ˈbɛəɹə ˈbɛɹɚ ˈkæ.ɹɪ.ə ˈkæ.ɹɪ.ɚ ˈkæ.ɹɪ.ə weɪv ˈkæ.ɹɪ.ɚ weɪv (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 a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which they are immune but who can pass it on to others a boy who delivers newspapers someone whose employment involves carrying something the bonds were transmitted by carrier a person who delivers the mail a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal 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