Definition of Carrier

1. Noun. Someone whose employment involves carrying something. "The bonds were transmitted by carrier"

Exact synonyms: Bearer, Toter
Generic synonyms: Traveler, Traveller
Derivative terms: Bear, Carry, Tote

2. Noun. A self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something. "Refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
Generic synonyms: Self-propelled Vehicle
Derivative terms: Carry

3. Noun. A large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings.

4. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Chemical, Chemical Substance

5. Noun. A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages.
Exact synonyms: Common Carrier
Specialized synonyms: Line
Generic synonyms: Business, Business Concern, Business Organisation, Business Organization, Concern
Derivative terms: Carry

6. Noun. A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal.
Exact synonyms: Carrier Wave
Generic synonyms: Radio Emission, Radio Radiation, Radio Wave
Derivative terms: Carry

7. Noun. A man who delivers the mail.

8. Noun. A boy who delivers newspapers.
Exact synonyms: Newsboy
Generic synonyms: Deliverer, Delivery Boy, Deliveryman

9. Noun. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others.
Exact synonyms: Immune Carrier
Category relationships: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Generic synonyms: Transmitter, Vector, Immune
Specialized synonyms: Mallon, Mary Mallon, Typhoid Mary
Derivative terms: Carry

10. Noun. A rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like.
Specialized synonyms: Bomb Rack, Luggage Carrier, Luggage Rack, Roof Rack, Ski Rack
Generic synonyms: Rack
Derivative terms: Carry

11. Noun. (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.
Generic synonyms: Being, Organism
Category relationships: Genetic Science, Genetics

Definition of Carrier

1. n. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

Definition of Carrier

1. one that carries [n -S] - See also: carries

Medical Definition of Carrier

1. 1. An individual who does not display the symptoms of a disease, but harbors the pathogen which causes it, or has the gene (or genes) for it, and can transmit the disease to others either through interacting with other individuals, or by passing the disease-causing gene (or genes) to offspring. 2. A substance which transports things, such as a carrier protein. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carrier

Carrere
carriage
carriages
carriageway
carriageways
carriage bolt
carriage dog
carriage house
carriage return
carriage trade
carriage wrench
carrick bend
carrick bitt
carried
carrier (current term)
carrier (current term)
carrier-free
carriers
carrier bag
carrier cell
carrier electrophoresis
carrier electrophoresis
carrier pigeon
carrier protein
carrier proteins
carrier screening
carrier state
carrier strain
carrier test
carrier wave

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