noun. One that transports or conveys.

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

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

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

noun. An individual that carries one gene for a particular recessive trait. A carrier does not express the trait but, when mated with another carrier, can produce offspring that do.

noun. A boson, especially a gauge boson, that conveys a force or mediates an interaction between subatomic particles.

noun. undefined

noun. A carrier wave.

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

noun. An aircraft carrier.

noun. An insurance or underwriting organization.

noun. A telecommunications company.

An old spelling of career.

noun. In transportation, a system of endless traveling-chains supporting slats, trays, or buckets, used in transporting various materials or articles in bulk or in packages over short distances, as in a factory.

noun. One who or that which carries or conveys.

noun. Specifically

noun. One who for hire undertakes the conveyance of goods or persons.

noun. A carrier-pigeon.

noun. One who manages or arranges affairs.

noun. In machinery: A piece of iron fixed by a setscrew on the end of a shaft or spindle to be turned in a lathe, or to a mandrel on which a round object is driven for the purpose of being turned; a lathe-dog. A projection in the center-chuck or face-plate drives the carrier around.

noun. The distributing-roller of a carding-machine.

noun. A roller between the drum and the feeding-rollers of a scribbling-machine, for spinning wool.

noun. In a braiding-machine, a spool- or bobbin-holder which follows in a curved path intersecting the paths of other bobbins, and so lays up the thread into a braid.

noun. A hoist, as the mold-carrier in sugar-works.

noun. (f ) Part of the breech-action of a magazine-gun. See carrier-ring.

noun. An oyster that will bear transportation well.

noun. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

noun. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.

noun. That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.

noun. a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home.

noun. a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as almost to conceal it.

noun. See under Common, a.

noun. A person or object that carries someone or something else.

noun. A carrier pigeon, a newspaperese term (misnomer) for a homing pigeon, racing pigeon, racing homer, homer.

noun. An Old English carrier pigeon or Old English carrier (the "King of the Doos").

noun. A person or company in the business of shipping freight.

noun. A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease.

noun. A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.

noun. A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.

noun. An inert material added to an active ingredient to aid in the application and/or the effectiveness of active ingredient.

noun. A certified airline.

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

noun. a boy who delivers newspapers

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

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

noun. someone whose employment involves carrying something

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

noun. a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like

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 man who delivers the mail

"-- The immense superiority of the Transcontinental over any other road, as a grain carrier, is due to the fact that a train can travel from the Yellowhead Pass to tide water at Quebec without encountering any adverse grades greater than four-tenths of one per cent., or 21 feet to the mile."

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aircraft  cargo  craft  cruiser  customer  

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