| Sounds | kae'riyer; keh'riyer | |
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| Rhymes | anterior ... worrier: 48 rhymes with iyer... | |
| Meaning | someone whose employment involves carrying something. | |
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| Example | "the bonds were transmitted by carrier" | |
| Synonyms | bearer, toter | |
| Broader | traveler, traveller | A person who changes location |
| Spanish | distribuidor, mensajero, portador, porteador, recadero, repartidor, toter, transportista | |
| Catalan | portador, toter, transportista | |
| Verbs | carry | move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body |
| Meaning | A self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed / designed specifically to carry something. | |
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| Example | "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business" | |
| Broader | self-propelled vehicle | A wheeled vehicle that carries in itself a means of propulsion |
| Spanish | carro | |
| Verbs | carry | move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body |
| Meaning | A large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings. | |
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| Synonyms | aircraft carrier, flattop, attack aircraft carrier | |
| Parts | arrester, arrester hook | A restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier |
| flight deck, landing deck | The upper deck of an aircraft carrier | |
| Broader | warship, war vessel, combat ship | A government ship that is available for waging war |
| Spanish | portaaviones | |
| Catalan | portaavions | |
| Verbs | carry | move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Broader | chemical, chemical substance | Material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules |
| Spanish | portador | |
| Catalan | portador | |
| Meaning | A person or firm in the business of transporting / transporting people or goods or messages. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | common carrier | |
| Narrower | line | A commercial organization serving as a common carrier |
| Broader | business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation | A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it |
| Spanish | empresa de transportes | |
| Catalan | empresa de transports | |
| Verbs | carry | move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body |
| Meaning | A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal. | |
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| Synonym | carrier wave | |
| Broader | radio wave, radio emission, radio radiation | An electromagnetic wave with a wavelength between 0.5 cm to 30,000 m |
| Spanish | portadora, portador | |
| Catalan | ona portadora, portadora, portador | |
| Verbs | carry | transmit or serve as the medium for transmission |
| Meaning | A man who delivers the mail / mail. | |
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| Synonyms | mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier | |
| Broader | deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer | someone employed to make deliveries |
| Spanish | cartero, correo | |
| Catalan | carter, correu | |
| Meaning | A boy who delivers newspapers. | |
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| Synonym | newsboy | |
| Broader | deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer | someone employed to make deliveries |
| Spanish | repartidor de periódicos | |
| Meaning | (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others. | |
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| Synonym | immune carrier | |
| Category | medicine, medical specialty | The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
| Instances | Mallon, Mary Mallon, Typhoid Mary | United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938) |
| Broader | immune | A person who is immune to a particular infection |
| vector, transmitter | Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | |
| Spanish | portadora, portador | |
| Catalan | portadora, portador | |
| Verbs | carry | have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence |
| Meaning | A rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like. | |
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| Narrower | bomb rack | A device on an aircraft for carrying bombs |
| luggage carrier | carrier (as behind a bicycle seat) for luggage | |
| luggage rack, roof rack | carrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car | |
| ski rack | A carrier for holding skis on top of a vehicle | |
| Broader | rack | framework for holding objects |
| Spanish | portaequipajes | |
| Catalan | portaequipatges | |
| Verbs | carry | bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of |
| Meaning | (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. | |
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| Category | genetics, genetic science | The branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms |
| Broader | organism, being | A living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently |
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