carrier
Use Carrier in a sentence
i 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.
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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.
8.
Immunology. an individual harboring specific pathogenic organisms who, though often immune to the agent harbored, may transmit the disease to others.
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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.
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Machinery. a mechanism by which something is carried or moved.
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Chemistry. a catalytic agent that brings about a transfer of an element or group of atoms from one compound to another.
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Also called charge carrier. Physics. any of the mobile electrons or holes in a metal or semiconductor that enable it to conduct electrical charge.
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Physical Chemistry. a usually inactive substance that acts as a vehicle for an active substance.
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World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person, thing, or organization employed to carry goods, passengers, etc |
| 2. | a mechanism by which something is carried or moved, such as a device for transmitting rotation from the faceplate of a lathe to the workpiece |
| 3. | pathol another name for vector |
| 4. | pathol a person or animal that, without having any symptoms of a disease, is capable of transmitting it to others |
| 5. | physics Also called: charge carrier an electron, ion, or hole that carries the charge in a conductor or semiconductor |
| 6. | short for carrier wave |
| 7. | chem |
| a. the inert solid on which a dyestuff is adsorbed in forming a lake | |
| b. a substance, such as kieselguhr or asbestos, used to support a catalyst | |
| c. an inactive substance containing a radioisotope used in radioactive tracing | |
| d. an inert gas used to transport the sample through a gas-chromatography column | |
| e. a catalyst that effects the transfer of an atom or group from one molecule to another | |
| 8. | See aircraft carrier |
| 9. | See also carrier pigeon a breed of domestic fancy pigeon having a large walnut-shaped wattle over the beak; a distinct variety of pigeon from the homing or carrier pigeon |
| 10. | a US name for roof rack |
| Carrier (ˈkærɪə) | |
| —n | |
| a member of an Athapaskan Native North American people of British Columbia | |
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
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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Science Dictionary
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Slang Dictionary
carrier definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
One was about a half mile off the port side of the aircraft carrier and was really loud and shook the whole ship.
The capital ship was an aircraft carrier stuck on a flat ocean, and their fighters were navy planes in atmosphere.
Paying for college education does not mean you are guaranteed a life-time carrier either.
Next to the road, there was an overturned armored personnel carrier.
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