carrying
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Definitions ofcarrying
- To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
Example: "to carry an account to the ledger"
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
Example: "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."
- To move; to convey using force
- To lead or guide.
- To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
Example: "The corner drugstore doesn't carry his favorite brand of aspirin."
- To adopt (something); take (something) over.
Example: "I think I can carry Smith's work while she is out."
- To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
Example: "The court carries that motion."
- 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.
Example: "Five and nine are fourteen; carry the one to the tens place."
- To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
Example: "Always carry sufficient insurance to protect against a loss."
- To be transmitted; to travel.
Example: "The sound of the bells carried for miles on the wind."
- To insult, to diss.
- To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To have on one's person.
Example: "she always carries a purse; marsupials carry their young in a pouch"
- To be pregnant (with).
Example: "The doctor said she's carrying twins."
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
Example: "A gun or mortar carries well."
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
Example: "to carry well, i.e. to hold the head high, with arching neck"
- To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
Example: "The Tories carried the election."
- To get possession of by force; to capture.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
Example: "A merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance."
- To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
Example: "He absolutely carried the game, to the point of killing the entire enemy team by himself."
- Transportation.
Example: "carryings away of goods"
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