carrier

carrier is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
2. noun. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. (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
5. noun. a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings

   Synonyms: flattop

6. noun. a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
7. noun. a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something

   "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"

8. noun. a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
9. noun. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
10. noun. a boy who delivers newspapers

    Synonyms: newsboy

11. noun. someone whose employment involves carrying something

    "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"

    Synonyms: bearer, toter

12. noun. a man who delivers the mail

    Synonyms: mailman, postman

13. noun. a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
14. noun. 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

Synonyms

flattop, newsboy, bearer, toter, mailman, postman

Common word forms

carriers

Words from these letters

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