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Carrier Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Carrier? [n] a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings [n] a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like [n] a vehicle designed to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business" [n] a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages [n] a person who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others [n] a boy who delivers newspapers [n] someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier" [n] a man who delivers the mail [n] a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal [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 Synonyms \| Synonyms for Carrier: aircraft carrier \| attack aircraft carrier \| bearer \| carrier wave \| common carrier \| flattop \| immune carrier \| letter carrier \| mail carrier \| mailman \| newsboy \| postman \| toter Related Terms \| Find terms related to Carrier: advocate \| aerial infection \| airborne infection \| aircraft \| aircraft carrier \| alpenstock \| Aquarius \| arm \| athletic supporter \| back \| backbone \| backing \| bandeau \| bearer \| bheesty \| biological vector \| bra \| brace \| bracer \| bracket \| brassiere \| busboy \| buttress \| caddie \| cane \| cargo handler \| carriage \| carrier pigeon \| carrier wave \| carter \| cervix \| commissionaire \| common carrier \| communicability \| contagion \| contagiousness \| contamination \| conveyance \| conveyer \| coolie \| corset \| courier \| crook \| crutch \| cryptogenic infection \| cupbearer \| diplomatic courier \| direct infection \| drayman \| droplet infection \| dust infection \| electric wave \| electromagnetic wave \| emissary \| envoy \| epidemiology \| estafette \| express \| expressman \| flattop \| foundation garment \| freighter \| fulcrum \| Ganymede \| girdle \| go-between \| ground wave \| gun bearer \| guy \| guywire \| hand infection \| hauler \| Hebe \| Hermes \| hertzian wave \| high-frequency wave \| homer \| homing pigeon \| indirect infection \| infection \| infectiousness \| internuncio \| Iris \| jock \| jockstrap \| letter carrier \| litter-bearer \| long wave \| low-frequency wave \| mail car \| mail coach \| mail packet \| mail train \| mail truck \| mailer \| mailplane \| mainstay \| maintainer \| mast \| mechanical vector \| medium of transportation \| Mercury \| message-bearer \| messenger \| microwave \| neck \| nuncio \| packet boat \| Paul Revere \| Pheidippides \| phytogenic infection \| pigeon post \| porter \| post \| post boat \| post car \| post coach \| postboy \| poster \| post-horse \| post-office car \| postrider \| primary infection \| prop \| pyogenic infection \| radio wave \| railway mail car \| redcap \| reinforce \| reinforcement \| reinforcer \| rest \| resting place \| rigging \| runner \| seaplane carrier \| secondary infection \| shield-bearer \| shipper \| shortwave \| shoulder \| shroud \| sky wave \| skycap \| spine \| sprit \| staff \| standing rigging \| stave \| stay \| stevedore \| stick \| stiffener \| strengthener \| stretcher-bearer \| subclinical infection \| support \| supporter \| sustainer \| taint \| the Water Bearer \| transmitter \| transporter \| truck driver \| trucker \| upholder \| vector \| vehicle \| virus \| wagoner \| walking stick \| water boy \| water carrier \| waterborne infection \| watercraft \| wavelength \| zoogenic infection See Also \| arrester \| arrester hook \| bomb rack \| business \| business concern \| business organisation \| business organization \| chemical \| combat ship \| concern \| deliverer \| delivery boy \| deliveryman \| flight deck \| immune \| landing deck \| line \| luggage carrier \| luggage rack \| Mallon \| Mary Mallon \| rack \| radio emission \| radio radiation \| radio wave \| roof rack \| ski rack \| transmitter \| traveler \| traveller \| Typhoid Mary \| vector \| vehicle \| war vessel \| warship Carrier In Webster's Dictionary \Car"ri*er\, n. [From {Carry}.] 1. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds. --Bacon. 2. 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. --Swift. 3. (Mach.) 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 pigeon} (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home. {Carrier shell} (Zo["o]l.), a univalve shell of the genus {Phorus}; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as almost to conceal it. {Common carrier} (Law.) See under {Common}, a.

Carrier Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Carrier?

[n] a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings
[n] a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
[n] a vehicle designed to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
[n] a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
[n] a person who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
[n] a boy who delivers newspapers
[n] someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
[n] a man who delivers the mail
[n] a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
[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

Carrier In Webster's Dictionary

\Car"ri*er\, n. [From {Carry}.]
1. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

         The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds.
                                               --Bacon.

2. 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.                         --Swift.

3. (Mach.) 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 pigeon} (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the domestic pigeon
   used to convey letters from a distant point to to its
   home.

{Carrier shell} (Zo["o]l.), a univalve shell of the genus
   {Phorus}; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones
   and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as
   almost to conceal it.

{Common carrier} (Law.) See under {Common}, a.

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