Word Finder - carry

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A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.

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Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don't tire too quickly.

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A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.

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The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

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The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.

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The carry on this trade is 25 basis points per annum.

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The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.

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Carried interest.

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The sky; cloud-drift.

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To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.

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To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.

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to carry an account to the ledger

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To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.

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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.

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To move; to convey using force

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• conduct
• impel

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To lead or guide.

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To stock or supply (something); to have in store.

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The corner drugstore doesn't carry his favorite brand of aspirin.

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To adopt (something); take (something) over.

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I think I can carry Smith's work while she is out.

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To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly

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The court carries that motion.

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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.

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Five and nine are fourteen; carry the one to the tens place.

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To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).

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Always carry sufficient insurance to protect against a loss.

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To be transmitted; to travel.

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The sound of the bells carried for miles on the wind.

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To insult, to diss.

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To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.

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To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.

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To have on one's person.

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she always carries a purse;  marsupials carry their young in a pouch

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To be pregnant (with).

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The doctor said she's carrying twins.

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To have propulsive power; to propel.

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A gun or mortar carries well.

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To hold the head; said of a horse.

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to carry well, i.e. to hold the head high, with arching neck

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To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.

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To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle

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To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.

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The Tories carried the election.

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To get possession of by force; to capture.

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To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit

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To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.

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To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.

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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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To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.

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To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.

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He absolutely carried the game, to the point of killing the entire enemy team by himself.

Where do you carry your gold?

I can carry them.

I hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father's wish?

Do you want me to carry you inside?

Why he liked to carry her was still a mystery.

Can he even carry a gun?

I had to carry the pail up the hill.

We carry our own water and testing equipment.

I can carry you or you can walk out.

I don't deserve to carry it anymore.

Tell us who she is, and we will carry you to her.

I bid you carry it to him.

If not for the nightmares, she'd carry him back to his bed, whether or not he liked it, but she found some comfort in having the angel so close.

If you don't, you will always carry that regret.

You're supposed to carry at least a knife every time you leave the house.

The subject was how Mary had been a vessel to carry the son of god.

Chauncey, you can't carry me in this heat.

Wynn helped her carry her stuff to his vehicle.

If he moves the jack, but does not carry it through to the ditch, he scores two.

He now retired to his estate at Menilmontant, near Paris, where with forty disciples, all of them men, he continued to carry out his socialistic views.

Could you carry that?

The first and second fingers frequently carry a little claw.

The same spirit of enterprise which brought the Northmen into Gaul seems to carry the Normans out of Gaul into every corner of the world.

You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his wishes; that is my only reason for being here.

Lift this young man up and carry him to the dressing station.

Generals on the staff, excited by the memory of the easy victory at Tarutino, urged Kutuzov to carry out Dorokhov's suggestion.

As the final victory of Athens over Aegina was in 458 B.C., the thirty years of the oracle would carry us back to the year 488 B.C. as the date of the dedication of the precinct and the outbreak of hostilities.

When ordered abroad they could nominate a son, if capable, to hold the benefice and carry on the duty.

Small vessels carry cargo to Braila and Galatz, and a branch railway from Calarashi traverses the Steppe from south to north, and meets the main line between Bucharest and Constantza.

The great churches of those cities are wholly unlike those of Sicily; but, while some features show us that we are in Italy, while some features even savour of the Saracen, others distinctly carry us away to Caen and Peterborough.

Carry this cat away to prison, and keep her in safe confinement until she is tried by law for the crime of murder.

So he called together the merry little fairies of his household and, showing them the jars and vases containing his treasures, he bade them carry them to the palace of Santa Claus as quickly as they could.

Then came an order to retreat to Sventsyani and destroy any provisions they could not carry away with them.

Within a week the peasants who came with empty carts to carry off plunder were stopped by the authorities and made to cart the corpses out of the town.

It was impossible fully to carry out this menace.

None of these canals is serviceable at the present time, and few carry water in any part of their course, even in flood time.

The Lingayats number 436,968, or 46% of the Hindu population; they worship the symbol of Siva, and males and females both carry this emblem about their person in a silver case.

The arts colleges of the churches carry on the several courses required by the university, and send their students to the examinations of the university.

They should always be fitted with a pan of water to supply the necessary humidity to the warmed air, and a flue to carry off any disagreeable fumes.

A flue should in all cases be provided to carry off the fumes of the fuel.

On the 25th of May 1810 a great armed assembly met at Buenos Aires and a provisional junta was formed to supersede the authority of the viceroy and carry on the government.

Upon the refusal of the Aeginetans to continue these offerings, the Athenians endeavoured to carry away the images.

In December 1797 he joined his brother and some others in the formation of the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at Home," in building chapels or "tabernacles" for congregations, in supporting missionaries, and in maintaining institutions for the education of young men to carry on the work of evangelization.

But does that carry us far?

Other Hydrophilidae carry their egg-cocoons about with them beneath the abdomen.

In this family there is often a marked divergence between the sexes; the terminal antennal segments are larger in the male than in the female, and the males may carry large spinous processes on the head or prothorax, or both.

If the budget be not sanctioned by the emperor, that of the previous year remains in force, and the government has power, motu proprio, to impose the extra taxes necessary to carry out new laws.

They, too, are inclined to trade, but they also carry on agriculture successfully.

Having thus freed themselves from Tatar control, the Moscow princes continued to carry out energetically their traditional policy of extending and consolidating their dominions at the expense of their less powerful relations.

A plot to carry off the young Mortimers was defeated; but Mowbray, the earl marshal, who had been privy to it, raised a rebellion in the north supported by Archbishop Scrope of York.