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Carrier   /kˈæriər/  /kˈɛriər/   Listen
Carrier

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



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"Carrier" Quotes from Famous Books



... letter. Ah, well-a-day! I'll open it now, and read. Little carrier dove, with fluttering heart, I'm a happy maiden, indeed. (She reads.) "O Princess fair, in the Ogre's tower, In the far-off Summer-land I seek the South Wind's silver flute, To summon a fairy band. Now send me a token by the dove That thou hast read my note. Send me the ...
— The Little Colonel's Hero • Annie Fellows Johnston

... Ph'lippeens indepindint on us f'r support,' I says; 'an', whin th' blessin's iv civilization has been extinded to his beloved counthry, an',' I says, 'they put up intarnal rivinue offices an' post-offices,' I says, 'we'll give him a good job as a letter-carrier,' I says, 'where he won't have annything to do,' I says, ...
— Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen • Finley Peter Dunne

... universal centralized government and citizenship, and developed a magnificent body of law; moreover, they had formed a standing army which was used in the support of monarchy, added some new features to architecture and industrial structures, and developed the Latin language, which was to be the carrier of thought for many centuries. (4) The Christian religion with a new philosophy of life was to penetrate and modify all society, all thought, government, law, art, and, in fact, all phases of human conduct. (5) The barbarian invasion carried with it the Teutonic idea of ...
— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar

... successful, and only scanty information was obtained or inferred from the discovery of a few buoys (on the west of Spitsbergen, northern Norway, Iceland, &c.) which the balloonists had arranged to drop, and a message taken from a carrier pigeon despatched from the balloon two days after its ascent. There were also messages in two of the buoys, but they dated only from the day of the ascent. The others ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... into my mind to call it 'The Sun- Dog Trail.' It was a long time ago, seven years ago, the fall of '97, when I saw the woman first time. At Lake Linderman I had one canoe, very good Peterborough canoe. I came over Chilcoot Pass with two thousand letters for Dawson. I was letter carrier. Everybody rush to Klondike at that time. Many people on trail. Many people chop down trees and make boats. Last water, snow in the air, snow on the ground, ice on the lake, on the river ice in the eddies. Every day more snow, more ice. Maybe one day, maybe three days, ...
— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London


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