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Carry   /kˈæri/  /kˈɛri/   Listen
Carry

verb
(past & past part. carried; pres. part. carrying)
1.
Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body.  Synonym: transport.  "Carry the suitcases to the car" , "This train is carrying nuclear waste" , "These pipes carry waste water into the river"
2.
Have with oneself; have on one's person.  Synonyms: pack, take.  "I always carry money" , "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"
3.
Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.  Synonyms: channel, conduct, convey, impart, transmit.  "The airwaves carry the sound" , "Many metals conduct heat"
4.
Serve as a means for expressing something.  Synonyms: convey, express.  "His voice carried a lot of anger"
5.
Bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of.  "How many credits is this student carrying?" , "We carry a very large mortgage"
6.
Support or hold in a certain manner.  Synonyms: bear, hold.  "He carried himself upright"
7.
Contain or hold; have within.  Synonyms: bear, contain, hold.  "The canteen holds fresh water" , "This can contains water"
8.
Extend to a certain degree.  "She carries her ideas to the extreme"
9.
Continue or extend.  Synonym: extend.  "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces"
10.
Be necessarily associated with or result in or involve.
11.
Win in an election.
12.
Include, as on a list.
13.
Behave in a certain manner.  Synonyms: acquit, bear, behave, comport, conduct, deport.  "He bore himself with dignity" , "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
14.
Have on hand.  Synonyms: stock, stockpile.
15.
Include as the content; broadcast or publicize.  Synonym: run.  "This paper carries a restaurant review" , "All major networks carried the press conference"
16.
Propel,.  Synonym: dribble.  "Dribble the ball"
17.
Pass on a communication.
18.
Have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence.  "The loan carries a high interest rate" , "This undertaking carries many dangers" , "She carries her mother's genes" , "These bonds carry warrants" , "The restaurant carries an unusual name"
19.
Be conveyed over a certain distance.
20.
Keep up with financial support.
21.
Have or possess something abstract.  "I will carry the secret to my grave" , "I carry these thoughts in the back of my head" , "I carry a lot of life insurance"
22.
Be equipped with (a mast or sail).
23.
Win approval or support for.  Synonyms: persuade, sway.  "His speech did not sway the voters"
24.
Compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance.
25.
Take further or advance.
26.
Have on the surface or on the skin.
27.
Capture after a fight.
28.
Transfer (entries) from one account book to another.  Synonym: post.
29.
Transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication.
30.
Pursue a line of scent or be a bearer.
31.
Bear (a crop).
32.
Propel or give impetus to.
33.
Drink alcohol without showing ill effects.  Synonym: hold.  "He had drunk more than he could carry"
34.
Be able to feed.
35.
Have a certain range.
36.
Cover a certain distance or advance beyond.
37.
Secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions).
38.
Be successful in.
39.
Sing or play against other voices or parts.
40.
Be pregnant with.  Synonyms: bear, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven.  "The are expecting another child in January" , "I am carrying his child"
noun
(pl. carries)
1.
The act of carrying something.



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"Carry" Quotes from Famous Books



... rugged notches, virtues? Is there not in these excessive advertisements of self-abnegation and of honour a good deal of ostentation? It is all parade more than anything else. Why such exaggeration of solitude and exile? to carry nothing to extremes is the wise man's maxim. Be in opposition if you choose, blame if you will, but decently, and crying out all the while "Long live the King." The true virtue is common sense—what falls ought to fall, what succeeds ought to succeed. Providence acts ...
— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo
... room Mrs. Woodchuck took one quick look all around. And then she turned and ran out as fast as her short legs would carry her, calling all the time to Billy to hurry. When she reached the open air Mrs. Woodchuck had to sit down and fan herself, she was ...
— The Tale of Billy Woodchuck • Arthur Scott Bailey
... a scatter o' pitch and a plate or two, And she's fit for the risks o' war—- Fit for to carry a freight or two, The same as she used before; To carry a cargo here and there, And what she carries she don't much care, Boxes or barrels or baulks or bales, Coal or cotton or nuts or nails, Pork or pepper or Spanish beans, Mules or millet or sewing-machines, Or a trifle o' lumber from Hastings ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 9, 1919 • Various
... brought it out from the cave in which it had been hidden, to divide it between them. But they did not agree about the division. So when Seigfied drew near both princes said, 'Divide for us, Sir Siegfried, our father's hoard.' There were so many jewels that one hundred wagons could not carry them, and of ruddy gold there was even more. Seigfied made the fairest division he could, and as a reward the princes gave him their father's sword called Balmung. But although Siegfried had done his best to satisfy them with his division, they soon fell to quarreling and fighting, ...
— Famous Men of The Middle Ages • John H. Haaren, LL.D. and A. B. Poland, Ph.D.
... are several ways of carving this most familiar game bird. The more usual and summary mode is to carry the knife sharply along the top of the breastbone of the bird, and cut it quite through, thus dividing it into two precisely equal and similar parts, in the same manner as carving a pigeon, No. 1003. Another plan is to cut it into three pieces; viz., by severing a small wing and ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton


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