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1. (n.) carrier
a person or thing that carries.
2. carrier
a postal employee who delivers or collects mail.
3. carrier
a person who delivers newspapers or magazines.
4. carrier
an individual or company engaged in transporting passengers or goods for profit.
5. carrier
an underwriter or insurer.
6. carrier
a frame attached to a vehicle for carrying luggage or skis.
7. carrier
an individual harboring specific pathogenic organisms who, though often immune to the agent harbored, may transmit the agent to others.
8. carrier
an individual with an unexpressed recessive genetic trait.
9. carrier
the bearer of a defective gene.
10. carrier
Also called carrier wave. the radio wave whose amplitude, frequency, or phase is to be varied or modulated to transmit a signal.
11. carrier
a mechanism by which something is carried or moved.
12. carrier
a catalytic agent responsible for the transfer of an element or molecule from one compound to another.
13. carrier
a usu. inactive substance that serves as a vehicle for an active substance.
Etymology: (1350–1400)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) carrier, bearer, toter
someone whose employment involves carrying something
"the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
2. (noun) carrier
a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
"refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
3. (noun) aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, attack aircraft carrier
a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
4. (noun) 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
5. (noun) carrier, common carrier
a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
6. (noun) carrier wave, carrier
a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
7. (noun) mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier
a man who delivers the mail
8. (noun) carrier, newsboy
a boy who delivers newspapers
9. (noun) carrier, immune carrier
(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
10. (noun) carrier
a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
11. (noun) carrier
(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
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Carrier
one who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger
2. (noun) Carrier
one who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster
3. (noun) 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
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