war vessel vs carrier

carrier vs war vessel

war vessel and carrier both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
war vessel	Yes	No	No	No
carrier	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, carrier is a hyponym of war vessel; that is, carrier is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than war vessel:

war vessel: a government ship that is available for waging war
carrier: a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings

Other hyponyms of war vessel include aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, flattop, battleship, battlewagon, capital ship, corvette, cruiser, destroyer, guided missile destroyer, destroyer escort, frigate, frigate, guard ship, ironclad, man-of-war, ship of the line, privateer, sloop of war, submersible, submersible warship, surface ship, three-decker, torpedo boat.

war vessel (noun)	carrier (noun)
a government ship that is available for waging war	(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring
	a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
	a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
	a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
	a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
	(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
	a boy who delivers newspapers
	a man who delivers the mail
	someone whose employment involves carrying something
	a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
	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

Difference between war vessel and carrier

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