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drager — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bearer noun A person or thing that carries or holds something.
  • Carrier noun A person, vehicle, or company that transports goods, passengers, or messages.
  • host noun A person who welcomes and entertains guests, or who runs an event.
  • support noun Help, encouragement or resources given to someone or something.
  • wearer noun A person who wears something.

Senses

drager is used for these senses in English:

  • host (evolution, genetics) An organism bearing certain genetic material, with respect to its cells.
  • support (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero; the closure of that set.
  • wearer One who wears.

bearer — full definition

  1. noun A person or thing that carries or holds something.
  2. noun The person named or holding a document such as a cheque, entitling them to payment.

Carrier — full definition

  1. noun A person, vehicle, or company that transports goods, passengers, or messages.
  2. noun Someone who carries and can transmit a disease or gene without necessarily showing symptoms.
  3. noun Short for "aircraft carrier," a warship built to launch and land airplanes.

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