carrier – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: traveler,
combat ship,
war vessel,
chemical,
business concern,
concern,
radio emission,
radio wave,
delivery boy,
immune,
vector,
being
carrier
n.
one who ships; one who carries; messanger; thing that carries; aircraft carrier; shipping company; truck; steamship or vessel for carrying goods or transporting passengers; post-office worker who carries mail; person who delivers newspapers on a specific route; person (or animal) who transmits a disease to others but does not suffer from it themselves; signal transmitted over a telephone line when two computers are connected through modems (Computers); telecommunications company
Carrier
Carrier may refer to:
Science and technology
- Asymptomatic carrier, an organism infected with an infectious disease agent, but displaying no symptoms
- Carrier protein, a protein that facilitates the transport of another molecule
- Carrier recovery in telecommunications
- Carrier set, the underlying set of an algebraic structure
- Carrier signal, a waveform suitable for modulation by an information-bearing signal
- Carrier, a free instant messaging client based on Pidgin
- Catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction
- Charge carrier, an unbound particle carrying an electric charge
- Disease carrier (disambiguation) in medicine
- Genetic carrier, an organism that has inherited a genetic trait or mutation, but displaying no symptoms
- Gestational carrier, a surrogate mother
- Lathe carrier, a device that transfers motion to a workpiece
carrier
Noun
1. someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
(synonym) bearer, toter
(hypernym) traveler, traveller
(derivation) transport, carry
2. a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
(hypernym) self-propelled vehicle
(derivation) transport, carry
3. a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings
(synonym) aircraft carrier, flattop, attack aircraft carrier
(hypernym) warship, war vessel, combat ship
(part-meronym) arrester, arrester hook
(derivation) transport, carry
4. 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
(hypernym) chemical
5. a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
(synonym) common carrier
(hypernym) business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation
(hyponym) line
(derivation) transport, carry
6. a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
(synonym) carrier wave
(hypernym) radio wave, radio emission, radio radiation
(derivation) conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel
7. a man who delivers the mail
(synonym) mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier
(hypernym) deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer
8. a boy who delivers newspapers
(synonym) newsboy
(hypernym) deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer
9. a person who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
(synonym) immune carrier
(hypernym) immune
(hyponym) Mallon, Mary Mallon, Typhoid Mary
(derivation) carry
10. a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
(hypernym) rack
(hyponym) bomb rack
(derivation) carry
carrier
nm.
quarryman, one who excavates stone from a quarry, quarrier
carrier
n.
carrier, aircraft carrier
