carrier
/ˈkæɹi.ə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.29 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
Example Sentences
- "armored personnel carrier"
- "The air which is but […] a carrier of the sounds."
- "Two weeks later, I reported to Pensacola, Florida, for duty aboard CV-48, the USS Saipan, a boxy old carrier the Navy retired from fleet duty and reassigned for use in training."
- "And each was hideously powerful: an attack carrier could destroy a world, a force of cruisers and spinship destroyers could destroy a sun."
- "The first carrier completely ignored us, sir! Blew through the Malta’s debris field and headed straight for Earth!"
- "In fleet combat, carriers stay clear of battle, launching fighters bearing disruptor torpedoes. Fighters are the primary striking power of the ship; if a carrier enters mass accelerator range of the enemy, things have gone very wrong. It is possible to recover and rearm fighters during combat, though most carriers seal the flight deck and try to stay out of the way. The flight deck is essentially a corridor through the armor and into the heart of the vessel. A single well-placed torpedo is enough to gut a carrier. Alliance carriers are named after great leaders, artists, and intellectuals from human history."
Etymology
From Middle English cariere, partly from carien + -ere, after Anglo-Norman carier, cariour, and partly directly from Anglo-Norman. By surface analysis, carry + -er.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: cariere, carier,cariour
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkæɹi.ə/
- British English: /ˈkæɹi.ə/
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable