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CARRIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carrier" is a kind of...):
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
Domain category:
genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
Synonyms:
aircraft carrier; attack aircraft carrier; carrier; flattop
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("carrier" is a kind of...):
combat ship; war vessel; warship (a government ship that is available for waging war)
Meronyms (parts of "carrier"):
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; used as a runway)
Derivation:
carry (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("carrier" is a kind of...):
rack (framework for holding objects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carrier"):
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)
Derivation:
carry (bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
Example:
refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("carrier" is a kind of...):
self-propelled vehicle (a wheeled vehicle that carries in itself a means of propulsion)
Derivation:
carry (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
Synonyms:
carrier; common carrier
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("carrier" is a kind of...):
business; business concern; business organisation; business organization; concern (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carrier"):
line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)
Derivation:
carry (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)
Sense 6
Meaning:
(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
Synonyms:
carrier; immune carrier
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carrier" is a kind of...):
transmitter; vector (any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease)
immune (a person who is immune to a particular infection)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Instance hyponyms:
Mallon; Mary Mallon; Typhoid Mary (United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938))
Derivation:
carry (have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A boy who delivers newspapers
Synonyms:
carrier; newsboy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("carrier" is a kind of...):
deliverer; delivery boy; deliveryman (someone employed to make deliveries)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Someone whose employment involves carrying something
Example:
the bonds were transmitted by carrier
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("carrier" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Derivation:
carry (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)
Sense 9
Meaning:
A man who delivers the mail
Synonyms:
carrier; letter carrier; mail carrier; mailman; postman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("carrier" is a kind of...):
deliverer; delivery boy; deliveryman (someone employed to make deliveries)
Sense 10
Meaning:
A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
Synonyms:
carrier; carrier wave
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("carrier" is a kind of...):
radio emission; radio radiation; radio wave (an electromagnetic wave with a wavelength between 0.5 cm to 30,000 m)
Derivation:
carry (transmit or serve as the medium for transmission)
Sense 11
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carrier" is a kind of...):
chemical; chemical substance (material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules)
Context examples:
Monoclonal antibody HuPAM4 (mAb HuPAM4) binds to cells expressing MUC1 antigen; mAb HuPAM4 may be useful as a carrier for radioisotopes and other antineoplastic therapeutic agents.
(Monoclonal Antibody HuPAM4, NCI Thesaurus)
Semisynthetic vaccines consisting of polysaccharide antigens from microorganisms attached to protein carrier molecules.
(Conjugate Vaccine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
But the common race of horses had not so good fortune, being kept by farmers and carriers, and other mean people, who put them to greater labour, and fed them worse.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
N. meningitidis, known commonly as meningococcus, is the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis, but is also associated with other human infections, but can be commensal in the oropharynx and nasopharynx of carriers.
(Neisseria meningitidis, NCI Thesaurus)
In this vaccine, MUC1 antigen is conjugated with KLH, an immunostimulant and a hapten carrier, to enhance immune recognition.
(MUC1-KLH Conjugate Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
MUC2 protein is conjugated with KLH, an immunostimulant and a hapten carrier, to enhance immune recognition.
(MUC-2-KLH Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
This means that water, a dominant carrier of oxygen, is also expected to be overabundant in such atmospheres.
(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)
This allele, which encodes mitochondrial carrier homolog 2 protein, plays a role in mitochondrial polarization.
(MTCH2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Most HBV carriers are not indicated for antiviral therapy, so another effective way of reducing liver cancer risk needs to be developed.
(An Aspirin A Day Keep Liver Cancer Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A peptide vaccine consisting of the whole or partial beta subunit of human chorionic gonadotrophin hormone (hCG), linked to an adjuvant carrier of bacterial or viral origin, with anti-fertility activity.
(Anti-human Chorionic Gonadotropin Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
