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carrier

Noun

∙ A person or object that carries someone or something else.
∙ A carrier pigeon, a newspaperese term (misnomer) for a homing pigeon, racing pigeon, racing homer, homer.
∙ An Old English carrier pigeon or Old English carrier (the "King of the Doos").
∙ A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
∙ A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
∙ A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
∙ A certified airline.
∙ That which drives or carries. engineering
- ∙ A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
- ∙ A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
- ∙ A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
∙ A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction. chemistry
∙ A person or organism that has inherited a genetic trait, mutation or infectious disease, but displays no symptoms. genetics, pathology

Carrier

Proper noun

∙ A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes considered to be three separate languages: Southern Carrier, Northern Carrier and Central Carrier.

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