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Definition of Carrier

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

2. Noun. A self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something. "Refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"

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.

5. Noun. A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages.

6. Noun. A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal.

7. Noun. A man who delivers the mail.

8. Noun. A boy who delivers newspapers.

9. Noun. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others.

10. Noun. A rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like.

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.

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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