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Definition: Carrier |
CarrierNoun1. Someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier". 2. A vehicle designed 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. 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. 6. A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal. 7. A man who delivers the mail. 8. A boy who delivers newspapers. 9. A person who has some pathogen to which they are immune but who can pass it on to others. 10. : a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "carrier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Carrier \Car"ri*er\, noun. [From Carry.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. In a semiconductor, a mobile conduction electron or hole.2. In modulation of a signal, a wave suitable for being modulated as a sine wave, a recurring series of pulses, or a direct current. (references) |
Biology & Biotechnology | A person of either gender who has inherited an allele from one parent which, can produce in the progeny an autosomal recessive disease (if inherited from both parents). Source: European Union. (references) |
| A female who possesses an allele on one of her X chromosomes which results in disease in males. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Chemical Industry | Supporting material for sheet, tape, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | A legal entity that is in the business of transporting passengers or goods for hire. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The radio wave produced by a transmitter when there is no modulating signal, or any other wave, recurring series of pulses, or direct current capable of being modulated. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A wave having at least one characteristic that may be varied from a known reference value by modulation ; that wave which is intended to be modulated. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| In a modulated wave, the carrier frequency spectral component ; that part of the modulated wave that corresponds in a specified manner to the unmodulated wave, having, for example, the carrier-frequency spectral components. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The high-frequency current or voltage generated in a radio transmitter, and varied in amplitude or frequency by the signal to be transmitted. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| In a semiconductor, a mobile free conduction electron, or a mobile hole or an ion. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Environment | 1.The inert liquid or solid material in a pesticide product that serves as a delivery vehicle for the active ingredient. Carriers do not have toxic properties of their own. 2. Any material or system that can facilitate the movement of a pollutant into the body or cells. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A)(silviculture)any material, e. g. sawdust, that is intimately mixed with seed etc. to protect it in transit; b)(pest control)any substance, solid or liquid, that, when added to a chemical compound, facilitates its storage, carriage or application, by increasing the bulk. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An adjuvant, water oil, etc. , added to the spray solution, which extends the active ingredients so that they cover the plant surface evenly. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Law | Contracting party of the contract of carriage who undertakes to transport goods against consideration. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A small frame equipped with a projecting arm, called a "tail"; it is designed to be clamped on to one end of a workpiece which is to be held between centres. This tail is either straight, so that it can be caught by the pin of a driving plate, or bent, so that it can engage in a slot in a faceplate. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Device for transmitting the torque to the workpiece when turning between centres. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A rotating or sliding mounting or case. (references) |
Occupations | Delivers and sells newspapers to subscribers along prescribed route and collects money periodically: Purchases newspapers at wholesale price for resale to subscriber at retail rate. Walks or rides bicycle to deliver newspapers to subscribers. Keeps records of accounts. Contacts prospective subscribers along route to solicit subscriptions. May attend training sessions to learn selling techniques. If worker delivers newspapers, using automobile or truck, see NEWSPAPER-DELIVERY DRIVER (wholesale tr.). (references) |
Physics | The general name given to electrically charged particles such as:electrons, positrons, ions, mesons. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | An oscillation or wave, usually periodic, some characteristic of which is intended to be constrained by modulation to follow the values of a signal or of another oscillation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Shipping | Any person or entity who, in a contract of carriage, undertakes to perform or to procure the performance of carriage by rail, road, sea, air, inland waterway or by a combination of such modes. (references) |
Space | The main frequency of a radio signal generated by a transmitter prior to application of any modulation. (references) |
Transportation | The person responsible for the carriage of goods, either directly or using a third party. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An aircraft carrier is a military ship whose main function is to deploy and recover aircraft. They are generally deployed as part of a carrier battle group which allows a nation to project power great distances without having to depend on local bases for land-based aircraft.
Aircraft carriers are generally the largest ships operated by navies; a Nimitz-class carrier powered by two nuclear reactors and four steam turbines is over 1,000 feet long and costs about $4.5 billion. Only nine countries maintain aircraft carriers: France, India, Russia, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. The People's Republic of China's People's Liberation Army Navy possesses the former Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag and may have acquired the former Brazilian carrier Minas Gerais, but most naval analysts believe that they have no intention to operate either.
US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman alongside Military Sealift Command Oiler USNS John Lenthall in the Mediterranean Sea.
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USS Harry S. Truman anchors outside Portsmouth, England, while her crew
enjoy a port visit.
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Aircraft carriers have two basic configurations. The most common has a flat top deck that serves as a take-off and landing area for airplanes. A steam-powered catapult accelerates an aircraft under full throttle, from 0 to 165 mph in 2 seconds during take-off to help it reach take-off speed. To land on the carrier, incoming airplanes moving at 150 mph are equipped with tailhooks to engage one of up to four arresting cables stretched across the deck, stopping the aircraft within 320 feet after engaging a cable.
The second configuration, developed for the Royal Navy, has a 'ski-jump' at one end of the flat deck, that helps launch the aircraft. This arrangement is designed for use with VTOL or STOVL aircraft that are able to take off and land with little or no forward movement. These aircraft do not require catapult facilities or arrestor cables to be deployed across the flight deck.
In either case the ship steams at up to 30 knots (56 km/h) straight into the wind during take-off and landing operations in order to increase the apparent wind speed, thereby reducing the required speed of the plane relative to the ship.
Aircraft carriers are generally accompanied by a number of other ships, to provide protection for the relatively unwieldy carrier, to carry supplies, and to provide additional offensive capabilities. This is often termed a battle group or carrier group, sometimes a carrier battle group.
Cruisers and other ships of the early twentieth century often carried a few catapult launched seaplanes that could be recovered by crane after landing on the water. These planes were often used for reconnaissance. Many modern warships have helicopter landing capability and helicopter assault ships represent a new form of aircraft carriers.
Eugene Ely was the first pilot launch from a stationary ship in November 1910. He took off from the US Cruiser USS Birmingham at Hampton Roads, Virginia and landed nearby on Willoughby Spit after some five minutes in the air. On January 18, 1911 he became the first pilot to land on a stationary ship. He took of from the Tanforan racetrack and landed on the USS Pennsylvania achored on the San Francisco waterfront.
Commander Charles Samson became the first airman to take off from a moving warship on May 2, 1912 He took off in a Shorts S27 from the battleship HMS Hibernia while she steamed at 10.5 knots in during the Royal Fleet Review at Weymouth.
The first strike from a carrier against a land target took place on July 19, 1918. Seven Sopwith Camels launched from HMS Furious attacked the German Zeppelin base at Tondern. Several airships and balloons were destroyed.
The first ship to have a full length flat deck was HMS Argus the conversion of which was completed in September 1918.
The first ship to be designed specifically as an aircraft carrier was the second HMS Hermes which was commissioned in July 1923.
Aircraft carriers played a large role in World War II including the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Battle of Midway where 4 Japanese carriers were sunk by planes from 3 American carriers is often considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
More modern uses of aircraft carriers include the Falklands War, where the United Kingdom was able to win a conflict some 8,000 miles from home in large part due to the use of the carriers HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible. The US has also made use of carriers in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and to protect its interests in the Pacific.
In the early 21st century, worldwide aircraft carriers were capable of carrying about 1250 aircraft. US carriers accounted for over 1000 of these; the second leading country, the United Kingdom fielded over 50 planes.
List of aircraft carriers
See also: Escort aircraft carrier; amphibious assault ship
External link
- Haze Gray & Underway, World Aircraft Carrier Lists:
- http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/
- The World Aircraft Carriers Lists are comprehensive and detailed listings (and photo gallery) of all the world's aircraft carriers and seaplane tenders from 1913-2001.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aircraft carrier."
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In telecommunication, the term carrier (cxr) has the following meanings:1. A wave suitable for modulation by an information-bearing signal.
2. An unmodulated emission. Note: The carrier is usually a sinusoidal wave or a uniform or predictable series of pulses. Synonym carrier wave.
3. Sometimes employed as a synonym for a carrier system, or a synonym for a telecomunications provider company (operator).
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
A carrier, or asymptomatic carrier, is a person who has an infectious disease or genetic disorder and can transfer it to others, but who does not present any symptoms herself. Mary Mallon, known as "Typhoid Mary", was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever. The daughters of Queen Victoria, the princesses Alice and Beatrix, were asymptomatic carriers of hemophilia and managed to pass it to the royal houses of Spain and Russia, into which they married.
The Carrier are a First Nations tribe living in British Columbia, Canada. See Carrier Indians.
A carrier is a term for a transport company.
See also:
- aircraft carrier
- Willis Haviland Carrier, the inventor of air-conditioning
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Carrier."
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Carrier frequency is the fundamental frequency used in both amplitude modulation and frequency modulation i.e. it is the frequency which is modulated and is the frequency to which a receiver should be tuned in order to demodulate the information signal.In a sense, the carrier frequency "carries" the information.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Carrier frequency."
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Carrier is a town located in Garfield County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 77.Geography
Carrier is located at 36°28'36" North, 98°1'14" West (36.476654, -98.020572)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.2 km² (1.2 mi²). 3.2 km² (1.2 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 77 people, 27 households, and 24 families residing in the town. The population density is 24.4/km² (63.3/mi²). There are 30 housing units at an average density of 9.5/km² (24.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.40% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 2.60% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 27 households out of which 37.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.7% are married couples living together, 14.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 11.1% are non-families. 7.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 3.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.85 and the average family size is 3.04. In the town the population is spread out with 29.9% under the age of 18, 3.9% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 32.5% from 45 to 64, and 7.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 87.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 107.7 males. The median income for a household in the town is $40,250, and the median income for a family is $40,000. Males have a median income of $32,031 versus $16,875 for females. The per capita income for the town is $16,731. 0.0% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Carrier, Oklahoma."
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Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756 - November 16, 1794), French Revolutionist and Terrorist, was born at Yolet, a village near Aurillac in Upper Auvergne.In 1790 he was a country attorney (counsellor for the bailliage of Aurillac) and in 1792 he was chosen deputy to the National Convention. He was already known as one of the influential members of the Cordeliers club and of that of the Jacobins. After the subjugation of Flanders he was one of the commissioners nominated in the close of 1792 by the Convention, and sent into that country In the following year he took part in. establishing the Revolutionary Tribunal. He voted for the death of Louis XVI, was one of the first to call for the arrest of the duke of Orleans, and took a prominent part in the overthrow of the Girondists (on May 31).
After a mission into Normandy, Carrier was sent, early in October 1793, to Nantes, under orders from the Convention to suppress the revolt which was raging there, by the most severe measures. Nothing loth, he established a revolutionary tribunal, and formed a body of desperate men, called the Legion of Marat, for the purpose of destroying in the swiftest way the masses of prisoners heaped in the jails. The form of trial was soon discontinued, and the victims were sent to the guillotine or shot or cut down in the prisons en masse. He also had large numbers of prisoners put on board vessels with trap doors for bottoms, and sunk in the Loire.
This atrocious process, known as the Noyades of Nantes, gained for Carrier a reputation for wanton cruelty. Since in his mission to Normandy he had been very moderate, it is possible that, as he was nervous and ill when sent to Nantes, his mind had become unbalanced by the atrocities committed by the Vendean and royalist armies. Naturally, the stories told of him are not all true. He was recalled by the Committee of Public Safety on February 8, 1794, took part in the attack on Robespierre on the 9th Thermidor, but was himself brought before ,the Revolutionary Tribunal on the 11th and guillotined on the 16th of November 1794.
See Comte Fleury, Carrier a Nantes, 1793-1794 (Paris, 1897); Alfred Lallié, J. B. Carrier, représentant du Cantal a la Convention 1756-1794 d'après de nouveaux documents (Paris, 1901). These works, and the others of Lallié, are inspired by strong royalist sympathies and are not altogether to be accepted.
Reference
- This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jean-Baptiste Carrier."
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Transport, or transportation (as it is called in the United States), is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans, meaning across, and portare, meaning to carry.The field of transport has several aspects, loosely they can be divided into a triad of infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Infrastructure includes the transport networks (roads, railways, airways, canals, pipelines, etc.) that are used, as well as the nodes or terminals (such as airports, train stations, bus stations and seaports). The vehicles generally ride on the networks, such as automobiles, trains, airplanes. The operations deal with the control of the system, such as traffic signals and ramp meters, railroad switches, air traffic control, etc, as well as policies, such as how to finance the system (e.g. use of tolls or gasoline taxes in the case of highway transport).
Broadly speaking, the design of networks are the domain of civil engineering and urban planning, the design of vehicles of mechanical engineering and specialized subfields such as nautical engineering and aerospace engineering, and the operations are usually specialized, though might appropriately belong to operations research or systems engineering.
Modes of transport
Modes are combinations of networks, vehicles, and operations, and include walking, the automobile/ highway system, railroads, maritime transport (ships, waterways, and harbors), and modern aviation (airplanes, airports, and air traffic control).
Categories of transport
- (Non-human) Animal-powered transport
- Aviation
- Cable transport
- Conveyor transport
- Human-powered transport
- Hybrid transport
- Motorized road transport
- Motorized off-road transport
- Personal rapid transit (resembles an automated taxi service)
- Pipeline transport
- Rail transport
- Ship transport
- Space transport
- Proposed future transport
Transport and communications
Transport and communication are both substitutes and complements. Though it might be possible that sufficiently advanced communication could substitute for transport, one could telegraph, telephone, fax, or email a customer rather than visiting them in person, it has been found that those modes of communication in fact generate more total interactions, including interpersonal interactions. The growth in transport would be impossible without communication, which is vital for advanced transportation systems, from railroads which want to run trains in two directions on a single track, to air traffic control which requires knowing the location of aircraft in the sky. Thus, it has been found that the increase of one generally leads to more of the other.
Transport, activities and land use
There is a well-known relationship between the density of development, and types of transportation. Density is defined as area of floorspace per area of land. As a rule of thumb, densities of 1.5 or less are well suited to automobiles. Densities of six and above are well suited to trains. The range of densities from about two up to about four is not well served by conventional public or private transport. Many cities have grown into these densities, and are suffering traffic problems. Personal rapid transit might fill this gap.
Land uses support activities. Those activities are spatially separated. People need transport to go from one to the other (from home to work to shop back to home for instance). Transport is a "derived demand," in that transport is unnecessary but for the activities pursued at the ends of trips.
Good land use keeps common activities close (e.g. housing and food shopping), and places higher-density development closer to transportation lines and hubs. Poor land use concentrates activities (such as jobs) far from other destinations (such as housing and shopping).
There are economies of agglomeration. Beyond transportation some land uses are more efficient when clustered.
Transportation facilities consume land, and in cities, pavement (devoted to streets and parking) can easily exceed 20% of the total land use. An efficient transport system can reduce land waste.
Transport, energy, and the environment
Transport is a major use of energy. Most transport burns hydrocarbons. If partially burned, these create pollution. Though vehicles in the United States have been getting cleaner because of environmental regulations, this has been offset by more vehicles and more use of each vehicle.
Low-pollution fuels can reduce pollution. The most popular low-pollution fuel at this time is liquified natural gas. Hydrogen is an even lower-pollution fuel.
Another tack is to make vehicles more efficient, which reduces pollution and waste by reducing the energy use. If electricity can be gotten to the vehicle, electric motors are the most efficient of all. Another method is to generate energy using fuel cells, which are two to five tiems as efficient as the heat engines traditionally used in vehicles. A trivial, but very effective method is to streamline ground vehicles, which spend up to 75% of their energy on air-resistance. Another method is to recycle the energy normally lost to braking, but this leads to a more complex vehicle.
Other uses of the word transport
The term penal transportation refers to sending persons abroad as punishment. The term transport is also used to describe certain computer network protocols (see Transport layer).
In biology the word transport refers to the movement of molecules or ions across cell membranes or via the bloodstream. Usually this transport is mediated by proteins.
See also
- List of transport topics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Transport."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| OCO carrier | English | Oil/Coal/Ore carrier | Transportation |
| CABS | English | Carrier access billing system | Post & Telecom |
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Synonyms: CarrierSynonyms: aircraft carrier (n), attack aircraft carrier (n), bearer (n), carrier wave (n), common carrier (n), flattop (n), immune carrier (n), letter carrier (n), mail carrier (n), mailman (n), newsboy (n), postman (n), toter (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Carrier | Noun: carrier, porter, bearer, tranter, conveyer; cargador; express, expressman; stevedore, coolie; conductor, locomotive, motor. |
Ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy, ladino; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon. | |
Combatant | Man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier. flattop; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer. |
Messenger | Telegraph, telephone; cable, wire (electronic information transmission); carrier pigeon. |
Ship | Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. |
Jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane; corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation; airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft. | |
Vehicle | Noun: vehicle, conveyance, carriage, caravan, van; common carrier; wagon, waggon, wain, dray, cart, lorry. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I'm crossing parrots with carrier pigeons (Born to Dance; writing credit: Buddy G. DeSylva; Jack McGowan) Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole, and it, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable, obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) Oh, I don't know; not any more than the average aircraft carrier. (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner) You saw yourself on a carrier, or a battleship, no doubt (The Caine Mutiny; writing credit: Herman Wouk; Stanley Roberts) No, but he's a carrier. (U.S. Marshals; writing credit: John Pogue) | |
Clever | Archeologist: Someone whose carrier lies in ruins. (references; author: unknown) Cheerfulness is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-Justine (1972) Jet Carrier (1954) Aircraft Carrier (1944) Lake Carrier (1942) Bread Carrier (1928) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Carrier of Sin Nombre virus, agent of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Credit: CDC. |  | Photograph of deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), the major carrier of Sin Nombre virus, which is one of the hantaviruses that causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in humans. Credit: CDC. |
 | Endeavour on Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Credit: NASA. |  | An aircraft carrier in San Francisco Bay fills the field of view. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Aircraft carrier in San Francisco Bay. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Iron ore carrier departing Two Harbors area on Lake Superior. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Great Lakes ore carrier in lower right at Sault Ste. Marie. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Menhaden fishing - a carrier vessel taking a load of menhaden to a processing plant. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A view of filling a bulk carrier ship with phosphate at the piers at Nauru as seen from the NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | A V-2 missile on carrier being readied for launch - these missiles were used for early upper atmosphere studies. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
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| "Firehose" by Christo Pacheco Commentary: "Firehose is fed down a ladderwell on board the aircraft carrier, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower." | "Letter Bin" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "A close up of my letter carrier bin used for deliveries." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | As a carrier of Crypto, you could infect other people. (references) | |
An asymptomatic carrier state exists even among immune individuals. (references) | ||
Not every HTLV-1 seropositive carrier will become a HAM/TSP patient. (references) | ||
Business | Another of its companies, Carrier, produces air conditioners. (references) | |
A fourth domestic carrier has very recently commenced operations. (references) | ||
No American carrier to date has requested landing rights to Dubai. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | The APP is both the Government's own news agency and the official carrier of international news to the local media. (references) |
Russia | Undocumented travelers are not allowed to leave the transit zone and often are returned to the carrier on which they entered the country. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | The Broadcasting Services Act allows for one independent radio broadcaster and one independent television broadcaster, but requires them to broadcast with a government-controlled signal carrier. (references) | |
Economic History | Guyana | As a result, GT&T has switched to MCI, another U.S. carrier. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Saudia, the national carrier, is another major buyer of computers. (references) | |
Netherlands | In the leased line services area, KPN is also still the dominant carrier. (references) | |
Political Economy | HONG KONG | These restrictions limit the expansion of U.S. carrier services in the Hong Kong market. (references) |
AUSTRALIA | Federal Government ownership in telecommunications carrier Telstra has been reduced (via two public floats) to 51 percent. (references) | |
IRELAND | Under the agreement, any carrier of passengers or cargo providing North Atlantic services to Dublin airport must also provide service to Shannon airport on Ireland's west coast. (references) | |
Trade | Bolivia | Check with your air carrier for further information and the appropriate forms. (references) |
Uae | GE is pursuing a major engine contract with UAE's Int'l carrier, Emirates Airlines. (references) | |
Greece | Until recently the Greek flag carrier, Olympic Airways, had a monopoly in the provision of ground services to other airlines. (references) | |
Travel | Cyprus | Cyprus Airways is the national carrier of Cyprus. (references) |
Eq. Guinea | EGA, an Equato-Guinean carrier, also operates to Madrid. (references) | |
Eq. Guinea | One plane belongs to Ecuato Guineana de Aviacion (EGA), the official national flag carrier. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Carrier" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.20% of the time. "Carrier" is used about 1,247 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.2% | 1,237 | 6,313 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.8% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,247 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "carrier" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Carrier | Last name | 6,000 | 1,952 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Turkey | Alarko Carrier Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. | USA | Carrier Access Corpn |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Carrier, OK (town, FIPS 12200) |
Expressions using "carrier": A carrier ♦ accumulator carrier ♦ actual carrier ♦ Acyl Carrier Protein ♦ aeroplane carrier ♦ air carrier ♦ aircraft carrier ♦ airplane carrier ♦ antisubmarine carrier group ♦ armored personnel carrier ♦ armoured personnel carrier ♦ attack aircraft carrier ♦ auxiliary carrier cable ♦ B carrier ♦ ball carrier ♦ barge carrier ♦ bolt carrier ♦ bottles carrier ♦ bulk carrier ♦ car carrier ♦ carrier access billing system ♦ carrier air group ♦ carrier bag ♦ carrier cell ♦ carrier dog ♦ carrier facility assignment ♦ carrier guidance officer ♦ carrier ID ♦ carrier identification ♦ carrier identification code ♦ carrier injection ♦ carrier lifetime ♦ carrier Mills ♦ carrier of baggage ♦ carrier pigeon ♦ carrier pigeons ♦ Carrier Proteins ♦ carrier rocket ♦ carrier roller ♦ carrier scanner ♦ carrier sense multiple access ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision avoid ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision detection ♦ carrier sense multiple access/collision detection ♦ carrier sense signal ♦ Carrier shell ♦ carrier signal ♦ Carrier State ♦ carrier storage ♦ carrier striking force ♦ carrier wave ♦ charge carrier ♦ common carrier ♦ contract carrier ♦ data carrier ♦ digital carrier ♦ digital loop carrier ♦ energy carrier ♦ exalted carrier reception ♦ filler carrier ♦ flag carrier ♦ free carrier absorption ♦ germ carrier ♦ hod carrier ♦ immune carrier ♦ insurance carrier ♦ Lantern carrier ♦ LASH carrier ♦ leadless chip carrier ♦ letter carrier ♦ lighter carrier ♦ local exchange carrier ♦ luggage carrier ♦ mail carrier ♦ majority carrier ♦ majority carrier correction method ♦ modulated carrier ♦ offset carrier ♦ oil carrier ♦ optical Carrier 12 ♦ optical Carrier 3 ♦ optical Carrier 48 ♦ optical Carrier n ♦ other common carrier ♦ people carrier ♦ persistent carrier sense multiple access ♦ personnel carrier ♦ primary interexchange carrier ♦ pulse carrier ♦ radio frequency carrier ♦ reconditioned carrier demodulation ♦ reconditioned carrier reception ♦ signal carrier ♦ slide carrier ♦ spear carrier ♦ specialised carrier ♦ specialized carrier ♦ substrate carrier ♦ suicide carrier ♦ supplemental air carrier. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "carrier": carrier-bag, carrier-bags, carrier-based, carrier-borne, carrier-by-carrier, carrier-copter, carrier-current, carrier-eagle, carrier-fluid, carrier-gas, carrier-operated, carrier-pigeon, carrier-plane, carrier-receiving, carrier-sense, carrier-to-noise ratio. | |
Ending with "carrier": aircraft-carrier, common-carrier. | |
Containing "carrier": 3-Oxoacyl-(Acyl-Carrier-Protein) Synthase, common-carrier network, E-carrier system, T-carrier system. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
aircraft carrier | 1,959 | carrier furnace | 138 |
carrier | 1,697 | child carrier | 137 |
car top carrier | 984 | rooftop cargo carrier | 134 |
cargo carrier | 787 | rooftop carrier | 121 |
carrier air conditioner | 703 | long distance phone carrier | 114 |
long distance carrier | 668 | insurance carrier | 102 |
cat carrier | 655 | air carrier | 100 |
pet carrier | 650 | carrier corp | 99 |
dog carrier | 635 | cartop carrier | 91 |
r l carrier | 496 | roof top carrier | 85 |
freight carrier | 444 | canoe carrier | 83 |
baby carrier | 421 | cell phone carrier | 80 |
bike carrier | 397 | bjorn baby carrier | 79 |
carrier for car | 386 | federal motor carrier safety administration | 77 |
carrier air conditioning | 369 | carrier federal motor regulation safety | 74 |
carrier corporation | 292 | carrier hvac | 72 |
luggage carrier | 272 | designer dog carrier | 70 |
motorcycle carrier | 204 | infant carrier | 70 |
bicycle carrier | 156 | bicycle child carrier | 68 |
carrier heat pump | 155 | carrier bag | 67 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "carrier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zgarë, transportues (conveyer, tramp, transporter), postier (letter carrier, mailman, post, postboy, postman), përhapës mikrobash, pëllumb postar (carrier pigeon, messenger pigeon), mjet transporti (conveyance, transportation, vehicle), mbartës mikrobash, anije transporti (transport), agjenci transporti. (various references) | |
Arabic | حامل (holder), ملتزم النقل, ناقل الجراثيم, حاملة الطائرات, حامل المرضى, ساعي البريد (mailman, postman), عتال (bearer, porter), الموجة الحاملة, الناقلة مادة حفازة, الناقل (pencil pusher, transporter), الحمال, التيار الحامل, شركة النقل. (various references) | |
Asturian | carteru (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Bemba | uusenda ikalata (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разносвач (errand boy), радиовълна (wave), транспортен самолет, носител (bearer, circulator, holder, vehicle), превозвач, пощенска раздавателна служба, пощенски гълъб (carrier pigeon, homing pigeon, messenger pigeon), подпорка (baluster, leg, prop). (various references) | |
Cebuano | kartero (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Chinese | 载体. (various references) | |
Czech | nosiè (bearer, bracket, porter, rack), dopravní spoleènost, dopravce (conveyer, forwarder, haulier). (various references) | |
Danish | ladningsbærer (charge carrier), bærer (backer, backing, vector), bærer af sygdomsgen (contact), baereboelge (carrier wave), baerestof (carrier substance, support, vehicle), bortfragter (broker, transport operator), drager (porter), fragtfører (transport operator), bærebølge (carrier wave), ladet partikel (charged particle), vognmand (carter, driver, haulier, horse driver, road haulier, teamster, trucker), medbringer (dog, driving dog, lathe dog), mistænkt smittebærer (contact), signal-baereboelge (carrier wave, signal carrier), sund smittebærer (chronic carrier, contact, germ carrier, host), transportør (conveyor, elevating web, open-web elevator, transport operator), transportbånd (band conveyor, belt conveyor, chain and slat conveyor, conveyor, conveyor belt, grasshopper, moving-band conveyor, moving-belt conveyor), underlag (backer, backing, base, basis, clamping block, cradle, firring, furring, packing block, packing piece, roadbed, shim, shim block, substrate, support, underlay), vektor (vector, vectors), kontaktperson (contact). (various references) | |
Dutch | vervoerder (transporter), transporteur (transporter). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | quillcaraquic (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Esperanto | transportisto (transporter). (various references) | |
Faeroese | postboð (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Farsi | حامل میکرب , حامل (Bearer, Conveyer, Conveyor, Porter, Stave, Vehicle), دستگاه کاریر, برنامه (Plan, Schedule, Scheme, Syllabus). (various references) | |
Finnish | vektori (vector, vectors), varauksenkuljettaja (charge carrier, charged particle), varattu hiukkanen (charged particle), vääntiö (dog, driving dog, lathe dog), rahdinkuljettaja (transport operator), ohenne (diluent, dilutant, reducer, thinner), liikenteenharjoittaja (transport operator), kantoaine, kantoaalto (carrier wave, signal carrier), basillinkantaja, alusta (base, basis, bed, bench, chassis, coaster, easel, foundation, mat, mount, stand, tressle, workbench). (various references) | |
French | transporteur (carrier substance, common carrier), porteur (red cap). (various references) | |
Frisian | postrinder (mail carrier, postman). (various references) | |
German | Träger (beam, bearer, braces, cantilever, carriers, girder, holder, joist, litter, porter, porters, representative, shoulder strap, sluggishly, sponsor, strap, strecher, support, supporter, supporters, upholder, vector, vehicle, wearer, winner), spediteur (forwarder, forwarding agent, furniture remover, haulier, remover, road haulier, shipper), Gepäckträger (luggage carrier, luggage rack, porter, rack, railway porter). (various references) | |
Greek | υλικό στήριξης (backer, backing), φορτισμένο σωματίδιο (charged particle), φορεύς (diluent, dilutant), φορέας (bearer), φορέας μεταφοράς (transport operator), φορέασ (bearer), φερέσυχνο (carrier wave), φέρουσα (carrier wave), αραιωτικόν (diluent, dilutant), φέρον κύμα (carrier wave), κώδωνας καθοδήγησης (dog, driving dog, lathe dog), μεταφορική τράπεζα (chain and slat conveyor, platform, platform canvas), μεταφορικό όχημα (buggy, truck), μεταφορέας (chain and slat conveyor, conveyor, transport operator), μεταφορέασ (conveyer, courier, remover, transporter), μικροβιοφορέας (contact), σχάρα αποσκευών, κομιστήσ (bearer), φέρουσα σήματος (carrier wave, signal carrier). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוביל (conductor, conveyor, funnel, guide, leading), מעביר (conductor, conveyer, transferor, transmitter), חברת הובלה (freight company), סבל (bearer, lumper, porter, redcap), נושאת מטוסים (aircraft carrier, flattop). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hordozó (bearer, bearing, delivery). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengangkut (transporter), alat pengangkut. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | titiqaliriji (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Italian | vettore (vector, wearer), trasportatore (conveyor, transporter), portatore (bearer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 運輸業者 , 運送人 , 運送業者 (forwarding agent), 運搬人 (conveyor), 人足 (coolie, laborer, pedestrian traffic), 人夫 (coolie, labourer), 人夫 (coolie, labourer), 新聞配達 (new, newspaperboy), 担ぎ , 担体 (vector), 担い手 (a bearer, person in charge), 媒介物 (agency, medium, vehicle), キャビネ判 (cabbage, cabin, cabinet size, camel, camisole, capital gain, capital letter, capital loss, capitalism, captain, CAPTAIN System, caption, capture, caramel, caravan, caraway, carburetor, career, career government employee, career woman, carry, character, Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information System, character display, character in a manga or anime, light mountain-climbing shoes), 保菌者 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たんたい (simple substance, vector), しんぶんはいたつ (new, newspaperboy), うんそうぎょうしゃ (forwarding agent), うんそうにん, うんぱんにん (conveyor), うんゆぎょうしゃ, ばいかいぶつ (agency, medium, vehicle), ほきんしゃ, にないて (a bearer, person in charge), にんそく (coolie, laborer), にんぷ (coolie, labourer, pregnant woman), かつぎ, キャリアー . (various references) | |
Korean | 운반대. (various references) | |
Macedonian | raznesuvach na posta (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Manx | mean (average, body, body of church, centre, interior, nerve centre), fer carriads, erreyder (bearer, porter). (various references) | |
Maori | kai amo. (various references) | |
Papiamen | transportadó (transporter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arriercay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | veículo (megilp, vehicle), suporte (backing, base, basis, brace, bracing, bracket, buttress, column, crutch, foot, girder, hanger, hold, holder, holdfast, lay-over, leg, pillow, pillow-block, post, prop, ribbing, stake, stanchion, stand, stay, stock, stool, supporter, tie-plate), portador (aeroplane carrier, conveyer). (various references) | |
Provencal | postièra (mail carrier), postièr (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Romanian | comisionar (broker, commissionnaire, consignee, errand boy, middleman, outside porter, page, salesman), cãruţaş (Carman, Carter, cartman, drayman, teamster), cãrãuş (Carter, cartman, Waggoner), purtãtor de microbi, purtãtor (bearer, carrying), portbagaj (luggage carrier, rack, trunk), portavion (flat-top), hamal (dock laborer, dock labourer, drudge, lader, porter, red cap). (various references) | |
Russian | транспортер (conveyer, transporter), ведущий механизм, носитель (media, vector), носильщик (baggage-man, porter, redcap, skycap, train porter), несущий элемент, авианосец (aerocarrier, aeroplane carrier, aircraft carrier, flattop), бациллоноситель (vector), багажник (boot), почтальон (letter carrier, letter-carrier, mailman, postboy, postman), переносчик (vector). (various references) | |
Samoan | pule (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Scottish | post (letter carrier, pillar, post, va. tramp with the feet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prevoznik (carter, operator, shipper, trucker, truckman), prenosilac (transferor), nosilac (bearer, wearer), nosač (atlas, bellboy, bellhop, cantilever, girder, porter, redcap, tranter, truss). (various references) | |
Spanish | portador (bearer, conveyor, payee), transportista (dispatcher, hauler, haulier, shipper). (various references) | |
Swedish | hållare (holder, holders, keeper), bärvåg (carrier wave), bärare (bearer, exponent, porter, redcap, sky-cap). (various references) | |
Turkish | ulak (courier, despatch rider, dispatch rider, messenger, runner, summoner), taşıyıcı (bearer, contact, conveyer, conveyor, germ carrier, haulier, mover, transporter, vector, vehicle), portbagaj, portör (contact, germ carrier, vector), nakliyeci (Carman, carrying agent, goods agent, haulier, mover, remover, shipper, transporter), nakliye şirketi (express, express company, freight company, transportation company), kurye (courier, messenger, post, summoner), kızak (chock, coaster, cradle, drag, gantry, gauntry, Shipway, skid, sled, sledge, slide, slipway, stock, toboggan), hamal (coolie, porter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | транспортне судно, транспортне агенство, контейнер (cask, casket, container, package), візник (cab, cab driver, cabby, cabman, charioteer, driver, wainer), носильник (baggage man, porter, redcap), авіаносець (flat-top), листоноша (mailman, post, postboy, postman), багажник (trunk), піднощик, посильний (affordable, bell boy, bell-hop, commissionaire, courier, runner), перевізник (conveyer, conveyor, ferryman, sandpiper). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật đỡ (held, hold), phần tử mang, người mang (bearer, wearer), người đưa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ila. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cursor, gerulae, vector. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "carrier": carriers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "carrier": ballcarrier, noncarrier, scarrier, supercarrier. (additional references) | |
Words containing "carrier": ballcarriers, noncarriers, supercarriers. (additional references) | |
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"Carrier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arrier, cariar, carie, carier, Carliari, Carrard, Carraro, carrea, carrear, carree, carreer, carrer, Carrere, carriar, Carribe, carrrier, cartier, Cartiera, cartiere, Cartieri, caruer, carvier, Caryer, cerifera, charrier, Clarriher, Clarriker, Crarae, currior, Karriem, octarsier. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "carrier" (pronounced ka"rēer) |
| 4 | -a" r ē er | barrier, Charrier. |
| 3 | -r ē er | angrier, anterior, couturier, exterior, farrier, harrier, hungrier, inferior, interior, merrier, scarier, superior, terrier, ulterior, warrior. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-r-r-r" | |
-1 letter: racier. | |
-2 letters: airer, areic, carer, ceria, crier, erica, racer, rarer, ricer. | |
-3 letters: acre, care, carr, cire, race, rare, rear, rice. | |
-4 letters: ace, air, arc, are, car, ear, era, err, ice, ire, rec, rei, ria. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, ar, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-r-r-r" | |
+1 letter: carriers, charrier, ricercar, scarrier. | |
+2 letters: carrotier, recarried, recarries, ricercare, ricercari, ricercars, trierarch. | |
+3 letters: certiorari, noncarrier, recarrying, trierarchs, trierarchy. | |
+4 letters: ballcarrier, certioraris, charbroiler, cranberries, firecracker, intercrater, microreader, noncarriers, radiotracer, transcriber. | |
+5 letters: ballcarriers, charbroilers, chirographer, coralberries, firecrackers, microreaders, prevaricator, radiotracers, rechartering, reciprocator, refractories, refractorily, reprographic, supercarrier, transcribers, trierarchies. | |
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