carry

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English

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Etymology

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

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 tocarryyou 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:
      Carriedsomehow, 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.
    • 2013June 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,carriedby 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.
    tocarrythe war from Greece into Asia
    tocarryan account to the ledger
  3. (transitive)To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
    The builders are going tocarrythe chimney throughthe roof. They would havecarriedthe road ten miles further, but ranout of materials.
  4. (transitive,chieflyarchaic)To move; to convey using force
    Synonyms:impel,conduct
  5. (transitive)Toleadorguide.
  6. (transitive)Tostockorsupply(something); to have instore.
    The corner drugstore doesn'tcarryhis favorite brand of aspirin.
  7. (transitive)Toadopt(something);take (something) over.
    I think I cancarrySmith's work while she is out.
  8. (transitive)Toadoptorresolveon, especially in a deliberative assembly
    The courtcarriesthat motion.
  9. (transitive,arithmetic)In anaddition,to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in theunitsin a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
    Five and nine are fourteen;carrythe one to the tens place.
  10. (transitive)Tohave,hold,possessormaintain(something).
    Alwayscarrysufficient insurance to protect against a loss.
  11. (intransitive)To betransmitted;totravel.
    The sound of the bellscarriedfor 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 notcarrywell. 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)Tocaptureashipby coming alongside andboarding.
  14. (transitive,sports)To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
    • 2011December 21, Tom Rostance, “Fulham 0-5 Man Utd”,inBBC Sport:
      Nani collected the ball on the halfway line, drifted past Bryan Ruiz, andcarriedthe ball unchallenged 50 yards down the left before picking out Welbeck for a crisp finish from seven yards.
  15. (transitive)To have on one's person.
    she alwayscarriesa purse;  marsupialscarrytheir 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, norcarrycanes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
    • 2013July 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 routinecarryingof weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
  16. To bepregnant(with).
    The doctor said she'scarryingtwins.
  17. To have propulsive power; to propel.
    A gun or mortarcarrieswell.
  18. To hold the head; said of a horse.
    tocarrywell, i.e. to hold the head high, with arching neck
  19. (hunting)To haveearthorfroststick 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.
  20. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
    • 1708,Joseph Addison,The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation:
      thecarryingof our main point
  21. To succeed in (e.g. a contest); tosucceedin; to win.
    The Toriescarriedthe election.
  22. (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 beencarriedin 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,carriedthe principal fortress by a vigorous assault, destroyed one half of Arnaldo’s forces, and compelled him to return to Cuba with the remainder[…]
  23. 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 valuecarrygreat importance.
    • 1689(indicated as1690),[John Locke], chapter 4, inAn Essay Concerning Humane Understanding.[…],London:[…]Eliz[abeth]Holt, for Thomas Basset,[…],→OCLC,book I,page16:
      Itcarriestoo great an imputation of ignorance.
  24. (reflexive)To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
  25. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
    A merchant iscarryinga large stock; a farmcarriesa mortgage; a brokercarriesstock fora customer; tocarrya life insurance.
  26. (intransitive)To have aweaponon 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.
  27. (gaming)To bedisproportionatelyresponsible for a team's success.
    He absolutelycarriedthe game, to the point of killing the entire enemy team by himself.
  28. (Southern US)To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
    Will youcarryme to town?
  29. (Canada,US)Tobearafirearm,such as agun.
    A holster can help youcarryin confidence, knowing that your weapon is secure and close at hand.

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

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Descendants

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  • →Cantonese:carry

Translations

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to carry—seebear
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Noun

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carry(pluralcarries)

  1. A manner of transporting or lifting something; thegriporpositionin which something is carried.
    Adjust yourcarryfrom time to time so that you don't tire too quickly.
  2. Atractoflandover whichboatsorgoodsare 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 thecarrybelow the dam at the lake's outlet.
  3. (computing)Thebitordigitthat is carried in anadditionoperation.
    • 1988,Michael A. Miller,The 68000 Microprocessor,page45:
      On paper, simply add thecarryto 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 anassetover time.
    Thecarryon this trade is 25basis pointsper annum.
  5. (golf)The distance travelled by theballwhen struck, until it hits the ground.
  6. (finance)Carried interest.
  7. (UK,dialect)Thesky;cloud-drift.

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FWOTD – 16 March 2023

Etymology

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FromEnglishcarryorEnglishcarryoff.

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
    CừMột cáiNgườicarryPhơiChúng taThànhteamNgười.[Cantonese,trad.]
    CừMột cáiNgườicarryPhơiChúng taThànhteamNgười.[Cantonese,simp.]
    keoi5jat1go3jan4-2ke1wi4saai3ngo5dei6seng4tim1jan4.[Jyutping]
    Hemakes most of the contributions forour entire team on his own.
  2. tomaster;to besuitedto(clothing, hairstyle or fashionable items)
    CừHệNgười mẫuLê㗎Oa,Miết dãVáyĐềucarryĐến㗎Lạp.[Cantonese,trad.]
    CừHệNgười mẫuLê㗎㖞,Miết dãVáyĐềucarryĐến㗎Lạp.[Cantonese,simp.]
    keoi5hai6ming4mou4lai4gaa3wo3,mat1je5kwan4dou1ke1wi4dou3-2gaa3laa1.[Jyutping]
    She's a famous model. She'lldo justice toany dress she wears.
  3. tomaster;tohandlewell; to have toabilityofdoingsomething(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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