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Vinony

carrier

noun

  1. profession
  2. food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹi.ə/ / /ˈkaɹɪjə/ / /ˈkæɹi.ɚ/

name

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

noun

Etymology: From Middle English cariere, partly from carien + -ere, after Anglo-Norman carier, cariour, and partly directly from Anglo-Norman. By surface analysis, carry + -er.

  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. 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. 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. 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. 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”