CARRIER
Definition of CARRIER
- (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; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
- (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