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English

Etymology

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. A person or object that carry|carries someone or something else.
  2. : aircraft carrier
  3. : armored personnel carrier
  4. A company in the business of shipping freight.
  5. A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease.
  6. A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
  7. A mobile network operator; wireless carrier


Derived terms


Translations

  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|drager|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Träger|m}}
  • Finnish:

ar:carrier fr:carrier hu:carrier ru:carrier fi:carrier ta:carrier te:carrier vi:carrier tr:carrier zh:carrier

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Carrier \Car"ri*er\, n. [From Carry.]
1. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
[1913 Webster]

The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds.
--Bacon.
[1913 Webster]

2. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry
goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
[1913 Webster]

The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich
manufactures. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]

3. (Mach.) 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.
[1913 Webster]

Carrier pigeon (Zool.), a variety of the domestic pigeon
used to convey letters from a distant point to to its
home.

Carrier shell (Zool.), a univalve shell of the genus
Phorus; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones
and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as
almost to conceal it.

Common carrier (Law.) See under Common, a.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet carrier
n 1: someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the
bonds were transmitted by carrier" [syn: bearer, toter]
2: a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to
carry something; "refrigerated carriers have
revolutionized the grocery business"
3: a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck
for take-offs and landings [syn: aircraft carrier, flattop,
attack aircraft carrier]
4: 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
5: a person or firm in the business of transporting people or
goods or messages [syn: common carrier]
6: a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a
signal [syn: carrier wave]
7: a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman, postman, {mail
carrier}, letter carrier]
8: a boy who delivers newspapers [syn: newsboy]
9: a person who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who
can pass it on to others [syn: immune carrier]
10: a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis
or the like
Moby Dictionary
Aquarius , Ganymede , Hebe , Hermes , Iris , Mercury , Paul Revere ,
Pheidippides , advocate , aerial infection , airborne infection ,
aircraft , aircraft carrier , alpenstock , arm , athletic supporter ,
back , backbone , backing , bandeau , bearer , bheesty ,
biological vector , bra , brace , bracer , bracket , brassiere , busboy ,
buttress , caddie , cane , cargo handler , carriage , carrier pigeon ,
carrier wave , carter , cervix , commissionaire , common carrier ,
communicability , contagion , contagiousness , contamination ,
conveyance , conveyer , coolie , corset , courier , crook , crutch ,
cryptogenic infection , cupbearer , diplomatic courier ,
direct infection , drayman , droplet infection , dust infection ,
electric wave , electromagnetic wave , emissary , envoy , epidemiology ,
estafette , express , expressman , flattop , foundation garment ,
freighter , fulcrum , girdle , go-between , ground wave , gun bearer ,
guy , guywire , hand infection , hauler , hertzian wave ,
high-frequency wave , homer , homing pigeon , indirect infection ,
infection , infectiousness , internuncio , jock , jockstrap ,
letter carrier , litter-bearer , long wave , low-frequency wave ,
mail car , mail coach , mail packet , mail train , mail truck , mailer ,
mailplane , mainstay , maintainer , mast , mechanical vector ,
medium of transportation , message-bearer , messenger , microwave ,
neck , nuncio , packet boat , phytogenic infection , pigeon post ,
porter , post , post boat , post car , post coach , post-horse ,
post-office car , postboy , poster , postrider , primary infection ,
prop , pyogenic infection , radio wave , railway mail car , redcap ,
reinforce , reinforcement , reinforcer , rest , resting place , rigging ,
runner , seaplane carrier , secondary infection , shield-bearer ,
shipper , shortwave , shoulder , shroud , sky wave , skycap , spine ,
sprit , staff , standing rigging , stave , stay , stevedore , stick ,
stiffener , strengthener , stretcher-bearer , subclinical infection ,
support , supporter , sustainer , taint , the Water Bearer ,
transmitter , transporter , truck driver , trucker , upholder , vector ,
vehicle , virus , wagoner , walking stick , water boy , water carrier ,
waterborne infection , watercraft , wavelength , zoogenic infection


Carrier, OK (town, FIPS 12200) Location: 36.47675 N, 98.01438 W Population (1990): 171 (74 housing units) Area: 41.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73727
Moby Dictionary 77
Housing Units (2000): 30
Land area (2000): 1.216976 sq. miles (3.151954 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.216976 sq. miles (3.151954 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12200
Located within: Oklahoma (OK) , FIPS 40
Location: 36.476654 N , 98.020572 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73727
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Carrier , OK
Carrier
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