Airline vs. Carrier

Airlinenoun

A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.

Airline

an organization, usually commercial or governmental, providing transportation by airplane for freight or passengers. The term includes the organization, its personnel, equipment and other properties, such as approved air routes.

Airlinenoun

a hose that carries air under pressure

Airlinenoun

a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers

Airline

An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines utilize aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in which they both offer and operate the same flight.

Carriernoun

A person or object that carries someone or something else.

Carriernoun

A carrier pigeon, a newspaperese term (misnomer) for a homing pigeon, racing pigeon, racing homer, homer.

Carriernoun

An Old English carrier pigeon or Old English carrier (the "King of the Doos").

Carriernoun

A person or company in the business of shipping freight.

Carriernoun

A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.

Carriernoun

A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.

Carriernoun

A certified airline.

Carriernoun

(engineering) That which drives or carries.

Carriernoun

A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.

Carriernoun

A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.

Carriernoun

A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.

Carriernoun

(chemistry) A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.

Carriernoun

A person or organism that has inherited a genetic trait, mutation or infectious disease, but displays no symptoms.

Carriernoun

charge carrier

Carriernoun

One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

Carriernoun

One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.

Carriernoun

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.

Carriernoun

someone whose employment involves carrying something;

Carriernoun

a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something;

Carriernoun

a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings

Carriernoun

an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction

Carriernoun

a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

Carriernoun

a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal

Carriernoun

a man who delivers the mail

Carriernoun

a boy who delivers newspapers

Carriernoun

a person who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others

Carriernoun

a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like