definition of the word carry

From Anglo-Norman carier (modern French: charrier).

• enPR: kărʹē, IPA: /ˈkɜ.ɹi/, SAMPA: /"k{ri/
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• Rhymes: -æri

• Carrie
• Cary

to carry (third-person singular simple present carries, present participle carrying, simple past and past participle carried)

1. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
2. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).

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

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

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

4. (transitive) (arithmetic) 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.

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

5. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).

   Always carry sufficient insurance to protect against a loss.

6. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.

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

7. (transitive, nautical) to capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding

• (lift and bring to somewhere else): bear, move, transport
• (stock, supply): have, keep, stock, supply
• (adopt): adopt, take on, take over
• (have, maintain): have, maintain
• (be transmitted, travel): be transmitted, travel

• (in arithmetic): borrow (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction)

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