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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcarien, fromAnglo-Normancarier (modernFrenchcharrier); from a derivative ofLatincarrus(“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately ofGaulish origin.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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carry (third-person singular simple presentcarries,present participlecarrying,simple past and past participlecarried)

  1. (transitive) Tolift (something) and take it to another place; totransport (something) by lifting.
    • 1900,L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, inThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
      "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys tocarry 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."
    • 1910,Emerson Hough, chapter II, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      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.
    • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8842, page29:
      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.
  2. (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
    tocarry the war from Greece into Asia
    tocarry an account to the ledger
  3. (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
    The builders are going tocarry the chimney through the roof.
    They would havecarried the road ten miles further, but ran out of materials.
  4. (transitive, chieflyarchaic) To move; to convey using force
    Synonyms:impel,conduct
  5. (transitive) Tolead orguide.
  6. (transitive) Tostock orsupply (something); to have instore.
    The corner drugstore doesn’tcarry his favorite brand of aspirin.
  7. (transitive) Toadopt (something);take (something) over.
    I think I cancarry Smith’s work while she is out.
  8. (transitive) Toadopt orresolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
    The courtcarries that motion.
  9. (transitive,arithmetic) In anaddition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in theunits in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
    Five and nine are fourteen;carry the one to the tens place.
  10. (transitive) Tohave,hold,possess ormaintain (something).
    Alwayscarry sufficient insurance to protect against a loss.
  11. (intransitive) To betransmitted; totravel.
    The sound of the bellscarried for miles on the wind.
    • 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, inBaseball Joe on the School Nine:
      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 notcarry 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.
  12. (slang,transitive) Toinsult, todiss.
  13. (transitive,nautical) Tocapture aship by coming alongside andboarding.
  14. (transitive,sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
    • 2011 December 21, Tom Rostance, “Fulham 0-5 Man Utd”, inBBC Sport:
      Nani collected the ball on the halfway line, drifted past Bryan Ruiz, andcarried the ball unchallenged 50 yards down the left before picking out Welbeck for a crisp finish from seven yards.
  15. (intransitive,cricket) For the ball, having been hit in the air, to reach afielder without touching the ground (whether or not the fielder catches it).
  16. (transitive) To have on one’s person.
    She alwayscarries a purse.
    Marsupialscarry their young in a pouch
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, norcarry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
    • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
      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 routinecarrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
  17. To bepregnant (with).
    The doctor said she’scarrying twins.
  18. To have propulsive power; to propel.
    A gun or mortarcarries well.
  19. To hold the head; said of a horse.
    tocarry well, i.e. to hold the head high, with arching neck
  20. (hunting) To haveearth orfrost stick to the feet when running, as ahare.
    • 1892,[…]Field[…]:
      The frost[…]caused the fallows and seeds to ‘carry’ a good deal, and they could only hunt very slowly.
  21. To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle
    • 1708,Joseph Addison,The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation:
      thecarrying of our main point
    • 1986 February 1, Sarah Schulman, “Lesbian Films: Still Not Enough”, inGay Community News, volume13, number28, page 9:
      McCloughlin[…] makes for the kind of fantasy girl you don't forget when the film is over. Still, she alone is not interesting enough tocarry the piece.
  22. To succeed in (e.g. a contest); tosucceed in; to win.
    The Toriescarried the election.
  23. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
    • 1622,Francis Bacon,History of the Reign of King Henry VII, page63; republished as Francis Bacon,Francis Godwin,The History of the Reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary the First‎[1], London: R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, and J. Edwyn,1676:
      The Town [ofBulloign] 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 beencarried in the end.
    • 1803, John Browne Cutting,A Succinct History of Jamaica; published in Robert Charles Dallas,The History of the Maroons‎[2], volume 1, London: Longman and Rees,1803, page xxxvii:
      But the gallantD’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[…]
  24. To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
    • 2014, Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris,If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of her Children:
      Things of little valuecarry great importance.
    • 1689 (indicated as1690), [John Locke], chapter 4, inAn Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London:[…] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […],→OCLC, book I,page16:
      Itcarries too great an imputation of ignorance.
  25. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
  26. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
    tocarry a life insurance
    A merchant iscarrying a large stock.A farmcarries a mortgage.A brokercarries stock for a customer.
  27. (intransitive) To have aweapon on one's person; to bearmed.
    • 2001, Dana Stabenow,The Singing of the Dead,→ISBN, page72:
      Nobody looked like they werecarrying, 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.
  28. (gaming,sports)(transitive or, rarely,intransitive) To bedisproportionately responsible for a team's success or for counteracting teammates' underperformance.
    Despite zero goals and zero assists, she still stands out forcarrying her team's defense.
    The other outfielders had no hustle, but fortunately the centerfieldercarried them.
    He absolutelycarried, to the point of killing the entire enemy team by himself.
  29. (Southern US) To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
    Will youcarry me to town?
  30. (Canada,US) Tobear afirearm, such as agun.
    A holster can help youcarry in confidence, knowing that your weapon is secure and close at hand.

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of“in arithmetic”):borrow(the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Translations

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to carry—seebear
to transport by lifting
to extend
to stock or supply
to adopt; take over or stand in
in an addition
to transmit or travel
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Noun

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carry (pluralcarries)

  1. A manner of transporting or lifting something; thegrip orposition in which something is carried.
    Adjust yourcarry from time to time so that you don’t tire too quickly.
    • 1988 October 10, Gary Nuhn, “Bengals put Jets, ghosts of ’87 to rest”, inDayton Daily News, volume112, number31, Dayton, Ohio,page1-B:
      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 — 30carries, 139 yards and two TDs — as the Bengals won, 36-19.
  2. Atract ofland over whichboats orgoods are carried between two bodies ofnavigablewater; aportage.
    • 1862,The Atlantic Monthly, volume10, page533:
      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 thecarry below the dam at the lake’s outlet.
  3. (computing) Thebit ordigit that is carried in anaddition operation.
    • 1988, Michael A. Miller,The 68000 Microprocessor, page45:
      On paper, simply add thecarry to the next addition; that is, $B2 + $9C + 1. That’s fine for paper, but how is it done by computer?
  4. (finance) The benefit or cost of owning anasset over time.
    Thecarry on this trade is 25basis points per annum.
  5. (golf) The distance travelled by theball when struck, until it hits the ground.
  6. (finance)Carried interest.
  7. (UK,dialect) Thesky; cloud-drift.

Derived terms

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Translations

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a manner of transporting or lifting something
bit or digit carried in an addition

Anagrams

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Chinese

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FWOTD – 16 March 2023

Etymology

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FromEnglishcarry orEnglishcarry off.

Pronunciation

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  • (closer to English pronunciation)IPA(key):/kʰɛː⁵⁵ ɹiː²¹/

Verb

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carry(Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. (in group work) tocontributedisproportionately; to contribute for others
    佢一個人carry晒我哋成team人。[Cantonese,trad.]
    佢一个人carry晒我哋成team人。[Cantonese,simp.]
    keoi5 jat1 go3 jan4-2ke1 wi4 saai3 ngo5 dei6 seng4 tim1 jan4.[Jyutping]
    Hemakes most of the contributions for our entire team on his own.
  2. tomaster; to besuited to(clothing, hairstyle or fashionable items)
    佢係名模嚟㗎喎，乜嘢裙都carry到㗎啦。[Cantonese,trad.]
    佢系名模嚟㗎㖞，乜嘢裙都carry到㗎啦。[Cantonese,simp.]
    keoi5 hai6 ming4 mou4 lai4 gaa3 wo3, mat1 je5 kwan4 dou1ke1 wi4 dou3-2 gaa3 laa1.[Jyutping]
    She's a famous model. She'lldo justice to any dress she wears.
  3. tomaster; tohandle well; to have toability ofdoing something(songs, talents or skills)

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of“to contribute disproportionately”):free ride

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcarien, fromAnglo-Normancarier.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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carry

  1. tocarry

References

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  • Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, inlrish University Review‎[3], volume20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page150
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