carrier meaning

Noun: carrier  kareeu(r)

1. Someone whose employment involves carrying something
   "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
   - bearer, toter 
2. A self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
   "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business" 
3. A large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
   - aircraft carrier, flattop [US], attack aircraft carrier 
4. 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 
5. A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
   - common carrier 
6. A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
   - carrier wave 
7. A man who delivers the mail
   - mailman [N. Amer], postman, mail carrier [N. Amer], letter carrier [N. Amer], postie [Brit] 
8. A boy who delivers newspapers
   - newsboy 
9. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
   - immune carrier 
10. A rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like 
11. (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

Derived forms: carriers

See also: carry

Type of: being, business, business concern, business organisation [Brit], business organization, chemical, chemical substance, combat ship, concern, deliverer, delivery boy, deliveryman, immune, organism, rack, radio emission, radio radiation, radio wave, self-propelled vehicle, transmitter, traveler [US], traveller [Brit, Cdn], vector, war vessel, warship

Encyclopedia: Carrier, Mark Carrier Carrier, Oklahoma Carrier, OK

[American slang]
n. a narcotics seller or transporter.
• The carrier has the most dangerous job of all.
• You'll never see an old carrier.

[Architecture]
1.

A mobile prime mover for transporting construction machines; also may serve as the working base or undercarriage of the machine.

2.

A container attached to or hung from a trolley for moving a load from one point to another on a construction site.

3.

A carrier angle or carrier bar which supports treads formed from metal grating.

[Business]
noun [C]

BULK CARRIER, COMMON CARRIER, CONTRACT CARRIER, FREE CARRIER, INSURANCE CARRIER, PUBLIC CARRIER

1

a company that carries goods or passengers from one place to another, especially by air:

The airline aims to become Europe's biggest carrier.

In five years the company changed from a medium-sized domestic carrier to the tenth largest international airline.

a budget/low-cost/no-frills carrier

2 (IT )

a company that provides access to a communications network:

the leading wireless Internet carrier

[Law]
n. One who transports persons or goods from one place to another. Carriage IS normally under a contract that may affect or limit the duties otherwise imposed by law, but contracts may be subject to statutory control. Carriers of goods are bailees of the goods consigned. A common carrier is one who publicly undertakes to carry any goods or persons for payment on the routes he covers. A common carrier is subject to three duties:
(1) he must, if he has space, accept any goods of the type he carnes or any person;
(2)he must charge only a reasonable rate; and
(3) he is strictly liable for all loss or damage to goods in the course of transit (but see INHERENT VICE). All other carriers are private carriers, and they owe only a duty of reasonable care.

[Mechanical engineering]
Any machine for transporting materials or people.

[Medicine]
An individual having different alleles at one or more loci in homologous chromosome segments. n
1
a : a person, animal, or plant that harbors and disseminates the specific agent (as a microorganism) causing an infectious disease from which it has recovered or to which it is immune ‹carrier of typhoid fever› —compare RESERVOIR 2 VECTOR 2
b : an individual possessing a specified gene and capable of transmitting it to offspring but not of showing its typical expression; esp : one that is heterozygous for a recessive factor
2 : a usu. inactive substance used in association with an active substance esp. for aiding in the application of the active substance: as
a : a support for a catalyst
b : a vehicle serving esp. as a diluent (as for an insecticide or a drug)
3 : a substance (as a catalyst) by whose agency some element or group is transferred from one compound to another

[Computer]
<communications> (CAP) A design of Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line transceiver developed by Bell Labs. CAP was the first ADSL design to be commercially deployed and, as of August 1996, was installed on more lines than any other.

CAP is a variation of Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, the modulation used by most existing modems in 1997. With CAP, the three channels (POTS, downstream data and upstream data) are supported by splitting the frequency spectrum. Voice occupies the standard 0-4 Khz frequency band, followed by the upstream channel and the high-speed downstream channel.

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1. it acted as the carrier of this disease.
2. they believe that the charge carrier is protonic.
3. the carrier may discharge the goods into any depot.
4. the carrier stopped short.
5. two of the carriers went sick.