carry
//ˈkæɹi//
Forms
- present (v1)
- carry
- past (v2)
- carried
- past participle (v3)
- carried
- present participle
- carrying
- 3rd person singular
- carries
- Plural
- carries
Definitions
1.To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry 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."
2.To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- The box is too heavy to carry.
3.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.
4.To lead or guide.
- Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.
- Passion and revenge will carry them too far.
- And he carried away all his cattle […] for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
1.A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don’t tire too quickly.
- 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, 30 carries, 139 yards and two TDs, as the Bengals won, 36-19.
2.A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- 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 the carry below the dam at the lake’s outlet.
3.The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- On paper, simply add the carry to the next addition; that is, $B2 + $9C + 1. That’s fine for paper, but how is it done by computer?
4.The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- The carry on this trade is 25 basis points per annum.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #572
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English carien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.