| 释义 |
Noun: carrier kareeu(r)- Someone whose employment involves carrying something
"the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
- bearer, toter - A self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
"refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business" - A large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
- aircraft carrier, flattop [US], attack aircraft 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
- A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
- common carrier - A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
- carrier wave - A man who delivers the mail
- mailman [N. Amer], postman, mail carrier [N. Amer], letter carrier [N. Amer], postie [Brit] - A boy who delivers newspapers
- newsboy - (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
- immune carrier - A rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
- (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
Derived forms: carriers See also: carry Type of: being, business, business concern, business organisation [Brit], business organization, chemical, chemical substance, combat ship, concern, deliverer, delivery boy, deliveryman, immune, organism, rack, radio emission, radio radiation, radio wave, self-propelled vehicle, transmitter, traveler [US], traveller [Brit, Cdn], vector, war vessel, warship Encyclopedia: Carrier, Mark Carrier Carrier, Oklahoma Carrier, OK |