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Noun carrier has 10 senses
- carrier, bearer, toter - someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
--1 is a kind of traveler, traveller
- carrier - a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
--2 is a kind of self-propelled vehicle
- aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, attack aircraft carrier - a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings
--3 is a kind of warship, war vessel, combat ship
--3 has parts: arrester, arrester hook; flight deck, landing deck
- carrier - 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
--4 is a kind of chemical
- carrier, common carrier - a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
--5 is a kind of business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation
--5 has particulars: line
- carrier wave, carrier - a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
--6 is a kind of radio wave, radio emission, radio radiation
- mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier - a man who delivers the mail
--7 is a kind of deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer
- carrier, newsboy - a boy who delivers newspapers
--8 is a kind of deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer
- carrier, immune carrier - a person who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
--9 is a kind of immune; vector, transmitter
--9 has particulars: Mallon, Mary Mallon, Typhoid Mary
- carrier - a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
--10 is a kind of rack
--10 has particulars:
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