CARRIER

Carrier

Carrier is an Emmy Award-winning 10-hour documentary television series about a six-month deployment of a United States Navy aircraft carrier in 2005 from the United States to the Middle East and back. Carrier is supplemented by a 90-minute companion documentary film called Another Day in Paradise.

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carrier

Noun

  1. A person or object that carries someone or something else.
    aircraft carrier
    armored personnel carrier
  2. A carrier pigeon, a newspaperese term (misnomer) for a homing pigeon, racing pigeon, racing homer, homer.
  3. An Old English carrier pigeon or Old English carrier (the "King of the Doos").
  4. A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
  5. A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease.
  6. A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
  7. A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
  8. An inert material added to an active ingredient to aid in the application and/or the effectiveness of active ingredient.
  9. A certified airline.
  10. That which drives or carries.
    1. A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
    2. A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
    3. A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.


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