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Carrier
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- 1 A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes considered to be three separate languages: Southern Carrier, Northern Carrier and Central Carrier. countable, uncountable
- 2 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 3 A small town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States; from the surname. countable, uncountable
- 1 A person or object that carries someone or something else.
"armored personnel carrier"
- 2 Synonym of English Carrier.
- 3 (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 wordnet
- 4 A person or object that carries someone or something else.; Ellipsis of aircraft carrier. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"Two weeks later, I reported to Pensacola, Florida, for duty aboard CV-48, the USS Saipan, a boxy old carrier the Navy retired from fleet duty and reassigned for use in training."
- 5 a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings wordnet
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- 6 A person or object that carries someone or something else.; Ellipsis of aircraft carrier.; A starship designed to carry starfighters broadly
"And each was hideously powerful: an attack carrier could destroy a world, a force of cruisers and spinship destroyers could destroy a sun."
- 7 a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like wordnet
- 8 A person or object that carries someone or something else.; Ellipsis of carrier bag. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 9 a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something wordnet
- 10 A carrier pigeon.
- 11 a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages wordnet
- 12 A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
"The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures."
- 13 (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which they are immune but who can pass it on to others wordnet
- 14 A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
- 15 a boy who delivers newspapers wordnet
- 16 A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
- 17 someone whose employment involves carrying something wordnet
- 18 A certified airline.
"Southwest, the nation’s largest domestic carrier, is installing seats with less cushion and thinner materials — a svelte model known in the business as “slim-line.”"
- 19 a person who delivers the mail wordnet
- 20 That which drives or carries.; A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
- 21 a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal wordnet
- 22 That which drives or carries.; A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
- 23 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 wordnet
- 24 That which drives or carries.; A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
- 25 That which drives or carries.; A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
- 26 That which drives or carries.; Part of a differential gear assembly that holds gears and their bearings. especially
- 27 A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
- 28 A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
- 29 A charge carrier.
- 30 A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.
"Linseed oil is often used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting."
Etymology
From Middle English cariere, partly from carien + -ere, after Anglo-Norman carier, cariour, and partly directly from Anglo-Norman. By surface analysis, carry + -er.
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