carrier - Similar and Opposite Words

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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

Synonyms

• carrier

More generic

• being
• organism

Noun

a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings

Synonyms

• aircraft carrier
• attack aircraft carrier
• carrier
• flattop

More generic

• combat ship
• war vessel
• warship

Related

• arrester
• arrester hook
• flight deck
• landing deck

Noun

a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like

Synonyms

• carrier

More generic

• rack

More specific

• bomb rack
• luggage carrier
• luggage rack
• roof rack
• ski rack

Noun

a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something

Synonyms

• carrier

More generic

• self-propelled vehicle

Noun

a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

Synonyms

• carrier
• common carrier

More generic

• business
• business concern
• business organisation
• business organization
• concern

More specific

• line

Noun

(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

More generic

• immune
• transmitter
• vector

Noun

a boy who delivers newspapers

Synonyms

• carrier
• newsboy

More generic

• deliverer
• delivery boy
• deliveryman

Noun

someone whose employment involves carrying something

Synonyms

• bearer
• carrier
• toter

More generic

• traveler
• traveller

Noun

a man who delivers the mail

Synonyms

• carrier
• letter carrier
• mail carrier
• mailman
• postman

More generic

• deliverer
• delivery boy
• deliveryman

Noun

a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal

Synonyms

• carrier
• carrier wave

More generic

• radio emission
• radio radiation
• radio wave

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

Synonyms

• carrier

More generic

• chemical
• chemical substance

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