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8 dictionary results for: Carrier
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car·ri·er       [kar-ee-er] Pronunciation Key
–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.
a.an individual or company, as a railroad or steamship line, engaged in transporting passengers or goods for profit.
b.common carrier.
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.
a.an individual possessing an unexpressed, recessive trait.
b.the bearer of a defective gene.
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. base1 (def. 15b).
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME; see carry, -er1]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
car·ri·er       (kār'ē-ər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. One that transports or conveys: baggage carriers; a message carrier.
  2. One, such as a person, business, or organization, that deals in the transport of passengers or goods.
  3. A mechanism or device by which something is conveyed or conducted.
  4. Medicine 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.
  5. Genetics An individual that carries one gene for a particular recessive trait. A carrier does not express the trait but, when mated with another carrier, can produce offspring that do.
  6. Electronics
    1. A carrier wave.
    2. A charge-carrying entity, especially an electron or a hole in a semiconductor.
  7. An aircraft carrier.
  8. An insurance or underwriting organization.
  9. A telecommunications company.

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carrier

noun
1. someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier" 
2. a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business" 
3. a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings [syn: aircraft carrier] 
4. 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. a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages 
6. a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal [syn: carrier wave] 
7. a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman] 
8. a boy who delivers newspapers 
9. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others 
10. a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like 
11. (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 

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The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
carrier       (kār'ē-ər)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. A person, animal, or plant that serves as a host for a pathogen and can transmit it to others, but is immune to it. Mosquitoes are carriers of malaria.
  2. An organism that carries a gene for a trait but does not show the trait itself. Carriers can produce offspring that express the trait by mating with another carrier of the same gene. See more at recessive.

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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

carrier car·ri·er (kār'ē-ər)
n.

  1. 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.
  2. A compound capable of transferring a hydrogen atom from one compound to another.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This
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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Carrier Mills, IL Zip code(s): 62917

Carrier, OK (town, FIPS 12200) Location: 36.47675 N, 98.01438 W
Population (1990): 171 (74 housing units)
Area: 41.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 73727

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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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