Definition of Carrier

  • 1. Someone whose employment involves carrying something Noun
  • 2. A self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something Noun
  • 3. A large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings Noun
  • 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 Noun
  • 5. A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages Noun
  • 6. A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal Noun
  • 7. A man who delivers the mail Noun
  • 8. A boy who delivers newspapers Noun
  • 9. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others Noun
  • 10. A rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like Noun
  • 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 Noun

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