carry
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arithmetic
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hunting
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
transport
Etymology: From Middle English carien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin. Compare also Middle English cairen (“to go, bring carry”), whence Modern English cair, with which it was confused.
Inflected forms:
form: carries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carried
pos: verb
tags: past
form: carries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
gloss: To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to carry the war from Greece into Asia
to carry an account to the ledger
gloss: To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The builders are going to carry the chimney through the roof.
They would have carried the road ten miles further, but ran out of materials.
gloss: To move; to convey using force
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To lead or guide.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.
And he carried away all his cattle […] for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
Passion and revenge will carry them too far.
gloss: To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The corner drugstore doesn’t carry his favorite brand of aspirin.
gloss: To adopt (something); take (something) over.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I think I can carry Smith’s work while she is out.
gloss: To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The court carries that motion.
gloss: In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Five and nine are fourteen; carry the one to the tens place.
gloss: To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Always carry sufficient insurance to protect against a loss.
gloss: To be transmitted; to travel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sound of the bells carried for miles on the wind.
It might seem easy to hit the head of a barrel at that distance, but either the lads were not expert enough or else the snowballs, being of irregular shapes and rather light, did not carry well. Whatever the cause, the fact remained that the barrel received only a few scattering shots and these on the outer edges of the head.
gloss: To insult, to diss.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Nani collected the ball on the halfway line, drifted past Bryan Ruiz, and carried the ball unchallenged 50 yards down the left before picking out Welbeck for a crisp finish from seven yards.
gloss: For the ball, having been hit in the air, to reach a fielder without touching the ground (whether or not the fielder catches it).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To have on one’s person.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She always carries a purse.
Marsupials carry their young in a pouch
Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
gloss: To be pregnant (with).
pos: verb
examples: The doctor said she’s carrying twins.
gloss: To have propulsive power; to propel.
pos: verb
examples: A gun or mortar carries well.
gloss: To hold the head; said of a horse.
pos: verb
examples: to carry well, i.e. to hold the head high, with arching neck
gloss: To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
pos: verb
examples: The frost[…]caused the fallows and seeds to ‘carry’ a good deal, and they could only hunt very slowly.
gloss: To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle
pos: verb
examples: the carrying of our main point
McCloughlin […] makes for the kind of fantasy girl you don't forget when the film is over. Still, she alone is not interesting enough to carry the piece.
gloss: To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
pos: verb
examples: The Tories carried the election.
The greater part carries it.
gloss: To get possession of by force; to capture.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: The Town [of Bulloign] was both well fortified, and well manned; yet it was distressed, and ready for an Assault: which if it had been given (as was thought) would have cost much blood; but yet the Town would have been carried in the end.
But the gallant D’Oyley, landing at the head of his well disciplined band, immediately attacked the Spaniards in their intrenchments, carried the principal fortress by a vigorous assault, destroyed one half of Arnaldo’s forces, and compelled him to return to Cuba with the remainder […]
gloss: To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
pos: verb
examples: Things of little value carry great importance.
It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.
gloss: To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.
gloss: To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
pos: verb
examples: to carry a life insurance
A merchant is carrying a large stock.
A farm carries a mortgage.
A broker carries stock for a customer.
gloss: To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Nobody looked like they were carrying, other than those who had knives strapped to their belts, although with Alaska's new concealed-carry permit, available to anyone who trundled themselves down to the local police station to take the class, someone in this crowd could have a rocket launcher stuffed into their boot and she'd never know it.
gloss: (transitive or, rarely, intransitive) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success or for counteracting teammates' underperformance.
pos: verb
examples: Despite zero goals and zero assists, she still stands out for carrying her team's defense.
The other outfielders had no hustle, but fortunately the centerfielder carried them.
He absolutely carried, to the point of killing the entire enemy team by himself.
gloss: To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
pos: verb
tags: Southern-US
examples: Will you carry me to town?
gloss: To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
examples: A holster can help you carry in confidence, knowing that your weapon is secure and close at hand.
gloss: A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
pos: noun
examples: Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don’t tire too quickly.
When he and his Cincinnati Bengal playmates were done with the AFC’s best defense, that of the New York-New Jersey Jets, he had done Supermannish damage — 30 carries, 139 yards and two TDs — as the Bengals won, 36-19.
gloss: A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
pos: noun
examples: Undrowned, unducked, as safe from the perils of the broad lake as we had come out of the defiles of the rapids, we landed at the carry below the dam at the lake’s outlet.
gloss: The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
pos: noun
examples: On paper, simply add the carry to the next addition; that is, $B2 + $9C + 1. That’s fine for paper, but how is it done by computer?
gloss: The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
pos: noun
examples: The carry on this trade is 25 basis points per annum.
gloss: The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: Carried interest.
pos: noun
gloss: The sky; cloud-drift.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
Synonyms: bear
move
transport
tote
cart
convey
drag
haul
hitch
hoise
hoist
lift
lug
schlep
shift
shoulder
Antonyms: borrow
Derived words: as fast as one's legs could carry one
can't carry a tune in a bucket
card-carrying
carisack
carriable
carrier
carryable
carry all before one
carry a torch
carry a torch for
carry a tune
carry away
carryback
carry back
carry bag
carry coals to Newcastle
carry conviction
carry corn
carrycot
carry everything before one
carryforward
carry forward
carry-go-bring-come
carry-in
carrying basket
carrying capacity
carrying-on
carrying-pole
carrying pole
carrying the mantle
carrying violation
carryless
carry-lookahead
carry me out
carry me out and bury me decently
carry off
carry-on
carry on
carry oneself
carry one's heart on one's sleeve
carry one's heart upon one's sleeve
carry one's own hide to market
carry one's own weight
carry one's point
carry one's weight
carry-out
carry out
carry out one's bat
carry over
carry owls to Athens
carry someone's water
carrytale
carry the ball
carry the bat
carry the can
carry the day
carry the mail
carry the mantle
carry the message to Garcia
carry the torch
carry the world before one
carry through
carry trade
carry up
carry water for
carry weight
cash and carry
cash and carry trade
constitutional carry
couldn't carry a note in a bucket
diamond carry
dot and carry
dot-and-carry-one
everyday carry
fetch-and-carry
fetch and carry
firefighter's carry
hand carry
hand-carry
handcarry
headcarry
hypercarry
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
miscarry
noncarrying
one can't carry two watermelons under one arm
open-carry
outcarry
overcarry
Pia carry
recarry
ripple carry
speak softly and carry a big stick
talk softly and carry a big stick
walk softly and carry a big stick
water-carrying
wife carrying
ball carry
bridal carry
campus carry
concealed carry
fireman's carry
full carry
negative carry
open carry
permitless carry
positive carry
princess carry
unrestricted carry
Vermont carry
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