carry
1. [ verb ] move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
Synonyms: transport
Examples:

"You must carry your camping gear" "carry the suitcases to the car" "This train is carrying nuclear waste" "These pipes carry waste water into the river"

Related terms: move bring bear lug haul fly return pack pipe_in bucket shoulder port porter chariot port cart aircraft_carrier carrier conveyer_belt transporter
2. [ verb ] have with oneself; have on one's person
Synonyms: take pack
Examples:

"She always takes an umbrella" "I always carry money" "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"

Related terms: have
3. [ verb ] serve as a means for expressing something
Synonyms: express convey
Examples:

: "The painting of Mary carries motherly love" "His voice carried a lot of anger"

Related terms: communicate quantify conduct
4. [ verb ] transmit or serve as the medium for transmission, as of sounds or images
Synonyms: transmit channel conduct convey
Examples:

"Sound carries well over water" "The airwaves carry the sound" "Many metals conduct heat"

Related terms: bring wash_up retransmit pipe_in bring_in transmission conduction conductor carrier_wave conductor
5. [ verb ] bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of
Examples:

"His efforts carried the entire project" "How many credits is this student carrying?" "We carry a very large mortgage"

Related terms: hold
6. [ verb ] support or hold in a certain manner
Synonyms: hold bear
Examples:

"She holds her head high" "He carried himself upright"

Related terms: behave poise stoop piggyback stoop behave carriage
7. [ verb ] contain or hold; have within
Synonyms: hold contain bear
Examples:

: "The jar carries wine" "The canteen holds fresh water" "This can contains water"

Related terms: include surround house retain enclose contain capacity cargo_area
8. [ verb ] extend beyond reasonable limits
Synonyms: execute
Examples:

"carry too far" "She carries her ideas to the extreme"

Related terms: sign effect enforce dispatch
9. [ verb ] continue or extend
Synonyms: extend
Examples:

"The civil war carried into the neighboring province" "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces"

Related terms: continue prolong extend
10. [ verb ] win in an election
Examples:

"The senator carried his home state"

Related terms: win
11. [ verb ] include, as on a list
Examples:

"How many people are carried on the payroll?"

Related terms: include
12. [ verb ] be necessarily associated with or result in or involve
Examples:

"This crime carries a penalty of five years in prison"

Related terms: imply
13. [ verb ] have on hand
Synonyms: stock stockpile
Examples:

"Do you carry kerosene heaters?"

Related terms: have must stock store stockpile stockist
14. [ verb ] pass on a communication
Examples:

: "The news was carried to every village in the province"

Related terms: communicate transport
15. [ verb ] (sport) move, as in hockey or soccer
Synonyms: dribble
Examples:

"Carry the ball"

Related terms: hit sport dribble
16. [ verb ] behave in a certain manner
Synonyms: behave conduct deport bear comport acquit
Examples:

"She carried herself well" "he bore himself with dignity" "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"

Related terms: act hold deal assert fluster walk_around pose hold behavior demeanor bearing
17. [ verb ] include as the content; broadcast or publicize
Synonyms: run
Examples:

"We ran the ad three times" "This paper carries a restaurant review" "All major networks carried the press conference"

Related terms: circulate go_around
18. [ noun ] (transportation) the act of carrying something
Related terms: transportation porterage portage packing fireman's_carry transport hold conduct
19. [ verb ] win approval or support for
Synonyms: persuade sway
Examples:

"Carry all before one" "His speech did not sway the voters"

Related terms: influence
20. [ verb ] keep as a debtor in one's account
Examples:

: "He carried the enumployed customer for several months"

Related terms: keep sustain
21. [ verb ] propel or give impetus to
Examples:

"The sudden gust of air propelled the ball to the other side of the fence"

Related terms: propel transport
22. [ verb ] have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence
Examples:

"This new washer carries a two year guarantee" "The loan carries a high interest rate" "She carries her mother's genes" "The restaurant carries an unusual name"

Related terms: have
23. [ verb ] be conveyed over a certain distance
Examples:

"Her voice carries very well in this big opera house"

Related terms: range conduct
24. [ verb ] be successful in
Examples:

"She lost the game but carried the match"

Related terms: win
25. [ verb ] transfer (entries) from one account book to another
Synonyms: post
Related terms: transfer
26. [ verb ] keep up with financial support
Examples:

"The Federal Government carried the province for many years"

Related terms: sustain
27. [ verb ] (food,agriculture) bear (a crop)
Examples:

: "this land does not carry olives"

Related terms: grow farming
28. [ verb ] pursue a line of scent or be a bearer, as of a dog
Examples:

"fetch and carry"

Related terms: follow
29. [ verb ] transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication
Examples:

"put down 5 and carry 2"

Related terms: transfer
30. [ verb ] (golf) cover a certain distance or advance beyond, as of a ball in golf
Examples:

"The drive carried to the green"

Related terms: travel golf
31. [ verb ] secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions)
Examples:

"The motion carried easily"

Related terms: obtain
32. [ verb ] (music) sing or play against other voices or parts
Examples:

"He cannot carry a tune"

Related terms: perform
33. [ verb ] have on the surface or on the skin
Examples:

"carry scars"

Related terms: bear
34. [ verb ] (military) capture after a fight
Examples:

"The troops carried the town after a brief fight"

Related terms: appropriate capture
35. [ verb ] (food) sustain, as of livestock
Examples:

"This land will carry ten cows to the acre"

Related terms: nourish livestock
36. [ verb ] take further or advance
Examples:

"carry a cause"

Related terms: promote
37. [ verb ] compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance
Examples:

"I resent having to carry her all the time"

Related terms: compensate
38. [ verb ] maintain or support somebody who is weaker or less competent
Related terms: support
39. [ verb ] drink alcohol without showing ill effects
Synonyms: hold
Examples:

"He can hold his liquor" "he had drunk more than he could carry"

Related terms: drink
40. [ verb ] have or possess something abstract
Examples:

"I carry her image in my mind's eye" "I will carry the secret to my grave" "I carry these thoughts in the back of my head" "I carry a lot of life insurance"

Related terms: have must
41. [ verb ] have a certain range, as of guns
Examples:

"This rifle carries for 3,000 feet"

Related terms: have
42. [ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 3393
43. [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 30642
44. [ verb ] be pregnant with
Synonyms: expect gestate have_a_bun_in_the_oven bear
Examples:

"She is bearing his child" "The are expecting another child in January" "I am carrying his child"

Related terms: give_birth expect pregnancy gestation conceive
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