carrier
Substantivhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈkaɹɪjə//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈkæɹi.ɚ//
- Australien//ˈkæɹi.ə//
- Schottland//ˈkaɾe.əɾ//
- //ˈkɛɹi.ɚ//
A person or object that carries someone or something else.
Substantiv
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A person or object that carries someone or something else.
armored personnel carrier
The air which is but […] a carrier of the sounds.
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A person or object that carries someone or something else. Ellipsis of aircraft carrier. A starship designed to carry starfighters
And each was hideously powerful: an attack carrier could destroy a world, a force of cruisers and spinship destroyers could destroy a sun.
The first carrier completely ignored us, sir! Blew through the Malta’s debris field and headed straight for Earth!
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A carrier pigeon.
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A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.
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A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
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A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
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A certified airline.
Southwest, the nation’s largest domestic carrier, is installing seats with less cushion and thinner materials — a svelte model known in the business as “slim-line.”
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That which drives or carries. A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
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That which drives or carries. A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
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That which drives or carries. A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
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That which drives or carries. A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
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That which drives or carries. Part of a differential gear assembly that holds gears and their bearings.
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A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
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A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
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A charge carrier.
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A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.
Linseed oil is often used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting.
inert carrier gas
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Variante von aircraft carrierA person or object that carries someone or something else. Ellipsis of aircraft carrier.
Two weeks later, I reported to Pensacola, Florida, for duty aboard CV-48, the USS Saipan, a boxy old carrier the Navy retired from fleet duty and reassigned for use in training.
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Variante von carrier bagA person or object that carries someone or something else. Ellipsis of carrier bag.
Herkunft
From Middle English cariere, partly from carien + -ere, after Anglo-Norman carier, cariour, and partly directly from Anglo-Norman. By surface analysis, carry + -er.
Formen
- Plural
- carriers
carrier · A person or object that carries someone or something else.
Carrier · A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes…Carrington · A placename: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan…Carroll · A surname from Irish derived from the Irish Ó Cearbhaill.