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词汇 carrier
释义 carrier
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkær.i.ər/ us /ˈker.i.ɚ/

carriernoun[C] (TRANSPORT)


a person or thing that carries something搬运人,运送人;运输工具
a company that operates aircraft航空公司
used as a combining form, especially in phrases that refer to military vehicles of a type that carry other vehicles or groups of soldiers: (用作构词成分,尤用于表示军事运输工具的短语中)运载工具
an armoured troop-carrier装甲运兵车
a freight carrier运输舰
informal foraircraft carrier航空母舰(aircraft carrier的非正式说法)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Transferring and transporting objects
air freight
bear
bearer
borne
bring
budge
carry
conveyance
heft
import
light speed
manhandle
paper round
payload
pick
shunt
transference
truck
virement
wheel

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Enterprises
Air travel: aviation
Army & military vehicles

carriernoun[C] (PHONE COMPANY)


(alsophone carrier)
a company that provides mobile phone services to people so they can make calls, send messages, etc.:
You can transfer your existing mobile phone number to a new carrier.
Only your carrier limits the number of characters you can receive in text messages.
People are willing to change phone carriers in order to save a few dollars.
They used the new high-speed data networks that cell phone carriers had built.
The company is one of Japan's biggest mobile phone carriers.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enterprises
acquiree
acquirer
acquiror
agency
answering service
clicks and mortaridiom
conglomerate
consortium
est.
estate agent
financial technology
fintech
firm
org
organizational
organizationally
parent company
partner up
wholly-owned
zombie company

carriernoun[C] (BAG)


UK(alsocarrier bag)(USshopping bag)
a large plastic or paper bag with handles, used to carry things that you have bought, especially one given to you in a shop购物袋
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Bags in general
bag
bag for life
bagful
carry (something) on
doggy bag
feedbag
man bag
nosebag
packet
party bag
pencil case
polybag
pouch
self-seal
self-sealing
shopper
shopping trolley
string bag
wheelie bag
Ziploc

carriernoun[C] (SPREAD)


someone who does not suffer from a disease but has the infection or genetic fault that causes it and can give the disease to someone else: 带菌者;病毒携带者
There are an estimated 1.5 million HIV carriers in the country.据估计,这个国家有150万艾滋病毒携带者。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Passing on illness & causing disease
aerosolize
avirulent
communicability
community transmission
contact tracer
contagion
contagious
epidemic
fester
infect
infestation
interepidemic
interpandemic
mediastinum
non-communicable
skin to skinidiom
spreader
super-spreader
transferable
transmissibility

carrier | American Dictionary


carrier
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkær·i·ər/

carriernoun[C] (TRANSPORT)


a person or thing that carries or delivers something:
She’s got a job as a letter carrier.

carriernoun[C] (SPREAD)


medical
a person who can give a disease to other people but may not show any signs of having the disease

carrier | Business English


carrier
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkæriər/us
TRANSPORT
a company that transports goods or people from one place to another:
The company loses fewer drivers because it is a shorter-haul carrier whose drivers are typically away overnight rather than weeks on end.
Sioux Railway is the ninth largest rail carrier in the nation.
TRANSPORT
a company that operates aircraft:
The Dallas-based carrier will offer same-plane service with one or more stops to 27 cities.
Etihad Airways is Abu Dhabi's national carrier.
low-cost/low-fare/no-frills carrier
INSURANCE
a company or organization that provides insurance:
The company will pay $2 million of the settlement, with the rest from its insurance carrier and other parties.
COMMUNICATIONS
a company that provides a communications service such as a phone, television, or internet service:
Number portability allows you to transfer your existing cell phone number to a new carrier.
a mobile/mobile phone/cellphone carrier
In 1984 AT&T became the largest long-distance carrier.

See also


bulk carrier
common carrier
contract carrier
free carrier
limited carrier
private carrier
public carrier

Examples of carrier


carrier
Lastly, evidence suggests that apparently resistant host genotypes may sometimes be able to act as subclinical carriers of infection.
In the two implicated restaurants, the most likely mechanism of contamination was through faecal contamination of food handled by the two employees identified as carriers.
No information on incubation period was available and no carriers were identified.
Female carriers have a life expectancy of 81 years and non-carriers 83 years.
Any effect would reduce the differences between carriers and non-carriers.
Invasive disease is a rare outcome of infection and asymptomatic carriers are responsible for most transmission of these organisms.
In dynamic models of the evolution of a disease in a population it is often important to distinguish between carriers and non carriers [4].
With regard to the impact of vaccination, the model implicitly yet heuristically takes account of the distinction between carriers and noncarriers.
Alternatively, secondary transmission from carriers of the outbreak strain could be possible.
First, the presence of carriers among food vendors gives cause for close monitoring of newly diagnosed cases of typhoid and paratyphoid fever among food handlers.
Furthermore, logistic regression was carried out in order to investigate the role of the year on proportion of carriers.
The transmission routes of campylobacter infections can be divided in three categories ; waterborne, foodborne or direct contact with carriers.
Lexical words are ' the main carriers of meaning ' (55), nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
Import of mitochondrial carriers mediated by essential proteins of the intermembrane space.
In the usual concrete examples the non-empty sorts condition corresponds to the fact that the domain of the initial model has all carriers non-empty.
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Collocations withcarrier


carrier

These are words often used in combination with carrier.

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asymptomatic carrier
Most infected infants develop an asymptomatic carrier state.
bolt carrier
It uses short stroke gas piston that pushes the massive bolt carrier with rotating bolt.
From
Wikipedia

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carrier battle
The carrierbattle is lost, and the role of the carrier has been replaced by a new policy.
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