Definition of Carrier

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Carrier

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

One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.

That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) 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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Carrier Quotations

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
Jack Welch

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.
Jack Adams

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
Jack Adams

Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress.
Betty Hill

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.
Mark Kelly

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
Hans Hofmann

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.
Dick Schaap

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
Estelle Morris

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Marya Mannes

Carrier Translations

carrier in Latin is cursor
carrier in Spanish is portador

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