Carrier Synonyms

kărē-ər
A ship that carries airplanes
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. aircraft-carrier
  2. flattop
  3. escort carrier
  4. estafette
  5. attack aircraft carrier
Someone whose employment involves carrying something
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bearer
  2. toter
A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. carrier wave
  2. infectiousness
(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. immune carrier
A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. common carrier

Words Related to Carrier

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Carrier Sentence Examples

  • The rocking-bar consists of a carrier a fixed to the cradle, a rockingbar d pivoted to the carrier at e, a sight bar f carrying the sights and sighting telescope.

  • The only immaculate carrier was the Egyptian.

  • It held shipper as well as carrier, and corporation as well as its officer or agent, liable for violations of the act, and conferred upon United States courts power to employ equity processes in putting an end to discrimination.

  • Its geographical distribution is of the widest, and its rapidity of breeding, in manure and dooryard filth, so great that, as a carrier of germs of disease, especially cholera and typhoid, the house-fly is now recognized as a potent source of danger; and various sanitary regulations have been made, or precautions suggested, for getting rid of it.

  • This road serves as a carrier for the northern coal producing districts.

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