carrier
Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
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- definition someone whose employment involves carrying something
- definition a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
- definition a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
- definition 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
- definition a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
- definition a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
- definition a person who delivers the mail
- definition a boy who delivers newspapers
- definition (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which they are immune but who can pass it on to others
- definition a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
- definition (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