Carrier vs Cell - 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.
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
* 1858 , (Asa Gray), Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany , fifth edition, p. 282:
(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch.XVI:
A section or compartment of a larger structure.
*, II.12:
* 1810 , (Walter Scott), Lady of the Lake , II:
A room in a prison for one or more inmates.
A device which stores electrical]] power; used either singly or together in [[battery, batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
(biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
* 1999 , Paul Brown & Dave King, The Guardian , 15 Feb 1999:
* 2011 , Terence Allen & Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 3:
(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
(communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in .
(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
(architecture) A cella.
(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins
As nouns the difference between carrier and cell
is that carrier is a person or object that carries someone or something else while cell is a single-room dwelling for a hermit.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 cell is
to place or enclose in a cell.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
cell
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) , later reinforced by (etyl) cel, (sele), (etyl) cele.Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia cell)- So, taking them apart into his cell , / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].
- Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell .
- Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom.
- From cell' to ' cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.
- Thou seest but the order and policie of this little Cell .
- Not long shall honour'd Douglas dwell, / Like hunted stag, in mountain-cell .
- The combatants spent the night in separate cells .
- This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells .
- An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.
- In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.
- There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
- The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
- Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
- Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells .
- I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
