Carrier vs Career - What's the difference?
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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.
One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
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General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
(archaic) speed
* Wilkins
* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
A jouster's path during a joust.
* 1819 :
(obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
* 1603 , John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas , I.48:
(falconry) The flight of a hawk.
(obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 16, author=Ben Dirs, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan, work=BBC Sport
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As nouns the difference between carrier and career
is that carrier is a person or object that carries someone or something else while career is one's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.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.As a verb career is
to move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.carrier
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.
Usage notes
* The term carrier pigeon'' is often used, especially in newspaper and magazine articles, for a homing pigeon or racing pigeon that carries messages. Many pigeon fanciers (particularly homer men]] and homer women) consider this to be a misnomer because the term is outdated and originally referred to the ancestors of present-day [[Old English carrier, Old English carriers. These "carrier pigeons" were formerly used to carry messages before the modern homing pigeon was developed in the 1800s (initially in Belgium and Britain), but is today strictly an exhibition pigeon or show pigeon that has mostly lost its strong homing instinct. The "carrier pigeon" was also one of the breeds used to develop the modern homing pigeon and therefore does have some "carrier blood" in it.The Carrier, or certainly the Horseman, was the first breed used in England for message-bearing purposes. The name, “Carrier Pigeon,” is still used today erroneously by many writers, especially in newspapers and periodicals, to describe the true Racing Homer. The Carrier today has been developed into a show bird alone, its homing propensities having long since ceased to be developed. — Wendell M. Levi, ''The Pigeon, 1941 (Renewed 1968), 1946, 1957, and 1963; p57.Derived terms
* aircraft carrier * armored personnel carrier, armoured personnel carrier * banner carrier * carrier bag * carrier set * Old English Carrier pigeon, Old English Carrier, English Carrier pigeon, English Carrier, Carrier pigeon, Carrier * carrier pigeon (a misnomer for the homing pigeon, racing pigeon, homer) * carrier wave * charge carrier * common carrier * flag carrier * people carrierReferences
career
English
(wikipedia career)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
- Washington's career as a soldier
- when a horse is running in his full career
- It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career ; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.
- These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career .
- It is said of Cæsar that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. (carriere)], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.
- to go back again the same career
Verb
(en verb)- The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
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