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n. One that transports or conveys: baggage carriers; a message carrier.

n. One, such as a person, business, or organization, that deals in the transport of passengers or goods.

n. A mechanism or device by which something is conveyed or conducted.

n. Medicine A person or an animal that shows no symptoms of a disease but harbors the infectious agent of that disease and is capable of transmitting it to others.

n. Genetics An individual that carries one gene for a particular recessive trait. A carrier does not express the trait but, when mated with another carrier, can produce offspring that do.

n. Electronics A carrier wave.

n. Electronics A charge-carrying entity, especially an electron or a hole in a semiconductor.

n. An aircraft carrier.

n. An insurance or underwriting organization.

n. A telecommunications company.

n. A person or object that carries someone or something else.

n. A carrier pigeon, a newspaperese term (misnomer) for a homing pigeon, racing pigeon, racing homer, homer.

n. An Old English carrier pigeon or Old English carrier (the "King of the Doos").

n. A person or company in the business of shipping freight.

n. A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease.

n. A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.

n. A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.

n. An inert material added to an active ingredient to aid in the application and/or the effectiveness of active ingredient.

n. A certified airline.

n. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

n. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.

n. 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.

n. One who or that which carries or conveys.

n. Specifically

n. One who for hire undertakes the conveyance of goods or persons.

n. A carrier-pigeon.

n. One who manages or arranges affairs.

n. In machinery: A piece of iron fixed by a setscrew on the end of a shaft or spindle to be turned in a lathe, or to a mandrel on which a round object is driven for the purpose of being turned; a lathe-dog. A projection in the center-chuck or face-plate drives the carrier around.

n. The distributing-roller of a carding-machine.

n. A roller between the drum and the feeding-rollers of a scribbling-machine, for spinning wool.

n. In a braiding-machine, a spool- or bobbin-holder which follows in a curved path intersecting the paths of other bobbins, and so lays up the thread into a braid.

n. A hoist, as the mold-carrier in sugar-works.

n. (f ) Part of the breech-action of a magazine-gun. See carrier-ring.

n. An oyster that will bear transportation well.

An old spelling of career.

n. In transportation, a system of endless traveling-chains supporting slats, trays, or buckets, used in transporting various materials or articles in bulk or in packages over short distances, as in a factory.

n. a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something

n. a boy who delivers newspapers

n. a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal

n. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others

n. someone whose employment involves carrying something

n. a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings

n. a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like

n. 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

n. a man who delivers the mail

n. a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

n. (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

"-- The immense superiority of the Transcontinental over any other road, as a grain carrier, is due to the fact that a train can travel from the Yellowhead Pass to tide water at Quebec without encountering any adverse grades greater than four-tenths of one per cent., or 21 feet to the mile."

self-propelled vehicle    deliverer    delivery boy    deliveryman    radio radiation    radio emission    radio wave    traveler    traveller    war vessel   

carrier's sauce    barbary carrier   

carrier pigeon    people carrier    aircraft carrier    common carrier    armored personnel carrier    armoured personnel carrier    charge carrier    carrier bag   

messenger    porter    teamster   

barrier    charrier    farrier    ferrier    harrier    merrier    perrier    scarier    terrier   

transport    aircraft    vehicle    unit    cruiser    tank    provider    operator    helicopter    shuttle