English to English
carrier
('k/&/r/i//@/r
)
noun (n)
- a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something(noun.artifact)Example:
Refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business.
source: wordnet30 - a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- 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(noun.substance)source: wordnet30
- a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages(noun.group)source: wordnet30
- a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal(noun.phenomenon)source: wordnet30
- a man who delivers the mail(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- (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(noun.animal)source: wordnet30
- One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.(noun)source: webster1913