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 [kar-ee-er]  

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.
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.
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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).
COLLAPSE
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see carry, -er1

Related forms
in·ter·car·ri·er, noun
non·car·ri·er, noun
su·per·car·ri·er, noun
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Medical Dictionary

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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Science Dictionary
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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carrier definition


  1. n.
    a narcotics seller or transporter. (Drugs. See also courier.) : The carrier has the most dangerous job of all.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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