Thesaurus: carrier

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1. n. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
2. n. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
3. 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.
4. n. someone whose employment involves carrying something
5. n. a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
6. n. a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
7. n. 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
8. n. a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
9. n. a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
10. n. a person who delivers the mail
11. n. a boy who delivers newspapers
12. n. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which they are immune but who can pass it on to others