carrier
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
someone whose employment involves carrying something
the bonds were transmitted by carrier
Types & categories
- traveler hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business
Types & categories
- self-propelled vehicle hypernym
Related & opposite
- carry derivation
Sense 3 noun
a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
Types & categories
- warship hypernym
Parts & wholes
- arrester part meronym
- flight deck part meronym
Related & opposite
- carry derivation
Sense 4 noun
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
Types & categories
- chemical hypernym
Sense 5 noun
a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- carry derivation
Sense 6 noun
a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
Types & categories
- radio wave hypernym
Related & opposite
- channel derivation
Sense 7 noun
a man who delivers the mail
Types & categories
- deliveryman hypernym
Sense 8 noun
a boy who delivers newspapers
Types & categories
- deliveryman hypernym
Sense 9 noun
(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
Types & categories
- transmitter hypernym
- immune hypernym
- Mallon instance hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 10 noun
a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
Types & categories
- rack hypernym
- bomb rack hyponym
- luggage carrier hyponym
- luggage rack hyponym
- ski rack hyponym
Related & opposite
- carry derivation
Sense 11 noun
(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
Types & categories
- organism hypernym
Related & opposite
- genetics domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bear |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | carry |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lug |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | traveler |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | carry |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | self-propelled vehicle |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | carry |
| 3 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | arrester |
| 3 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | flight deck |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | warship |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | chemical |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | carry |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | business |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | line |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | channel |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | radio wave |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | deliveryman |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | deliveryman |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | carry |
| 9 | domain topic | Related & opposite | medicine |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | transmitter |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | immune |
| 9 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Mallon |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | carry |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | rack |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | bomb rack |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | luggage carrier |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | luggage rack |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | ski rack |
| 11 | domain topic | Related & opposite | genetics |
| 11 | hypernym | Types & categories | organism |