carrier
nounEtymology
From Middle English cariere, partly from carien + -ere, after Anglo-Norman carier, cariour, and partly directly from Anglo-Norman. By surface analysis, carry + -er.
- derived from carier,cariour
- inherited from cariere
Definitions
A person or object that carries someone or something else.
- armored personnel carrier
- The air which is but […] a carrier of the sounds.
A carrier pigeon.
A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
- The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.
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A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
A mobile network operator
A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
A certified airline.
- Southwest, the nation’s largest domestic carrier, is installing seats with less cushion and thinner materials — a svelte model known in the business as “slim-line.”
That which drives or carries.
A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to…
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.
- Linseed oil is often used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting.
- inert carrier gas
A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes considered to be three…
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
A small town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States; from the surname.
Synonym of English Carrier.
The neighborhood
- neighborair carrier
- neighboraircraft carrier
- neighborairship carrier
- neighboramalgam carrier
- neighborarmored personnel carrier
- neighborarmoured personnel carrier
- neighborbaby carrier
- neighborbag-carrier
- neighborball carrier
- neighborballoon carrier
- neighborbanner carrier
- neighborbattlecarrier
Derived
anticarrier, ASW carrier, biocarrier, carrier cycle, carrier hotel, carrier screening, carrier set, carrier shell, carriership, crude carrier, immunocarrier, intercarrier, macrocarrier, megacarrier, microcarrier, multicarrier, nanocarrier, noncarrier, OBO carrier, ore-bulk-oil carrier, phosphocarrier, photocarrier, subcarrier, supercarrier
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at carrier. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at carrier. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at carrier
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA