Definition of "carry"

carry

/ˈkæɹ.ɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present carries, present participle carrying, simple past and past participle carried
1. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
  Quotations
  "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."
  1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  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.
  1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  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.
  2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
2. (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
3. (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
4. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey using force
5. (transitive) To lead or guide.
  Quotations
  Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.
  c. 1596-1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, act 5, scene 5
  And he carried away all his cattle […] for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 31:18
  Passion and revenge will carry them too far.
  1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […]
6. (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
7. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
8. (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
9. (transitive, arithmetic) 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.
10. (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
11. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
  Quotations
  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 not carry 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.
  1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine
12. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
13. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
14. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
  Quotations
  Nani collected the ball on the halfway line, drifted past Bryan Ruiz, and carried the ball unchallenged 50 yards down the left before picking out Welbeck for a crisp finish from seven yards.
  2011 December 21, Tom Rostance, “Fulham 0-5 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport
15. (transitive) To have on one's person.
  Quotations
  Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 10, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
  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 routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
  2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
16. To be pregnant (with).
17. To have propulsive power; to propel.
18. To hold the head; said of a horse.
19. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
  Quotations
  The frost […] caused the fallows and seeds to ‘carry’ a good deal, and they could only hunt very slowly.
  1892, […] Field […]
20. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
  Quotations
  the carrying of our main point
  1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
21. to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
  Quotations
  The greater part carries it.
  c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iii]
22. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
  Quotations
  The Town [of Bulloign] 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 been carried in the end.
  1622, Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry VII, page 63; 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, London: R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, and J. Edwyn, 1676
  But the gallant D’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 […]
  1803, John Browne Cutting, A Succinct History of Jamaica; published in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons‎, volume 1, London: Longman and Rees, 1803, page xxxvii
23. To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
  Quotations
  Things of little value carry great importance.
  2014, Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris, If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of her Children
  It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.
  1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 4, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], book I, page 16
24. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
  Quotations
  He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.
  1702-1704, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion
25. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
26. (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
  Quotations
  Nobody looked like they were carrying, 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.
  2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, page 72
27. (gaming) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
28. (Southern US) to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
29. (Canada, US) To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
noun
plural carries
1. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
2. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
  Quotations
  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.
  1862, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 10, page 533
3. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
  Quotations
  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?
  1988, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor, page 45
4. (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
5. (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
6. (finance) Carried interest.
7. (UK, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.

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