'Carrier' definitions:
Definition of 'carrier'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier" [syn: carrier, bearer, toter]
noun
A self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
noun
A large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings [syn: aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, attack aircraft carrier]
noun
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
A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages [syn: carrier, common carrier]
noun
A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal [syn: carrier wave, carrier]
noun
noun
A boy who delivers newspapers [syn: carrier, newsboy]
noun
(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others [syn: carrier, immune carrier]
noun
A rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
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(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
Definition of 'Carrier'
From: GCIDE
- Carrier \Car"ri*er\, n. [From Carry.]
- 1. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. [1913 Webster]
- The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster. [1913 Webster]
- The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mach.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. [1913 Webster]
- Carrier pigeon (Zool.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home.
- Carrier shell (Zool.), a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as almost to conceal it.
- Common carrier (Law.) See under Common, a. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'carrier'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advocate,
- aerial infection,
- airborne infection,
- aircraft,
- aircraft carrier,
- alpenstock,
- Aquarius,
- arm,
- athletic supporter,
- back,
- backbone,
- backing,
- bandeau,
- bearer,
- bheesty,
- biological vector,
- bra,
- brace,
- bracer,
- bracket,
- brassiere,
- busboy,
- buttress,
- caddie,
- cane,
- cargo handler,
- carriage,
- carrier pigeon,
- carrier wave,
- carter,
- cervix,
- commissionaire,
- common carrier,
- communicability,
- contagion,
- contagiousness,
- contamination,
- conveyance,
- conveyer,
- coolie,
- corset,
- courier,
- crook,
- crutch,
- cryptogenic infection,
- cupbearer,
- diplomatic courier,
- direct infection,
- drayman,
- droplet infection,
- dust infection,
- electric wave,
- electromagnetic wave,
- emissary,
- envoy,
- epidemiology,
- estafette,
- express,
- expressman,
- flattop,
- foundation garment,
- freighter,
- fulcrum,
- Ganymede,
- girdle,
- go-between,
- ground wave,
- gun bearer,
- guy,
- guywire,
- hand infection,
- hauler,
- Hebe,
- Hermes,
- hertzian wave,
- high-frequency wave,
- homer,
- homing pigeon,
- indirect infection,
- infection,
- infectiousness,
- internuncio,
- Iris,
- jock,
- jockstrap,
- letter carrier,
- litter-bearer,
- long wave,
- low-frequency wave,
- mail car,
- mail coach,
- mail packet,
- mail train,
- mail truck,
- mailer,
- mailplane,
- mainstay,
- maintainer,
- mast,
- mechanical vector,
- medium of transportation,
- Mercury,
- message-bearer,
- messenger,
- microwave,
- neck,
- nuncio,
- packet boat,
- Paul Revere,
- Pheidippides,
- phytogenic infection,
- pigeon post,
- porter,
- post,
- post boat,
- post car,
- post coach,
- post-horse,
- post-office car,
- postboy,
- poster,
- postrider,
- primary infection,
- prop,
- pyogenic infection,
- radio wave,
- railway mail car,
- redcap,
- reinforce,
- reinforcement,
- reinforcer,
- rest,
- resting place,
- rigging,
- runner,
- seaplane carrier,
- secondary infection,
- shield-bearer,
- shipper,
- shortwave,
- shoulder,
- shroud,
- sky wave,
- skycap,
- spine,
- sprit,
- staff,
- standing rigging,
- stave,
- stay,
- stevedore,
- stick,
- stiffener,
- strengthener,
- stretcher-bearer,
- subclinical infection,
- support,
- supporter,
- sustainer,
- taint,
- the Water Bearer,
- transmitter,
- transporter,
- truck driver,
- trucker,
- upholder,
- vector,
- vehicle,
- virus,
- wagoner,
- walking stick,
- water boy,
- water carrier,
- waterborne infection,
- watercraft,
- wavelength,
- zoogenic infection
Carrier, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Carrier, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000) :
77
Housing Units (2000) :
30
Land area (2000) :
1.216976 sq. miles (3.151954 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1.216976 sq. miles (3.151954 sq. km)
FIPS code :
12200
Located within :
Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location :
36.476654 N, 98.020572 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
73727
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Words containing 'Carrier'
- Carrier Mills,
- Carrier pigeon,
- Carrier shell,
- Carrier, OK,
- Common carrier,
- Letter carrier,
- aircraft carrier,
- ball carrier,
- car carrier,
- card carrier,
- carrier bag,
- carrier electrophoresis,
- carrier pigeons,
- carrier wave,
- hod carrier,
- immune carrier,
- luggage carrier,
- mail carrier,
- personnel carrier,
- spear carrier,
- troop carrier,
- water carrier,
- weapons carrier,
- Carrier Mills, IL,
- armored personnel carrier,
- armoured personnel carrier,
- attack aircraft carrier