carrier
a person or thing that carries.
an employee of the post office who carries mail.
a person who delivers newspapers, magazines, etc., on a particular route.
Transportation.
an individual or company, as a railroad or steamship line, engaged in transporting passengers or goods for profit.
Insurance. a company that acts or functions as an underwriter or insurer.
a frame, usually of metal, attached to a vehicle for carrying skis, luggage, etc., as on top of an automobile or station wagon; rack.
Immunology. an individual harboring specific pathogenic organisms who, though often immune to the agent harbored, may transmit the disease to others.
Genetics.
an individual possessing an unexpressed, recessive trait.
the bearer of a defective gene.
Also called carrier wave .Radio. the wave whose amplitude, frequency, or phase is to be varied or modulated to transmit a signal.
Machinery. a mechanism by which something is carried or moved.
Chemistry. a catalytic agent that brings about a transfer of an element or group of atoms from one compound to another.
Also called charge carrier. Physics. any of the mobile electrons or holes in a metal or semiconductor that enable it to conduct electrical charge.
Physical Chemistry. a usually inactive substance that acts as a vehicle for an active substance.
Painting. base1 (def. 16b).
Origin of carrier
1Other words from carrier
- in·ter·car·ri·er, noun
- non·car·ri·er, noun
- su·per·car·ri·er, noun
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How to use carrier in a sentence
The announcement comes as the carrier successfully completed a test with Corning to deploy a private 5G network inside a laboratory.
Verizon plans to offer indoor 5G networks by year-end | Aaron Pressman | September 16, 2020 | FortuneThough Verizon is the largest wireless carrier overall, with 116 million regular monthly subscribers, it has only 4 million prepaid customers.
That would have meant widespread testing to identify those who had caught the virus, quarantining and tracing the contacts of both symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers who could spread the disease to the most vulnerable.
America Is About to Lose Its 200,000th Life to Coronavirus. How Many More Have to Die? | by Stephen Engelberg | September 14, 2020 | ProPublicaIn more than a half-dozen cases, the carriers persuaded a judge to throw out the lawsuit, in part because the court agreed that a property insurance policy can’t be invoked if there is no property damage.
Got interruption insurance? These companies found it’s useless in the age of COVID-19 | Bernhard Warner | September 12, 2020 | FortuneYour lender will need the name and contact information of your insurance carrier before completing your loan.
The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.
The airplane was owned by an Indonesian budget carrier, Lion Air.
Riffing off the slogan “Now Everyone Can Fly,” the carrier offered no-frills flights that were both cheap and plentiful.
The Presumed Crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Is Nothing Like MH370 | Lennox Samuels | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAirAsia, on the other hand, is a relatively new carrier, an upstart in the tradition of Southwest Airlines in the United States.
The Presumed Crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Is Nothing Like MH370 | Lennox Samuels | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe NYPD remained his ultimate goal as he went to work as a carrier for Airborne Express/DHL and then as a school safety officer.
She repeated the brief phrases, as well as she could recall them, to a Eurasian whom she found acting as a water-carrier.
The Red Year | Louis TracyAnd the same goes for any other common carrier—the railroads, bus service, and airlines.
Louis the Goon Engel was a mere walk-on in the piece, a spear-carrier doomed to death.
Instead of being a destroyer of merchandise, this new craft was an unarmed carrier of merchandise.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousBut it's all right now—they'll throw the letters into the mail-carrier's bag—there'll be many of them—this is general letter day.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander Berkman
British Dictionary definitions for carrier (1 of 2)
/ (ˈkærɪə) /
a person, thing, or organization employed to carry goods, passengers, etc
a mechanism by which something is carried or moved, such as a device for transmitting rotation from the faceplate of a lathe to the workpiece
pathol another name for vector (def. 3)
pathol a person or animal that, without having any symptoms of a disease, is capable of transmitting it to others
Also called: charge carrier physics an electron, ion, or hole that carries the charge in a conductor or semiconductor
short for carrier wave
chem
the inert solid on which a dyestuff is adsorbed in forming a lake
a substance, such as kieselguhr or asbestos, used to support a catalyst
an inactive substance containing a radioisotope used in radioactive tracing
an inert gas used to transport the sample through a gas-chromatography column
a catalyst that effects the transfer of an atom or group from one molecule to another
See aircraft carrier
a breed of domestic fancy pigeon having a large walnut-shaped wattle over the beak; a distinct variety of pigeon from the homing or carrier pigeon: See also carrier pigeon
a US name for roof rack
British Dictionary definitions for Carrier (2 of 2)
/ (ˈkærɪə) /
a member of an Athapaskan Native North American people of British Columbia
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Scientific definitions for carrier
[ kăr′ē-ər ]
A person, animal, or plant that serves as a host for a pathogen and can transmit it to others, but is immune to it. Mosquitoes are carriers of malaria.
An organism that carries a gene for a trait but does not show the trait itself. Carriers can produce offspring that express the trait by mating with another carrier of the same gene. See more at recessive.
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