carrier

carrier has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
• n.. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
• n.. 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.
• n.. (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
• n.. a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
• n.. a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
• n.. a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
• n.. a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
• n.. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
• n.. a boy who delivers newspapers
• n.. someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
• n.. a man who delivers the mail