carrier

noun

1. A person or object that carries someone or something else.

   “armored personnel carrier”

   “The air which is but […] a carrier of the sounds.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)A person or object that carries someone or something else.

   “Two weeks later, I reported to Pensacola, Florida, for duty aboard CV-48, the USS Saipan, a boxy old carrier the Navy retired from fleet duty and reassigned for use in training.”

3. (broadly)A person or object that carries someone or something else.

   “And each was hideously powerful: an attack carrier could destroy a world, a force of cruisers and spinship destroyers could destroy a sun.”

   “The first carrier completely ignored us, sir! Blew through the Malta’s debris field and headed straight for Earth!”

4. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)A person or object that carries someone or something else.
5. A carrier pigeon.
6. A person or company in the business of shipping freight.

   “The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.”

7. A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
8. A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
9. A certified airline.

   “Southwest, the nation’s largest domestic carrier, is installing seats with less cushion and thinner materials — a svelte model known in the business as “slim-line.””

10. That which drives or carries.
11. That which drives or carries.
12. That which drives or carries.
13. That which drives or carries.
14. (especially)That which drives or carries.
15. A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
16. A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
17. A charge carrier.
18. A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.

    “Linseed oil is often used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting.”

    “inert carrier gas”

19. Synonym of English Carrier.

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes considered to be three separate languages: Southern Carrier, Northern Carrier and Central Carrier.
2. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
3. (countable, uncountable)A small town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States; from the surname.