carrier
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈkɛrɪər/
:
portaaviones
- We have these two very large naval carrier strike forces in our region.
- aircraft carrier
- nuclear aircraft carrier
- carrier battle group
We have these two very large naval carrier strike forces in our region.
- We have these two very large naval carrier strike forces in our region.
- But there are American carrier strike groups in the eastern Med and in the Gulf.
- Interloper was a plan to use one of our nuclear powered carriers as bait.
- Maybe we should send nuclear carrier battle groups into the South China Sea just in case.
- If people at the Pentagon, for example, are really worried about hostilities, they're going to send carrier battle groups.
- the United States is sending yet another US carrier strike group and troops to the Middle East just in case.
- And then I spent a year on board an aircraft carrier, HMS Invincible.
- And then we'll be surprised when aircraft carrier battle groups get smoked.
- And they built little fixed aircraft carriers all through the, the, the South China Sea.
- I mean, that's an entire aircraft carrier full of civil bands semen.
- How do the giants have to an aircraft carrier?
- And they are going to wind up at a space station just as a Maslan carrier is coming in.
- But that was my introduction to gold and I didn't buy any gold that day, but I let aircraft carriers sailed it to Hong Kong.
- And he was on that giant carrier and you just you grab onto his leg and you and you hold him under the water until he stops monkeying around.
Examples
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During that tense period, the United States dispatched two nuclear-armed aircraft carriers into the area.
Academic text (1999) -
The aircraft carrier launched fighter jets for a training exercise in the ocean.
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Have you boys seen an aircraft carrier?.
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the United States is sending yet another US carrier strike group and troops to the Middle East just in case.
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But there are American carrier strike groups in the eastern Med and in the Gulf.
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I was 7,000 miles away on an aircraft carrier with three months of duty in front of me.
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And then I spent a year on board an aircraft carrier, HMS Invincible.
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We're just learning about the movement of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and four other ships.
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Wilder, Captain of the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier.
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The dark ocean, whitecaps whipping luminous around the aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Essex and her escorts.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
59
3.8
A very large war ship with a long flat deck where military planes take off and land
1
7.2
A large ship with a long flat deck for planes to take off and land
1
7.7
A very large military ship that carries many aircraft and crew
A big military ship with a long flat deck that carries and launches fighter planes
Compounds
59
3.8
A very large war ship with a long flat deck where military planes take off and land
- Specialized
14
5.3
A military vehicle with metal protection that carries soldiers safely
- Specialized
7
6.1
Radio wave that carries information when its strength, rate, or timing is changed
2
2.8
A player in football or rugby who holds the ball and tries to move forward to score
- Formal
1
3.7
A person or company that carries people and goods for the public and must pay for any loss and damage
- Specialized
1
6.6
A light military truck that carries weapons like mortars or machine guns and their crews
- Specialized
A way to separate substances on filter paper using electric current to study them
- Formal
A company that sends data for the public and must treat all messages the same
- Specialized
A big military ship with a long flat deck that carries and launches fighter planes
- Specialized
A person who carries bricks and mortar to bricklayers at a building site
- Specialized
A person or animal who carries a disease without feeling sick but can infect others
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Carrier comes from carry, meaning to move something, and from a word for a wheeled vehicle like a car. That's why an aircraft carrier is a large ship that 'carries' planes on its deck.