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car⋅ri⋅er
[kar-ee-er]
–noun
| 1. | a person or thing that carries. |
| 2. | an employee of the post office who carries mail. |
| 3. | a person who delivers newspapers, magazines, etc., on a particular route. |
| 4. | Transportation.
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| 5. | Insurance. a company that acts or functions as an underwriter or insurer. |
| 6. | a frame, usually of metal, attached to a vehicle for carrying skis, luggage, etc., as on top of an automobile or station wagon; rack. |
| 7. | aircraft carrier. |
| 8. | Immunology. an individual harboring specific pathogenic organisms who, though often immune to the agent harbored, may transmit the disease to others. |
| 9. | Genetics.
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| 10. | Also called carrier wave. Radio. the wave whose amplitude, frequency, or phase is to be varied or modulated to transmit a signal. |
| 11. | Machinery. a mechanism by which something is carried or moved. |
| 12. | Chemistry. a catalytic agent that brings about a transfer of an element or group of atoms from one compound to another. |
| 13. | Also called charge carrier. Physics. any of the mobile electrons or holes in a metal or semiconductor that enable it to conduct electrical charge. |
| 14. | Physical Chemistry. a usually inactive substance that acts as a vehicle for an active substance. |
| 15. | carrier pigeon. |
| 16. | Painting. base 1 (def. 15b). |
base
1 [beys]
noun, adjective, verb, based, bas⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table. |
| 2. | a fundamental principle or groundwork; foundation; basis: the base of needed reforms. |
| 3. | the bottom layer or coating, as of makeup or paint. |
| 4. | Architecture.
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| 5. | Botany, Zoology.
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| 6. | the principal element or ingredient of anything, considered as its fundamental part: face cream with a lanolin base; paint with a lead base. |
| 7. | that from which a commencement, as of action or reckoning, is made; a starting point or point of departure. |
| 8. | Baseball.
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| 9. | a starting line or point for runners, racing cars, etc. |
| 10. | (in hockey and other games) the goal. |
| 11. | Military.
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| 12. | Geometry. the line or surface forming the part of a figure that is most nearly horizontal or on which it is supposed to stand. |
| 13. | Mathematics.
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| 14. | Also called base line. Surveying. See under triangulation (def. 1). |
| 15. | Painting.
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| 16. | Photography. a thin, flexible layer of cellulose triacetate or similar material that holds the light-sensitive film emulsion and other coatings, esp. on motion-picture film. |
| 17. | Chemistry.
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| 18. | Grammar. the part of a complex word, consisting of one or more morphemes, to which derivational or inflectional affixes may be added, as want in unwanted or biolog- in biological. Compare root 1 (def. 11), stem 1 (def. 16). |
| 19. | Linguistics. the component of a generative grammar containing the lexicon and phrase-structure rules that generate the deep structure of sentences. |
| 20. | Electronics.
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| 21. | Stock Exchange. the level at which a security ceases a decline in price. |
| 22. | Heraldry. the lower part of an escutcheon. |
| 23. | bases, Armor. a tonlet formed of two shaped steel plates assembled side by side. |
| 24. | Jewelry. pavilion (def. 6). |
| 25. | in base, Heraldry. in the lower part of an escutcheon. |
–adjective
| 26. | serving as or forming a base: The walls will need a base coat and two finishing coats. |
–verb (used with object)
| 27. | to make or form a base or foundation for. |
| 28. | to establish, as a fact or conclusion (usually fol. by on or upon): He based his assumption of her guilt on the fact that she had no alibi. |
| 29. | to place or establish on a base or basis; ground; found (usually fol. by on or upon): Our plan is based on a rising economy. |
| 30. | to station, place, or situate (usually fol. by at or on): He is based at Fort Benning. The squadron is based on a carrier. |
–verb (used without object)
—Idioms| 31. | to have a basis; be based (usually fol. by on or upon): Fluctuating prices usually base on a fickle public's demand. |
| 32. | to have or maintain a base: I believe they had based on Greenland at one time. |
| 33. | get to first base. first base (def. 2). |
| 34. | off base,
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| 35. | on base, Baseball. having reached a base or bases: Two men are on base. |
| 36. | touch base with, to make contact with: They've touched base with every political group on campus. |
Synonyms:
1. Base, basis, foundation refer to anything upon which a structure is built and upon which it rests. Base usually refers to a literal supporting structure: the base of a statue. Basis more often refers to a figurative support: the basis of a report. Foundation implies a solid, secure understructure: the foundation of a skyscraper or a rumor.
1. Base, basis, foundation refer to anything upon which a structure is built and upon which it rests. Base usually refers to a literal supporting structure: the base of a statue. Basis more often refers to a figurative support: the basis of a report. Foundation implies a solid, secure understructure: the foundation of a skyscraper or a rumor.
common carrier
–noun
| 1. | Transportation. (in federal regulatory and other legal usage) a carrier offering its services at published rates to all persons for interstate transportation. |
| 2. | a public service or public utility company, as a telephone or telegraph company, engaged in the transmitting of messages for the public. |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Carrier
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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Main Entry: car·ri·er
Function: noun
1 : an individual or entity engaged in transporting passengers or goods for hire by land, water, or air; specifically : COMMON CARRIER
2 : an insurer that assumes the risks of a policy that it issues to a policyholder
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: car·ri·er
Pronunciation: 'kar-E-&r
Function: noun
1 a : a person, animal, or plant that harbors and disseminates thespecific agent (as a microorganism) causing an infectious disease from which it has recovered or to which it is immune <carrier of typhoid fever> —compare
2 : a usually inactive substance used in association with an active substance especially for aiding in the application of the active substance: as a : a support for acatalyst b : a vehicle serving especially as a diluent (as for an insecticide or a drug)
3 : a substance (as a catalyst) by whose agency some element or group istransferred from one compound to another
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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carrier car·ri·er (kār'ē-ər)
n.
- A person or an animal that shows no symptoms of a disease but harbors the infectious agent of that disease and is capable of transmitting it to others.
- A compound capable of transferring a hydrogen atom from one compound to another.
- A quantity of naturally occurring element added to a minute amount of pure isotope, especially a radioactive one, to facilitate the chemical handling of the isotope.
- An individual that carries, but does not express, a gene for a particular recessive trait, yet when mated with another carrier, can produce offspring that do.
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carrier (kār'ē-ər) Pronunciation Key
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