Carrier vs Forwarder - What's the difference?
carrier | forwarder |
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 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 an adjective forwarder is
(forward).As a noun forwarder is
one who, or that which, forwards something to another destination.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.