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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. Proper noun. A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes considered to be three separate languages; Southern Carrier, Northern Carrier and Central Carrier ¹

2. Noun. A person or object that carries someone or something else. ¹

3. Noun. A carrier pigeon, a newspaperese term (misnomer) for a homing pigeon, racing pigeon, racing homer, homer. ¹

4. Noun. An Old English carrier pigeon or Old English carrier (the "King of the Doos"). ¹

5. Noun. A company in the business of shipping freight. ¹

6. Noun. A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease. ¹

7. Noun. A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information. ¹

8. Noun. A mobile network operator; wireless carrier. ¹

9. Noun. An inert material added to an active ingredient to aid in the application and/or the effectiveness of active ingredient. ¹

10. Noun. A certified airline. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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

carriagemakers carriagemaking carriages carriageway carriageways carriboo carriboos carrick bend carrick bends carrick bitt

carricks carried carried away carried out carried the message to Garcia carrier (current term) carrier-free carrier-pigeon carrier bag carrier bags

carrier cell carrier electrophoresis carrier pigeon carrier pigeons carrier protein carrier proteins carrier screening carrier shell carrier state carrier strain

Literary usage of Carrier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactionsby European Orthodontic Society, Ossianic Society, North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, University of Glasgow Oriental Society, Wentworth Historical Society, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Homoeopathic Medical by European Orthodontic Society, Ossianic Society, North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, University of Glasgow Oriental Society, Wentworth Historical Society, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Homoeopathic Medical Society of t (1869)
"646 1941 Capacitors and Traps for Rural Line carrier, Coupling. ... 1378 1944 Capacitors for carrier Telephone Systems, Mica. Christopher, Kater. ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1920)
"The bills of lading sued on contained a clause relieving the carrier from liability for damages arising from— "any latent defect in bull. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1911)
"lost by a connecting carrier to whom they had been safely delivered. Though received for a point beyond its own line, and for a point on the line of a ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"1794] The impeachment of carrier prisoners of the Terror had been forced on them by the necessity of keeping the power out of the hands of the old ..."

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