Cabin vs Carrier - What's the difference?
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(lb) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
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*1994 , Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill
*:And that was how long we stayed in the cabin , pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.
(lb) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
A compartment on land, usually comprised of logs.
A private room on a ship.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin , which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
The passenger area of an airplane.
The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
A signal box.
A small room; an enclosed place.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.
To place in a cabin.
(obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
* Shakespeare
A person or object that carries someone or something else.
* Francis Bacon
A carrier pigeon, a newspaperese term (misnomer) for a homing pigeon, racing pigeon, racing homer, homer.
An Old English carrier pigeon or Old English carrier (the "King of the Doos").
A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
* Jonathan Swift
A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease.
A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
An inert material added to an active ingredient to aid in the application and/or the effectiveness of active ingredient.
A certified airline.
* 2013 Dec. 22, Jad Mouawad and Martha C. White, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/business/on-jammed-jets-sardines-turn-on-one-another.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 23 December 2013):
*: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.”
(engineering) That which drives or carries.
# A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
# A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
# A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
As a noun cabin
is (lb) a small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.As a verb cabin
is to place in a cabin.As a proper noun carrier is
a northern athabaskan language spoken in canada sometimes considered to be three separate languages; southern carrier, northern carrier and central carrier.cabin
English
(wikipedia cabin)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* cell * chamber * hut * pod * shack * shedAntonyms
* hall * palace * villaSee also
* cabanaVerb
(en verb)- I'll make you cabin in a cave.
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English
(English Carrier) (Carrier Pigeon) (Homing Pigeon)Noun
(en noun)- aircraft carrier
- armored personnel carrier
- The air which is but a carrier of the sounds.
- The roads are crowded with carriers , laden with rich manufactures.