Haulier vs. Carrier — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Haulier and Carrier
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Haulier
A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
Carrier
One that transports or conveys
Baggage carriers.
A message carrier.
Haulier
(mining) A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft.
Carrier
One, such as a person, business, or organization, that deals in the transport of passengers or goods.
Haulier
A haulage contractor.
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Carrier
A mechanism or device by which something is conveyed or conducted.
Haulier
A haulage contractor
Carrier
(Medicine) A person or animal that shows no symptoms of a disease but harbors the infectious agent of that disease and is capable of transmitting it to others.
Carrier
(Genetics) An individual that carries one gene for a particular recessive trait. A carrier does not express the trait but, when mated with another carrier, can produce offspring that do.
Carrier
(Physics) A boson, especially a gauge boson, that conveys a force or mediates an interaction between subatomic particles.
Carrier
A carrier wave.
Carrier
A charge-carrying entity, especially an electron or a hole in a semiconductor.
Carrier
An aircraft carrier.
Carrier
An insurance or underwriting organization.
Carrier
A telecommunications company.
Carrier
A person or object that carries someone or something else.
Armored personnel carrier
Carrier
Ellipsis of aircraft carrier
Carrier
A carrier pigeon.
Carrier
A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
Carrier
A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
Carrier
(telecommunication) A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
Carrier
(aviation) A certified airline.
Carrier
(engineering) That which drives or carries.
Carrier
A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
Carrier
A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
Carrier
A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
Carrier
A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
Carrier
(chemistry) A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
Carrier
A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
Carrier
A charge carrier.
Carrier
A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.
Linseed oil used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting
Inert carrier gas, which transports a chemical reactant
Carrier
One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds.
Carrier
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.
Carrier
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
Someone whose employment involves carrying something;
The bonds were transmitted by carrier
Carrier
A self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something;
Refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business
Carrier
A large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings
Carrier
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
Carrier
A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
Carrier
A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
Carrier
A man who delivers the mail
Carrier
A boy who delivers newspapers
Carrier
A person who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
Carrier
A rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
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