CARRIER
\kˈaɹɪə], \kˈaɹɪə], \k_ˈa_ɹ_ɪ__ə]\
Definitions of CARRIER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings
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someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
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a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
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a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
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a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
By Princeton University
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a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings
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someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
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a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
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a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
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One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
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That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
By Oddity Software
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One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
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One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
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That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
By Noah Webster.
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An individual having different alleles at one or more loci in homologous chromosome segments.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Vector, bacilli-carrier, a person in apparent health who is infected with some pathogenic organism to which he is himself, for the time being at least, immune but which, when accidentally transferred to another, may produce an attack of the specific disease.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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See carry.
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One who; to carry away, in naval language, to break a spar; to part a rope; to carry off, to kill; to bear away; to carry on, to promote; to help forward; to carry out, fully to accomplish; to put into execution; to carry through, to succeed by perseverance; carrier-pigeon, a variety of the pigeon employed for carrying letters.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A person who harbors virulent bacteria or protozoa long after his apparent recovery from the disease, or even without having developed the special disease,
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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