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carrier
[ kar-ee-er ]
noun
- 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. base 1( def 16b ).
carrier
1/ ˈæɪə /
noun
- 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
- pathol a person or animal that, without having any symptoms of a disease, is capable of transmitting it to others
- Also calledcharge 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
Carrier
2/ ˈæɪə /
noun
- a member of an Athapaskan Native North American people of British Columbia
carrier
/ ă′ŧ-ə /
- 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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Example Sentences
In his inauguration speech, Aoun promised to make the Lebanese army the sole carrier of weapons in the country.
Eventually the ban is lifted, but Facebook becomes the carrier of hate speech directed at the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority — theoretically in violation of the company’s touted community standards.
As airlines look to capitalize on the return to travel after the pandemic emergency, Delta and other carriers are leaning into high-end amenities such as luxury lounges that offer fine dining and wellness areas.
Angels in the Asylum is due to star Simon Pegg and Minnie Driver and tells the story of women who were locked away for being typhoid carriers.
A woman in her 30s has been arrested after a newborn baby boy was found dead in a carrier bag in Notting Hill, west London, last week.
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