carrier

n. one who ships; one who carries; messanger; thing that carries; aircraft carrier; shipping company; truck; steamship or vessel for carrying goods or transporting passengers; post-office worker who carries mail; person who delivers newspapers on a specific route; person (or animal) who transmits a disease to others but does not suffer from it themselves; signal transmitted over a telephone line when two computers are connected through modems (Computers); telecommunications company

Carrier has several very different meanings: in Science (physics, electronics, biology, mathematics, chemistry and other sciences)Carrier wave, a waveform suitable for modulation by an information-bearing signalCharge carrier, in physics a free (mobile, unbound) particle carrying an electric chargein mathematics, the set over which a Boolean algebra is defined is the carrier. Carrier-protein, a protein that facilitates the transport of another moleculeAsymptomatic carrier, a person who is infected with an infectious disease or carries the abnormal gene of a recessive genetic disorder, but displays no symptomsChloroorganic carrier, a group of molecules that facilitates the transport of dyes into a fiberCarrier recovery in telecommunicationsin Society or Geographythe Dakelh (known in English as the Carrier), an indigenous First Nations people of British Columbia, Canada Carrier language, the Athabaskan language of the Dakelh peopleCarrier, Oklahoma, a town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States
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Carrier /car·ri·er/ 1. one who harbors disease organisms in their body without manifest symptoms, thus acting as a distributor of infection. 2. [more]Carrier - Community and Resources

Noun
1. someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
(synonym) bearer, toter
(hypernym) traveler, traveller
(derivation) transport, carry
2. a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
(hypernym) self-propelled vehicle
(derivation) transport, carry
3. a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings
(synonym) aircraft carrier, flattop, attack aircraft carrier
(hypernym) warship, war vessel, combat ship
(part-meronym) arrester, arrester hook
(derivation) transport, carry
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
(hypernym) chemical
5. a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
(synonym) common carrier
(hypernym) business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation
(hyponym) line
(derivation) transport, carry
6. a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
(synonym) carrier wave
(hypernym) radio wave, radio emission, radio radiation
(derivation) conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel
7. a man who delivers the mail
(synonym) mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier
(hypernym) deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer
8. a boy who delivers newspapers
(synonym) newsboy
(hypernym) deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer
9. a person who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
(synonym) immune carrier
(hypernym) immune
(hyponym) Mallon, Mary Mallon, Typhoid Mary
(derivation) carry
10. a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
(hypernym) rack
(hyponym) bomb rack
(derivation) carry

n. quarryman, one who excavates stone from a quarry, quarrier