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someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier" a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business" aircraft carrier: a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings 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 a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages carrier wave: a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal mailman: a man who delivers the mail a boy who delivers newspapers (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like (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
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| carat |
a unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg karat: the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
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| caraway |
a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed leaves used sparingly in soups and stews
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| carcinogenic |
causing or tending to cause cancer; "the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals"
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| car sickness |
motion sickness experienced while traveling in a car
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