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The Meaning of carry
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(v. t.) To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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(v. t.) To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.
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(v. t.) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
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(v. t.) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.
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(v. t.) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.
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(v. t.) To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.
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(v. t.) To get possession of by force; to capture.
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(v. t.) To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.
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(v. t.) To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns.
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(v. t.) To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.
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(v. i.) To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.
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(v. i.) To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.
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(v. i.) To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.
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(v. i.) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
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(n.) A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.
Synonyms
ravish
,
ship
,
transfer
,
delight
,
comport
,
dribble
,
pack
,
have a bun in the oven
,
impart
,
enthrall
,
behave
,
run
,
sway
,
take
,
post
,
expect
,
channelize
,
deport
,
extend
,
enthral
,
channelise
,
enrapture
,
channel
,
transport
,
stock
,
hold
,
enchant
,
acquit
,
convey
,
persuade
,
conduct
,
transmit
,
contain
,
express
,
gestate
,
send
,
stockpile
,
bear
,
require
,
read
,
occupy
,
subscribe to
,
rent
,
withdraw
,
lead
,
ingest
,
pile
,
deal
,
assume
,
have
,
choose
,
study
,
learn
,
fill
,
bundle
,
necessitate
,
consume
,
tamp
,
drive
,
demand
,
consider
,
need
,
load down
,
pick out
,
claim
,
jam
,
backpack
,
adopt
,
compact
,
remove
,
mob
,
lease
,
take on
,
take up
,
bring
,
wad
,
strike
,
use up
,
select
,
train
,
make
,
throng
,
get
,
get hold of
,
exact
,
take away
,
contract
,
call for
,
take in
,
submit
,
take aim
,
shoot
,
aim
,
film
,
tamp down
,
direct
,
charter
,
subscribe
,
involve
,
acquire
,
look at
,
postulate
,
hire
,
accept
,
guide
,
admit
,
engage
,
ask
,
canalise
,
beam
,
add
,
communicate
,
fetch
,
pass on
,
give
,
bestow
,
broadcast
,
leave
,
air
,
contribute
,
carry on
,
canalize
,
lend
,
verbalize
,
show
,
verbalise
,
evince
,
give tongue to
,
state
,
utter
,
press out
,
extract
,
hold in
,
declare
,
view as
,
book
,
concur
,
maintain
,
moderate
,
sustain
,
take over
,
retain
,
nurse
,
defy
,
support
,
turn out
,
guard
,
prevail
,
adjudge
,
endure
,
withstand
,
tolerate
,
deliver
,
accommodate
,
curb
,
control
,
stomach
,
harbour
,
birth
,
check
,
hold back
,
stick out
,
brook
,
take hold
,
go for
,
deem
,
obtain
,
apply
,
bind
,
stand
,
have got
,
pay
,
entertain
,
restrain
,
keep
,
give birth
,
concord
,
keep back
,
oblige
,
throw
,
arrest
,
wear
,
suffer
,
hold up
,
take for
,
harbor
,
abide
,
defend
,
put up
,
confine
,
agree
,
reserve
,
digest
,
yield
,
halt
,
obligate
,
incorporate
,
stop
,
comprise
,
turn back
,
continue
,
poke out
,
gallop
,
protract
,
stretch out
,
draw out
,
offer
,
put out
,
widen
,
go
,
stretch
,
stretch forth
,
pass
,
hold out
,
reach out
,
unfold
,
exsert
,
expand
,
cover
,
prolong
,
strain
,
broaden
,
exile
,
act
,
assoil
,
extradite
,
do
,
exculpate
,
expatriate
,
clear
,
discharge
,
exonerate
,
stock up
,
sprout
,
buy in
,
course
,
operate
,
work
,
scat
,
run away
,
turn tail
,
range
,
function
,
lam
,
hunt
,
flow
,
melt down
,
track down
,
break away
,
head for the hills
,
fly the coop
,
incline
,
bunk
,
take to the woods
,
draw
,
consort
,
execute
,
feed
,
play
,
scarper
,
hightail it
,
lean
,
die hard
,
race
,
escape
,
run for
,
be given
,
hunt down
,
persist
,
ladder
,
bleed
,
black market
,
campaign
,
tend
,
move
,
melt
,
ply
,
unravel
,
slaver
,
drool
,
drip
,
slabber
,
slobber
,
filter
,
drivel
,
drop
,
trickle
,
rock
,
swing
,
shake
,
stake
,
place
,
mail
,
station
,
brand
,
conceptualize
,
look
,
await
,
conceptualise
,
wait
,
conceive
,
anticipate
,
lift
,
displace
Antonyms
drop
,
fall under
,
give up
,
let go
,
shake off
,
throw down
,
throw off
Rhymes
adversary
,
aerie
,
airey
,
airy
,
alarie
,
ameri
,
ancillary
,
apothecary
,
arbitrary
,
arey
,
arie
,
ary
,
asbury
,
auberry
,
aviary
,
azeri
,
balistreri
,
banbury
,
barberi
,
barey
,
barillari
,
barre
,
barrie
,
barry
,
beneficiary
,
berrey
,
berri
,
berrie
,
berry
,
bicentenary
,
blackberry
,
blueberry
,
bollettieri
,
boveri
,
bradberry
,
bradbury
,
buccheri
,
budgetary
,
bury
,
cadbury
,
camilleri
,
canary
,
canterbury
,
canzoneri
,
capillary
,
carey
,
carie
,
carrey
,
carrie
,
cary
,
cassowary
,
cautionary
,
cemetery
,
centenary
,
chari
,
charry
,
cheri
,
cherie
,
cherry
,
chery
,
clarey
,
clary
,
cometary
,
commentary
,
commissary
,
concessionary
,
confectionary
,
confectionery
,
constabulary
,
contemporary
,
contrary
,
corollary
,
coronary
,
counterrevolutionary
,
cranberry
,
culinary
,
curreri
,
customary
,
dairy
,
deflationary
,
denarii
,
depositary
,
derry
,
dery
,
dewberry
,
dictionary
,
dietary
,
dignitary
,
disciplinary
,
discretionary
,
disinflationary
,
dispensary
,
diversionary
,
dogberry
,
dromedary
,
dubarry
,
dysentery
,
emissary
,
epistolary
,
estuary
,
evolutionary
,
exclusionary
,
expeditionary
,
extraordinary
,
eyrie
,
fairey
,
fairy
,
farrey
,
farry
,
feb
,
february
,
ferreri
,
ferri
,
ferrie
,
ferry
,
fery
,
fiduciary
,
formulary
,
fragmentary
,
francesmary
,
frary
,
functionary
,
funerary
,
gadberry
,
garey
,
garry
,
gary
,
gerri
,
gerrie
,
gerry
,
gery
,
glary
,
glengarry
,
gooseberry
,
granberry
,
guarneri
,
hackberry
,
hairy
,
hanberry
,
hanbury
,
harry
,
hereditary
,
herry
,
honorary
,
huckleberry
,
illusionary
,
imaginary
,
inflationary
,
interdisciplinary
,
intermarry
,
interplanetary
,
involuntary
,
itinerary
,
january
,
jere
,
jeri
,
jerri
,
jerrie
,
jerry
,
judiciary
,
kairey
,
kari
,
karry
,
kary
,
kerrey
,
kerri
,
kerry
,
kilbury
,
lapidary
,
laprairie
,
larry
,
lary
,
legendary
,
library
,
literary
,
londonderry
,
luminary
,
marry
,
mary
,
maseri
,
mauceri
,
maugeri
,
mccarey
,
mccarry
,
mcclary
,
mccrary
,
mcgarry
,
mcnary
,
mcquerry
,
mcsherry
,
meharry
,
mercenary
,
merrie
,
merry
,
metairie
,
middlebury
,
military
,
missionary
,
moceri
,
momentary
,
monastery
,
monetary
,
mooberry
,
mortuary
,
mulberry
,
nary
,
necessary
,
neri
,
newberry
,
newbery
,
newbury
,
noninflationary
,
nonmilitary
,
obituary
,
omary
,
ordinary
,
oteri
,
palmieri
,
palminteri
,
paramilitary
,
parry
,
pecuniary
,
perry
,
pituitary
,
planetary
,
plumeri
,
prairie
,
preliminary
,
primary
,
probationary
,
proprietary
,
prosperi
,
pulmonary
,
pusateri
,
quaternary
,
querry
,
raineri
,
raneri
,
ranieri
,
raspberry
,
reactionary
,
recarey
,
recessionary
,
remarry
,
revolutionary
,
rosemary
,
salutary
,
sanctuary
,
sanitary
,
savagery
,
scarry
,
scary
,
secondary
,
secretary
,
sedentary
,
semilegendary
,
seminary
,
serry
,
sherrie
,
sherry
,
shrewsbury
,
silveri
,
simsbury
,
skerry
,
soleri
,
solitary
,
sperry
,
spiteri
,
stanberry
,
stanbury
,
stary
,
stationary
,
stationery
,
statuary
,
sterry
,
strawberry
,
subsidiary
,
sudberry
,
sudbury
,
sunseri
,
tagliaferri
,
tarry
,
temporary
,
teri
,
terri
,
terry
,
tertiary
,
tiberi
,
tilbury
,
tipperary
,
topiary
,
tributary
,
undersecretary
,
unitary
,
unnecessary
,
unsanitary
,
unwary
,
urinary
,
vary
,
verri
,
verry
,
very
,
veterinary
,
visionary
,
vocabulary
,
wary
,
waterbury
,
werry
,
wery
,
wharry
,
wherry
,
woodbury
,
yeiri