Definitions for Carrier
Carrier
car·ri·er
Spelling: [kar-ee-er]
IPA: /ˈkær i ər/
Carrier is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 76 anagrams from letters in Carrier (aceirrr).
Definitions for Carrier
noun
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a person or thing that carries.
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an employee of the post office who carries mail.
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a person who delivers newspapers, magazines, etc., on a particular route.
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Transportation.
an individual or company, as a railroad or steamship line, engaged in transporting passengers or goods for profit.
common carrier.
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Insurance. a company that acts or functions as an underwriter or insurer.
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a frame, usually of metal, attached to a vehicle for carrying skis, luggage, etc., as on top of an automobile or station wagon; rack.
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aircraft carrier.
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Immunology. an individual harboring specific pathogenic organisms who, though often immune to the agent harbored, may transmit the disease to others.
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Genetics.
an individual possessing an unexpressed, recessive trait.
the bearer of a defective gene.
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Also called carrier wave. Radio. the wave whose amplitude, frequency, or phase is to be varied or modulated to transmit a signal.
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Machinery. a mechanism by which something is carried or moved.
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Chemistry. a catalytic agent that brings about a transfer of an element or group of atoms from one compound to another.
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Also called charge carrier. Physics. any of the mobile electrons or holes in a metal or semiconductor that enable it to conduct electrical charge.
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Physical Chemistry. a usually inactive substance that acts as a vehicle for an active substance.
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carrier pigeon.
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Painting. base1 (def 15b).
Origin of Carrier
Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at carry, -er1
Examples for Carrier
Those who did do it had fled, and, as the carrier had recognized him as in the party, he had been arrested.
The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.
The NYPD remained his ultimate goal as he went to work as a carrier for Airborne Express/DHL and then as a school safety officer.
The carrier with whom I bargained did not take me; I fell out with him.
The question was asked in a mild way as if he intended to help the carrier's memory.
I desired the carrier to pay you, but as I mentioned only 15s.
American carrier Delta is suspending flights to Monrovia on August 31.
One of them slipped up behind the carrier, and knocked him from his horse.
Riffing off the slogan “Now Everyone Can Fly,” the carrier offered no-frills flights that were both cheap and plentiful.
When she tried to explain to him that he himself could be a carrier, he “willfully ignored what [she] said.”