carriers

Meanings

Noun

• someone whose employment involves carrying something
• 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
• plural of carrier

Synonyms

aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, bearer, carrier, carrier wave, common carrier, flattop, immune carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, newsboy, postman, toter