carrier

Plural: carriers

Noun

• someone whose employment involves carrying something
  • "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
• a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
  • "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
• a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
• 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
• a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
• a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
• a man who delivers the mail
• a boy who delivers newspapers
• (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
• a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
• (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
• A person or object that carries someone or something else.
• Ellipsis of aircraft carrier.
• A person or object that carries someone or something else.
• Ellipsis of aircraft carrier.
• A starship designed to carry starfighters
• A person or object that carries someone or something else.
• Ellipsis of carrier bag.
• A person or object that carries someone or something else.
• A carrier pigeon.
• A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
• A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
• A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
• A certified airline.
• That which drives or carries.
• A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
• That which drives or carries.
• A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
• 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.
• That which drives or carries.
• A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
• That which drives or carries.
• Part of a differential gear assembly that holds gears and their bearings.
• A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
• A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
• A charge carrier.
• A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.

Examples

• "armored personnel carrier"
• "inert carrier gas"
• "Linseed oil is often used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting."

Synonyms

-phore, aircraft carrier, arm, attack aircraft carrier, bearer, carrier wave, common carrier, flattop, immune carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, newsboy, postman, spider, toter, translator