433 sq. miles (1.202876 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12300
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.218187 N, 99.505054 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73627
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Carter, OK
Carter
Carter -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000): 26889
Housing Units (2000): 11534
Land area (2000): 410.599156 sq. miles (1063.446887 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.546505 sq. miles (4.005430 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 412.145661 sq. miles (1067.452317 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.307846 N, 83.049318 W
Headwords:
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Carter, KY
Carter County
Carter County, KY
Carter -- U.S. County in Montana
Population (2000): 1360
Housing Units (2000): 811
Land area (2000): 3339.566538 sq. miles (8649.437259 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 8.728321 sq. miles (22.606246 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3348.294859 sq. miles (8672.043505 sq. km)
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 45.556276 N, 104.481226 W
Headwords:
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Carter, MT
Carter County
Carter County, MT
Carter -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 5941
Housing Units (2000): 3028
Land area (2000): 507.583083 sq. miles (1314.634094 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.439667 sq. miles (3.728720 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 509.022750 sq. miles (1318.362814 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.947814 N, 90.936667 W
Headwords:
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Carter, MO
Carter County
Carter County, MO
Carter -- U.S. County in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 45621
Housing Units (2000): 20577
Land area (2000): 823.790732 sq. miles (2133.608110 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 9.925211 sq. miles (25.706177 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 833.715943 sq. miles (2159.314287 sq. km)
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.214754 N, 97.220100 W
Headwords:
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Carter, OK
Carter County
Carter County, OK
Carter -- U.S. County in Tennessee
Population (2000): 56742
Housing Units (2000): 25920
Land area (2000): 341.045608 sq. miles (883.304032 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.570319 sq. miles (17.017048 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 347.615927 sq. miles (900.321080 sq. km)
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 36.310350 N, 82.187840 W
Headwords:
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Carter, TN
Carter County
Carter County, TN
Wikipedia
Carter

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 (Berkshire cricketer)

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

Carter (real estate)

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

Carter (artist)

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 (name)

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 (supercomputer)

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.

Usage examples of "carter".

Within three hours, John Carter was standing on the roof of the Royal Airdrome giving last-minute instructions to a fleet of twenty-four fast, one-man scouts.

All Carter and Bogdanovich did was to apply that rationale to the astrogation charts.

Denise, in Bankside Cottage, the two-bedroomed house where Alison Carter was born on a rainy night in 1950.

In the top of the ninth Caleb Jones got on base with a walk and was moved over to second two batters later when Ted Carter reached on an error by the third baseman.

Onward--onward--through the screaming, cackling, and blackly populous gulfs--and then from some dim blessed distance there came an image and a thought to Randolph Carter the doomed.

From the rear of one great temple stretched a low black passage which Carter followed far into the rock with a torch till he came to a lightless domed hall of vast proportions, whose vaultings were covered with demoniac carvings and in whose centre yawned a foul and bottomless well like that in the hideous monastery of Leng where broods alone the High-Priest Not To Be Described.

Baudelaire, Poe, Dream-Shakespeare, Hollywood, panto, fairy tale: Carter wears her influences openly, for she is their deconstructionist, their saboteur.

Carter did not wish to meet a Dhole, so listened intently for any sound in the unknown depths of bones about him.

On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale, a self contained, insular community that distrusts the outside world.

The latest manhunt centres round Alison Carter, who vanished from the remote Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale on Wednesday.

The text beneath read: Alison Carter has been missing from her home in Scardale village, Derbyshire, since half past four on Wednesday 13th December.

And yet he had resigned from Derbyshire Police two years after the Alison Carter case was closed and become resident warden at a bird sanctuary in Northumberland.

Then Carter did a wicked thing, offering his guileless host so many draughts of the moon-wine which the Zoogs had given him that the old man became irresponsibly talkative.

Carter did a wicked thing, offering his guileless host so many draughts of the moon-wine which the Zoogs had given him that the old man became irresponsibly talkative.

They handed him a copy of the Ethics in Government Act, which the previous year Congress had passed and President Carter had signed into law.