CARRIER

Definition of CARRIER

  1. (noun)someone whose employment involves carrying something
  2. (noun)a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
  3. (noun)a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
  4. (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
  5. (noun)a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
  6. (noun)a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
  7. (noun)a man who delivers the mail
  8. (noun)a boy who delivers newspapers
  9. (noun)(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
  10. (noun)a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
  11. (noun)(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