| carriage | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. carriage, coach, passenger car | a railcar where passengers ride. |
| ~ railcar, railroad car, railway car, car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad.; "three cars had jumped the rails" |
| ~ buffet car, dining car, dining compartment, diner | a passenger car where food is served in transit. |
| ~ nonsmoking car, nonsmoker | a passenger car for passengers who want to avoid tobacco smoke. |
| ~ chair car, drawing-room car, palace car, parlor car, parlour car | a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs. |
| ~ passenger train | a train that carries passengers. |
| ~ pullman, pullman car | luxurious passenger car; for day or night travel. |
| ~ sleeping car, wagon-lit, sleeper | a passenger car that has berths for sleeping. |
| ~ smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartment, smoker | a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. carriage, equipage, rig | a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses. |
| ~ axletree | a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve. |
| ~ barouche | a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top. |
| ~ brougham | light carriage; pulled by a single horse. |
| ~ buckboard | an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; has a seat attached to a flexible board between the two axles. |
| ~ buggy, roadster | a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse. |
| ~ cabriolet, cab | small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood. |
| ~ caroche | a luxurious carriage suitable for nobility in the 16th and 17th century. |
| ~ shay, chaise | a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse. |
| ~ chariot | a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage. |
| ~ clarence | a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers. |
| ~ coach-and-four, four-in-hand, coach | a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver. |
| ~ droshky, drosky | an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia. |
| ~ gharry | a horse-drawn carriage in India. |
| ~ gig | small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood. |
| ~ hackney, hackney carriage, hackney coach | a carriage for hire. |
| ~ hansom, hansom cab | a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers. |
| ~ horse-drawn vehicle | a wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses. |
| ~ landau | a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately. |
| ~ post chaise | closed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used to transport passengers and mail. |
| ~ rumble | a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage. |
| ~ stanhope | a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat. |
| ~ surrey | a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats. |
| ~ trap | a light two-wheeled carriage. |
| ~ troika | a Russian carriage pulled by three horses abreast. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. bearing, carriage, posture | characteristic way of bearing one's body.; "stood with good posture" |
| ~ bodily property | an attribute of the body. |
| ~ manner of walking, walk | manner of walking.; "he had a funny walk" |
| ~ slouch | a stooping carriage in standing and walking. |
| ~ gracefulness | beautiful carriage. |
| ~ clumsiness, awkwardness | the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. carriage | a machine part that carries something else. |
| ~ lathe | machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool. |
| ~ mechanism | device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function. |
| ~ typewriter | hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time. |
| ~ typewriter carriage | a carriage for carrying a sheet of paper. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller | a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around. |
| ~ bassinet | a perambulator that resembles a bassinet. |
| ~ wheeled vehicle | a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people.; "the oldest known wheeled vehicles were found in Sumer and Syria and date from around 3500 BC" |
| carrier | | |
| n. (person) | 1. bearer, carrier, toter | someone whose employment involves carrying something.; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier" |
| ~ traveler, traveller | a person who changes location. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. carrier | a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something.; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business" |
| ~ self-propelled vehicle | a wheeled vehicle that carries in itself a means of propulsion. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop | a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings. |
| ~ arrester, arrester hook | a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. |
| ~ flight deck, landing deck | the upper deck of an aircraft carrier; used as a runway. |
| ~ combat ship, war vessel, warship | a government ship that is available for waging war. |
| n. (substance) | 4. carrier | 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. |
| ~ chemical, chemical substance | material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules. |
| n. (group) | 5. carrier, common carrier | a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages. |
| ~ line | a commercial organization serving as a common carrier. |
| ~ business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern | a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it.; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" |
| n. (phenomenon) | 6. carrier, carrier wave | a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal. |
| ~ radio emission, radio radiation, radio wave | an electromagnetic wave with a wavelength between 0.5 cm to 30,000 m. |
| n. (person) | 7. carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, postman | a man who delivers the mail. |
| ~ delivery boy, deliveryman, deliverer | someone employed to make deliveries. |
| n. (person) | 8. carrier, newsboy | a boy who delivers newspapers. |
| ~ delivery boy, deliveryman, deliverer | someone employed to make deliveries. |
| n. (person) | 9. carrier, immune carrier | (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others. |
| ~ medical specialty, medicine | the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques. |
| ~ transmitter, vector | any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease.; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects" |
| ~ immune | a person who is immune to a particular infection. |
| ~ mallon, mary mallon, typhoid mary | United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938). |
| n. (artifact) | 10. carrier | a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like. |
| ~ bomb rack | a device on an aircraft for carrying bombs. |
| ~ luggage carrier | carrier (as behind a bicycle seat) for luggage. |
| ~ luggage rack, roof rack | carrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car. |
| ~ rack | framework for holding objects. |
| ~ ski rack | a carrier for holding skis on top of a vehicle. |
| n. (animal) | 11. carrier | (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. |
| ~ organism, being | a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently. |
| ~ genetic science, genetics | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms. |
| deliver | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. deliver, present | deliver (a speech, oration, or idea).; "The commencement speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed the students" |
| ~ mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter | express in speech.; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" |
| ~ speechify | make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality.; "These ministers speechify on every occasion" |
| v. (contact) | 2. deliver | bring to a destination, make a delivery.; "our local super market delivers" |
| ~ fetch, bring, get, convey | go or come after and bring or take back.; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" |
| ~ misdeliver | deliver to the wrong address. |
| ~ swear out, process, serve | deliver a warrant or summons to someone.; "He was processed by the sheriff" |
| ~ unload, drop off, put down, set down, discharge, drop | leave or unload.; "unload the cargo"; "drop off the passengers at the hotel" |
| ~ consign | send to an address. |
| v. (possession) | 3. deliver, fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in | to surrender someone or something to another.; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money" |
| ~ hand, pass on, turn over, pass, reach, give | place into the hands or custody of.; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" |
| ~ bail | deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period. |
| ~ give away | formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride by her father. |
| v. (social) | 4. deliver, rescue | free from harm or evil. |
| ~ salvage, salve, save, relieve | save from ruin, destruction, or harm. |
| ~ reprieve | relieve temporarily. |
| ~ bring through, carry through, pull through, save | bring into safety.; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack" |
| v. (social) | 5. deliver, deport, extradite | hand over to the authorities of another country.; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there" |
| ~ expel, kick out, throw out | force to leave or move out.; "He was expelled from his native country" |
| ~ repatriate | send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees. |
| v. (communication) | 6. deliver, render, return | pass down.; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment" |
| ~ communicate, pass along, put across, pass on, pass | transmit information.; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news" |
| v. (communication) | 7. deliver | utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.).; "The students delivered a cry of joy" |
| ~ let loose, let out, utter, emit | express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words).; "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand" |
| v. (social) | 8. deliver, redeem, save | save from sins. |
| ~ organized religion, religion, faith | an institution to express belief in a divine power.; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him" |
| v. (possession) | 9. deliver, drive home | carry out or perform.; "deliver an attack"; "deliver a blow"; "The boxer drove home a solid left" |
| ~ give | cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense.; "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold" |
| ~ land | deliver (a blow).; "He landed several blows on his opponent's head" |
| v. (possession) | 10. cede, deliver, give up, surrender | relinquish possession or control over.; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in" |
| ~ gift, present, give | give as a present; make a gift of.; "What will you give her for her birthday?" |
| ~ yield up | surrender, as a result of pressure or force. |
| ~ sell | give up for a price or reward.; "She sold her principles for a successful career" |
| ~ sign away, sign over | formally assign ownership of.; "She signed away her rights" |
| v. (contact) | 11. deliver, pitch | throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball.; "The pitcher delivered the ball" |
| ~ throw | propel through the air.; "throw a frisbee" |
| v. (body) | 12. bear, birth, deliver, give birth, have | cause to be born.; "My wife had twins yesterday!" |
| ~ conceive | become pregnant; undergo conception.; "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day" |
| ~ twin | give birth to twins. |
| ~ drop | give birth; used for animals.; "The cow dropped her calf this morning" |
| ~ foal | give birth to a foal.; "the mare foaled" |
| ~ cub | give birth to cubs.; "bears cub every year" |
| ~ kitten | have kittens.; "our cat kittened again this year" |
| ~ lamb | give birth to a lamb.; "the ewe lambed" |
| ~ litter | give birth to a litter of animals. |
| ~ pup, whelp | birth.; "the dog whelped" |
| ~ farrow, pig | give birth.; "sows farrow" |
| ~ fawn | have fawns.; "deer fawn" |
| ~ have young, calve | birth.; "the whales calve at this time of year" |
| ~ have a bun in the oven, gestate, expect, bear, carry | be pregnant with.; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child" |
| ~ have a bun in the oven, gestate, expect, bear, carry | be pregnant with.; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child" |
| ~ produce, bring forth | bring forth or yield.; "The tree would not produce fruit" |
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