carrier
nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈkaɹɪjə//
- United States//ˈkæɹi.ɚ//
- Australia//ˈkæɹi.ə//
- Scotland//ˈkaɾe.əɾ//
- //ˈkɛɹi.ɚ//
A person or object that carries someone or something else.
noun
- 1
A person or object that carries someone or something else.
armored personnel carrier
The air which is but […] a carrier of the sounds.
- 2
A person or object that carries someone or something else. Ellipsis of aircraft carrier. A starship designed to carry starfighters
And each was hideously powerful: an attack carrier could destroy a world, a force of cruisers and spinship destroyers could destroy a sun.
The first carrier completely ignored us, sir! Blew through the Malta’s debris field and headed straight for Earth!
- 3
A carrier pigeon.
- 4
A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.
- 5
A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
- 6
A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
- 7
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.”
- 8
That which drives or carries. A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
- 9
That which drives or carries. A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
- 10
That which drives or carries. A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
- 11
That which drives or carries. A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
- 12
That which drives or carries. Part of a differential gear assembly that holds gears and their bearings.
- 13
A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
- 14
A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
- 15
A charge carrier.
- 16
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
- 17
Variant of aircraft carrierA person or object that carries someone or something else. Ellipsis of aircraft carrier.
Two weeks later, I reported to Pensacola, Florida, for duty aboard CV-48, the USS Saipan, a boxy old carrier the Navy retired from fleet duty and reassigned for use in training.
- 18
Variant of carrier bagA person or object that carries someone or something else. Ellipsis of carrier bag.
Etymology
From Middle English cariere, partly from carien + -ere, after Anglo-Norman carier, cariour, and partly directly from Anglo-Norman. By surface analysis, carry + -er.
Forms
- plural
- carriers
carrier · A person or object that carries someone or something else.
Carrier · A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes…Carrington · A placename: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan…Carroll · A surname from Irish derived from the Irish Ó Cearbhaill.