亚洲网紅露点

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carrier

[ kar-ee-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that carries.
  2. an employee of the post office who carries mail.
  3. a person who delivers newspapers, magazines, etc., on a particular route.
  4. Transportation.
    1. an individual or company, as a railroad or steamship line, engaged in transporting passengers or goods for profit.
  5. Insurance. a company that acts or functions as an underwriter or insurer.
  6. a frame, usually of metal, attached to a vehicle for carrying skis, luggage, etc., as on top of an automobile or station wagon; rack.
  7. Immunology. an individual harboring specific pathogenic organisms who, though often immune to the agent harbored, may transmit the disease to others.
  8. Genetics.
    1. an individual possessing an unexpressed, recessive trait.
    2. the bearer of a defective gene.
  9. Also called carrier wave. Radio. the wave whose amplitude, frequency, or phase is to be varied or modulated to transmit a signal.
  10. Machinery. a mechanism by which something is carried or moved.
  11. Chemistry. a catalytic agent that brings about a transfer of an element or group of atoms from one compound to another.
  12. Also called charge carrier. Physics. any of the mobile electrons or holes in a metal or semiconductor that enable it to conduct electrical charge.
  13. Physical Chemistry. a usually inactive substance that acts as a vehicle for an active substance.
  14. Painting. base 1( def 16b ).


carrier

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/ 藞办忙谤瑟蓹 /

noun

  1. a person, thing, or organization employed to carry goods, passengers, etc
  2. a mechanism by which something is carried or moved, such as a device for transmitting rotation from the faceplate of a lathe to the workpiece
  3. pathol another name for vector
  4. pathol a person or animal that, without having any symptoms of a disease, is capable of transmitting it to others
  5. Also calledcharge carrier physics an electron, ion, or hole that carries the charge in a conductor or semiconductor
  6. short for carrier wave
  7. chem
    1. the inert solid on which a dyestuff is adsorbed in forming a lake
    2. a substance, such as kieselguhr or asbestos, used to support a catalyst
    3. an inactive substance containing a radioisotope used in radioactive tracing
    4. an inert gas used to transport the sample through a gas-chromatography column
    5. a catalyst that effects the transfer of an atom or group from one molecule to another
  8. a breed of domestic fancy pigeon having a large walnut-shaped wattle over the beak; a distinct variety of pigeon from the homing or carrier pigeon See also carrier pigeon
  9. a US name for roof rack
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Carrier

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/ 藞办忙谤瑟蓹 /

noun

  1. a member of an Athapaskan Native North American people of British Columbia
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

carrier

  1. A person, animal, or plant that serves as a host for a pathogen and can transmit it to others, but is immune to it. Mosquitoes are carriers of malaria.
  2. An organism that carries a gene for a trait but does not show the trait itself. Carriers can produce offspring that express the trait by mating with another carrier of the same gene.
  3. See more at recessive
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 颈苍路迟别谤路肠补谤路谤颈路别谤 noun
  • 苍辞苍路肠补谤路谤颈路别谤 noun
  • 蝉耻路辫别谤路肠补谤路谤颈路别谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of carrier1

Middle English word dating back to 1350鈥1400; carry, -er 1
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AT&T filed an application last year with the California Public Utilities Commission in an effort to rid itself of its obligation as a carrier of last resort.

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Within the updated report, the Postal Service stated that the number of mail collected through its post offices and by carriers on their routes has sharply declined over the last decade.

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The US now has two aircraft carriers in the region.

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Its main military base, featuring concrete blast walls, watch and communication towers and space for armoured personnel carriers to move inside, is much more developed than the smaller outposts around Sergele.

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Up to 24 of the latest F-35B stealth jets will join the carrier as it leads a multi-national fleet of warships to 40 countries across the Mediterranean, Middle East, south-east Asia, Japan and Australia.

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