carrier

名词 n.
/ˈkæɹi.ə/|/ˈkaɹɪjə/    /ˈkæɹi.ə/|/ˈkæɹi.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person or object that carries someone or something else.
    — armored personnel carrier
  2. A person or object that carries someone or something else.; Ellipsis of aircraft carrier. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — 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.
  3. A person or object that carries someone or something else.; Ellipsis of aircraft carrier.; A starship designed to carry starfighters broadly
    — And each was hideously powerful: an attack carrier could destroy a world, a force of cruisers and spinship destroyers could destroy a sun.
  4. A person or object that carries someone or something else.; Ellipsis of carrier bag. UK,abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  5. A carrier pigeon.
  6. A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
    — The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.
  7. A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
  8. A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
  9. 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.”
  10. That which drives or carries.; A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
  11. That which drives or carries.; A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
  12. 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.
  13. That which drives or carries.; A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
  14. That which drives or carries.; Part of a differential gear assembly that holds gears and their bearings. especially
  15. A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
  16. A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
  17. A charge carrier.
  18. A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.
    — Linseed oil is often used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting.

词形变化

carriers plural

词源

From Middle English cariere, partly from carien + -ere, after Anglo-Norman carier, cariour, and partly directly from Anglo-Norman. By surface analysis, carry + -er.
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