carrier
Meanings
- someone whose employment involves carrying something;
- "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
- a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something;
- "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
- a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
- 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
- a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
- a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
- a man who delivers the mail
- a boy who delivers newspapers
- (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
- a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
- (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
- CARRIER n pl. -S one that carries
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
carrier is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordcarrier is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
carrier is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
carrier is a valid Words With Friends word