A specific type of harness that is used to carry percussion instruments by a marching band or drum corps.
Short for aircraft carrier. Ex: "carrier-based military aircraft"
A unit in the computer game Starcraft that is Protoss. It carries drone interceptors that can outrange stationary ground defenses. They look like funny zeppelins.
The Japanese forces are kept track of with "intelligence counters", representing how much information is known about each force. This system gives a feeling of suspense, in that you never know as much as you would like about your enemy. The important thing is to find the enemy carriers before they find you.
The rule system of this game is very complicated, with special rules and exceptions for everything. The reason is that the rules are built on actual experiences from the war. Under almost every rule, there is a "Design note" of why this rule simulates the conditions of the war as well as possible.
Personally, I find this game very enjoyable and replayable, even though the threshold for learning the game was too high.
It's worth mentioning that in terms of X-linked abnormalities in humans, only the female can be a carrier; the male, having only one X chromosome, will automatically show his genotype in phenotype.
It is often recommended that if you know that certain diseases, such as hemophilia or sickle-cell, run in your family, that you get tested to see if you are a carrier, as some of these abnormalities can be devastating.
From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.
Car"ri*er (?), n. [From Carry.]
1.
One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds. Bacon.
2.
One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures. Swift.
3. Mach.
That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
Carrier pigeon Zool., a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home. -- Carrier shell Zool., a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as almost to conceal it. -- Common carrier Law. See under Common, a.
© Webster 1913.
printable version chaos
Everything2 Help
