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


Scrabble Score: 9

carrier is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

carrier 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