carrier
Nouns
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(n) someone whose employment involves carrying something
- the bonds were transmitted by carrier
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(n) a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
- refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business
- (n) a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, flattop,
- (n) 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
- (n) a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages common carrier,
- (n) a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal carrier wave,
- (n) a man who delivers the mail letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, postman,
- (n) a boy who delivers newspapers newsboy,
- (n) (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others immune carrier,
- (n) a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
- (n) (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