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Carry   /kˈæri/  /kˈɛri/   Listen
verb
Carry  v. t.  (past & past part. carried; pres. part. carrying)  
1.
To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; often with away or off. "When he dieth he shall carry nothing away." "Devout men carried Stephen to his burial." "Another carried the intelligence to Russell." "The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles."
2.
To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child. "If the ideas... were carried along with us in our minds."
3.
To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide. "Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet." "He carried away all his cattle." "Passion and revenge will carry them too far."
4.
To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.
5.
To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.
6.
To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election. "The greater part carries it." "The carrying of our main point."
7.
To get possession of by force; to capture. "The town would have been carried in the end."
8.
To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply. "He thought it carried something of argument in it." "It carries too great an imputation of ignorance."
9.
To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; with the reflexive pronouns. "He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious."
10.
To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.
Carry arms (Mil. Drill), a command of the Manual of Arms directing the soldier to hold his piece in the right hand, the barrel resting against the hollow of the shoulder in a nearly perpendicular position. In this position the soldier is said to stand, and the musket to be held, at carry.
To carry all before one, to overcome all obstacles; to have uninterrupted success.
To carry arms
(a)
To bear weapons.
(b)
To serve as a soldier.
To carry away.
(a)
(Naut.) to break off; to lose; as, to carry away a fore-topmast.
(b)
To take possession of the mind; to charm; to delude; as, to be carried by music, or by temptation.
To carry coals, to bear indignities tamely, a phrase used by early dramatists, perhaps from the mean nature of the occupation.
To carry coals to Newcastle, to take things to a place where they already abound; to lose one's labor.
To carry off
(a)
To remove to a distance.
(b)
To bear away as from the power or grasp of others.
(c)
To remove from life; as, the plague carried off thousands.
To carry on
(a)
To carry farther; to advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design.
(b)
To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry or trade.
To carry out.
(a)
To bear from within.
(b)
To put into execution; to bring to a successful issue.
(c)
To sustain to the end; to continue to the end.
To carry through.
(a)
To convey through the midst of.
(b)
To support to the end; to sustain, or keep from falling, or being subdued. "Grace will carry us... through all difficulties."
(c)
To complete; to bring to a successful issue; to succeed.
To carry up, to convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.
To carry weight.
(a)
To be handicapped; to have an extra burden, as when one rides or runs. "He carries weight, he rides a race"
(b)
To have influence.


Carry  v. i.  
1.
To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.
2.
To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.
3.
To hold the head; said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.
4.
(Hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
To carry on, to behave in a wild, rude, or romping manner. (Colloq.)


noun
Carry  n.  (pl. carries)  A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.





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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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