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carrier
/ˈkæɹi.ɚ/
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What does carrier mean?
noun
- A person or object that carries someone or something else.
- Ellipsis of aircraft carrier.
- A starship designed to carry starfighters
More meanings (19)
noun
- Ellipsis of carrier bag.
- A carrier pigeon.
- A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
- A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
- A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
- A certified airline.
- A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
- A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
- A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
- A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
- Part of a differential gear assembly that holds gears and their bearings.
- A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
- A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
- A charge carrier.
- A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.
- Synonym of English Carrier.
proper noun
- A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes considered to be three separate languages: Southern Carrier, Northern Carrier and Central Carrier.
- A surname.
- A small town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States; from the surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkæɹi.ɚ/
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Apparently he tossed them into the great metallic carrier which projected behind him, much as a workman’s basket hangs over his shoulder.
Our mail was delivered once a month by a carrier who made the journey in alternate stages of horseback riding and canoeing.
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I fancied, indeed, that he sometimes chuckled audibly over this reflection, but the carrier said he was only troubled with a cough.
Compare the English carrier and the short-faced tumbler, and see the wonderful difference in their beaks, entailing corresponding differences in their skulls.
But would not her navigation be materially injured by the loss of the important advantage of being her own carrier in that trade?