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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. 1noun

    One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

  2. 2noun

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

  3. 3noun

    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. 4noun

    (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. 5noun

    a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings

    Synonyms

    flattop
  6. 6noun

    a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like

  7. 7noun

    a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something

    "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"

  8. 8noun

    a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

  9. 9noun

    (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others

  10. 10noun

    a boy who delivers newspapers

    Synonyms

    newsboy
  11. 11noun

    someone whose employment involves carrying something

    "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"

    Synonyms

    bearertoter
  12. 12noun

    a man who delivers the mail

    Synonyms

    mailmanpostman
  13. 13noun

    a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal

  14. 14noun

    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

flattopnewsboybearertotermailmanpostman

Common word forms

carriers

Words from these letters

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