carrier

Definitions of carrier in various dictionaries:

noun - someone whose employment involves carrying something

noun - a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something

noun - a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings

noun - 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 - a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

noun - a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal

noun - a man who delivers the mail

noun - a boy who delivers newspapers

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

noun - a rack attached to a vehicle

noun - (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele

One that transports or conveys: baggage carriers; a message carrier.

One, such as a person, a business, or an organization, that deals in the transport of passengers or goods.

A mechanism or device by which something is conveyed or conducted.

A person or an animal that shows no symptoms of a disease but harbors the infectious agent of that disease and is capable of transmitting it to others.

An individual that carries one gene for a particular recessive trait.

Electronics.

A carrier wave.

A charge-carrying entity, especially an electron or a hole in a semiconductor.

An aircraft carrier.

A telecommunications company.

verb - to convey from one place to another