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Carrier

noun

1.

Someone whose employment involves carrying something. Synonyms: bearer, toter.

2.

A self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something.

3.

A large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings. Synonyms: aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, flattop.

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. Synonym: common carrier.

6.

A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal. Synonym: carrier wave.

7.

A man who delivers the mail. Synonyms: letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, postman.

8.

A boy who delivers newspapers. Synonym: newsboy.

9.

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

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"Carrier" Quotes from Famous Books

... on. "What sort of a man were YOU, I wonder? Were you a carrier who, having set up a team of three horses and a tilt waggon, left your home, your native hovel, for ever, and departed to cart merchandise to market? Was it on the highway that you surrendered your soul to God, or did your friends ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... Ideas are the only substantial things in the universe, and that there is a difference in the quality of ideas need not be argued. Two men of the same avoirdupois may be walking side by side on the street, but one of them may be a genius and the other a hod carrier. ...

— The Head Voice and Other Problems - Practical Talks on Singing • D. A. Clippinger

... each year gathers many million dollars worth of products for man in this country alone to say nothing of its inestimable value on the farm and especially in the orchard, where it assists in carrying pollen from blossom to blossom. It is of far greater value to man as a carrier of pollen than it is as a honey gatherer and yet under especially favorable conditions in one year a strong colony may produce between twenty-five and thirty dollars worth ...

— An Elementary Study of Insects • Leonard Haseman

... began to be heard in the square, coming from house to house, drawing nearer at each repetition. Richard paid no heed to it; he expected no letter. Yet it seemed there was one for some member of the family; the letter-carrier's regular tread ascended the five steps to the door, and then two small thunderclaps echoed through the house. There was no letter-box; Richard went to answer the knock. An envelope addressed to himself in ...

— Demos • George Gissing

... to prevent the delivery of Mr. Rathbawne's mail, both at the mills and at his house. You know what that means, don't you? One carrier interfered with in the performance of his duty is sufficient excuse for mobilizing ...

— The Lieutenant-Governor • Guy Wetmore Carryl

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