Word Finder - carrying

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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.

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Transportation.

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carryings away of goods

It was that of a boy carrying a basket of ripe red cherries.

The ant was carrying a grain of wheat as large as itself.

You're carrying this juror business too far!

The woman emerged carrying a crossbow.

I'm not used to having a phone in the house, much less carrying a cell phone.

How do you get used to carrying something half your size?

She was pacing the hall in front of the dining area when Hannah emerged a short time later carrying a large tote.

He walked her to the door, carrying her husband's suitcase.

Next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed by the fire.

You should have seen her when he came in carrying a doll.

Each carrying two canteens, a rifle and a lantern, they started off into the long shadows of the sand dunes.

Fred O'Connor plodded down the stairs carrying a wrapped present and set it by her chair.

Andre entered, followed by a second man carrying a large tray of food.

The boxes were heavy, so carrying two of them was too much weight to handle.

The nurse knocked on the door and then came in carrying a crying Natalie.

Here! exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the weight they were carrying were too much for them.

Carrying a chair from the kitchen, she stretched to dust the top shelf of one of the bookcases beside the fireplace.

He spread his arms to show he wasn't carrying any weapons.

Two obeyed, lifting her off the floor and carrying her.

Six ladies, all carrying campaign signs, formed an honor guard around the vehicle.

Dean started to protest but his wife began carrying the packed ornaments from the room and asked in her sweetest tone if he could remove the now-dried Christmas tree and finish a short list of Bird Song chores she'd drawn up earlier.

Dean didn't want to lie, but he had no intention of causing more concern than Cynthia was already carrying.

Fred O'Connor strolled into the kitchen a few moments later, all smiles, carrying his ever-present notebook.

Do you think Annie ever told Rev. Martin she was carrying his child?

Edith was carrying it when she came into the room but he probably didn't want to take time to search for underwear.

I just want a little more time to bask in the beauty that perhaps I'm carrying a life.

I can't have you spreading any contaminants you might be carrying.

And maybe she'll tell you what she won't tell me about what she's carrying west.

He checked a piece of paper he was carrying and mumbled, Over here.

Organized tours provided sag wagons—vehi­cles to haul luggage from one overnight stop to another—but Dean preferred carrying his own gear rather than taking time to sift through a thousand sets of belongings nightly.

Even carrying a White God, Jenn couldn't explain Sofi's pregnancy accelerating so fast, unless …"Wait, exactly how long have you been here?"

They are youths aged from twelve to sixteen, selected by the sovereign in person, to attend on him at state ceremonies, when two of them, arrayed in an antique costume, assist the groom of the stole in carrying the royal train.

She was hell on wheels, moaning and carrying on something wicked!

During the three years of his banishment Calvin was at Strassburg, where he had been carrying out his ideas.

His Morgenstunden appeared in 1785, and he died as the result of a cold contracted while carrying to his publishers in 1786 the manuscript of a vindication of his friend Lessing, who had predeceased him by five years.

The carrying out of Federalist principles led, however, to the formation in the republic of a number of quasiindependent military states, and Dorrego only ruled in Buenos Aires.

Fore-feet with five well-developed toes, carrying small, flat, scale-like nails, not reaching the extremity of the digits.

He went to Italy as president of the commission, carrying to the prince at Florence the official news of his election.

At their instance, and carrying with them instructions from the regent and the council, the marquis of Berghen and Hoorn's brother (the lord of Montigny) were persuaded to go to Spain and lay before Philip the serious character of the crisis.

During the month of August bands of fanatical rioters in various parts of the country made havoc in the churches and religious houses, wrecking the altars, smashing the images and pictures, and carrying off the sacred vessels and other treasures on which they could lay their hands.

On the 18th of December 1573 Alva, who to the end had persisted in his policy of pitiless severity, left Brussels, carrying with him the curses of the people over whom he had tyrannized for six terrible years of misery and oppression.

In ancient sculptures and coins he is represented as a young man, habited like a shepherd, and sometimes carrying a sheep on his shoulders.

Mrs. M`Donnell - who was but sixteen - escaped to the British fleet disguised as a midshipman, carrying a basket of vegetables in which her baby was hidden.

In 1651 the Dutch completed a treaty with Denmark to injure English trade in the Baltic; to which England replied the same year by the Navigation Act, which suppressed the Dutch trade with the English colonies and the Dutch fish trade with England, and struck at the Dutch carrying trade.

On the 15th of December 1796 the expedition, consisting of forty-three sail and carrying about 15,000 men with a large supply of war material for distribution in Ireland, sailed from Brest.

Although they held the town but a short time they inflicted very great damage, destroying many churches, further damaging the castles and carrying off much treasure.

Others again, like Michaelis and Rosenmiiller, have supposed that the name Cush was applied to tracts of country both in Arabia and in Africa, but the defective condition of the ancient knowledge of countries and peoples, as also the probability of early migrations of "Cushite" tribes (carrying with them their name), will account for the main facts.

The notorious licentiousness of the sect was the carrying out of their theory into practice.

A more dignified type is the Vatican statue of Silenus carrying the infant Dionysus, and the marble group from the villa Borghese in the Louvre.

This fleet of cable ships now numbers over forty, ranging in size from vessels of 300 tons to 10,000 tons carrying capacity.