Courier vs Bearer - What's the difference?
courier | bearer |
A person who looks after and guides tourists.
A person who delivers messages.
A company that delivers messages.
A company that transports goods.
(internet) A user who earns access to a topsite by uploading warez.
* 2005 , Paul Craig, Ron Honick, Mark Burnett, Software Piracy Exposed (page 2)
One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
* Bible, 2 Chron. ii. 18
* Dryden
Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession; pallbearer.
One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
(India, dated) A domestic servant or palanquin carrier.
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, p. 60:
A tree or plant yielding fruit.
(printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
(printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
As a proper noun courier
is a monospace font that resembles the characters produced by a typewriter.As a noun bearer is
one who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.courier
English
Noun
(en noun)- These sites have enormous hard drives and bandwidth for couriers to distribute the software from one site to the next.
Synonyms
* (person who looks after and guides tourists) guide, rep, tourist guide * (person who delivers messages) messenger * (company that delivers messages) * (company that transports goods) * (user who uploads to a topsite)bearer
English
Noun
(en noun)- Bearers of burdens.
- The bearer of unhappy news.
- (Milton)
- I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
- The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.
- a good bearer