carry
/ˈkæɹ.i/ verb A1- To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another. · to carry the war from Greece into Asia· to carry an account to the ledger
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend. · 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.
- To lead or guide.
- To stock or supply (something); to have in store. · The corner drugstore doesn’t carry his favorite brand of aspirin.
- To adopt (something); take (something) over. · I think I can carry Smith’s work while she is out.
- To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly · The court carries that motion.
- 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. · Five and nine are fourteen; carry the one to the tens place.
He/she/it carries · Past carried · Past participle carried · -ing form carrying
Verb forms
- Base form
- carry
- He/she/it
- carries
- Past
- carried
- Past participle
- carried
- -ing form
- carrying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- carry away To steal; to take away.
- carry forward To transfer to a new page, column, ledger, or similar ent...
- carry off To transport away.
- carry on To continue or proceed as before.
- carry on To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than ...
- carry out To hold while moving it out.
- carry over Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see carry,...
- carry through To manage to execute; to perform successfully, all the wa...
- carry up To convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to ...
From the library
“Then we are all right,” answered the Scarecrow, “for you can carry us all over on your back, one at a time.”
The farmer carried me under his arm to the cornfield, and set me up on a tall stick, where you found me.
“A pretty silence truly!” said the old father of the bridegroom, as he carried to his lips a glass of wine of the hue and brightness of the topaz, and which had just been placed before Mercédès herself.
So she told him all about Kansas, and how gray everything was there, and how the cyclone had carried her to this queer Land of Oz.
Other matches
- carry A manner of transporting or lifting something C2
- carry away To steal
- carry forward To transfer to a new page, column, ledger, or s...
- carry off To transport away.
- carry on To continue or proceed as before.
- carry on To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, ra...
- carry out To hold while moving it out.
- carry over Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
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