carryv.

Brit.

/ˈkari/, U.S.

/ˈkɛri/

Forms: Middle English–1500s care, Middle English–1500s karye, Middle English–1600s carie, Middle English–1600s cary, Middle English–1600s carye, Middle English– carry, 1500s–1600s carrie, 1900s– carr' (English regional), 1900s– kerry (Irish English (northern)); also past tense and past participle: Middle English caride, Middle English ykarid. Scottish pre-1700 caire, pre-1700 cairey, pre-1700 cairie, pre-1700 cairrie, pre-1700 cairy, pre-1700 care, pre-1700 carrie, pre-1700 carrye, pre-1700 cary, pre-1700 carye, pre-1700 kare, pre-1700 kary, pre-1700 karye, pre-1700 1700s carie, 1700s– carry; also past tense and past participle: pre-1700 cairit, pre-1700 carit, pre-1700 caryt, pre-1700 karyd; see also carried adj.

Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Probably partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French carier; Latin carriare.

Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman carier, carrier, karier, kerier (also charier ), corresponding to Old French, Middle French charrier (French charrier ) to transport, especially by means of a cart or wagon (c1100 in Old French), in Anglo-Norman also to carry away or off (early 14th cent. or earlier) < Anglo-Norman car , Old French, Middle French char car n.¹; probably also partly < post-classical Latin carriare to transport by land, to take or transport (wheat, hay, etc.) from the field after harvesting (both frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), to transport by water, to carry off (unlawfully), to take (a dead person) to be buried (all from 13th cent. in British sources), to hold, contain (in transportation) (15th cent. in British sources), variant of carricare (see charge v.), probably resulting from association with Anglo-Norman carrier.There is no indication that the core meaning in Anglo-Norman and Middle French ever shifted, as it did in English, from vehicular transportation (frequently of commercial goods) to taking or transporting people or things by means of physical effort (compare sense 3a) or to having or holding something while moving around or along (compare senses at II.*); for these porter and its derivatives are normally used in French (see port v.²). With sense 3c compare slightly later use of French charrier in the same sense (1621; 14th cent. in Middle French in sense ‘(of a hawk) follow and pursue (a bird)’).

I. To transport and related uses.

* To transport or move a person or thing from one place to another.

a. transitive. To convey or transport (goods, people, etc.) from one place to another, esp. by means of a vehicle or vessel.

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society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)]

haveeOE

ferryOE

weighOE

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sashay1928

conduct-

1348 in C. Welch Hist. Pewterers of London (1902) I. 4 If ani be take henforwarde bering or carying suche wareȝ to sel.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4963 (MED) He myhte such a lode To toune with his Asse carie.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xiv. sig. Ciij Al vitailis that vpon cartis he shal doo carye wyth hym.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 44 To the hole destructyon..of al other caryd in theyr schyp.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings ix. 28 His seruants caried him in a charet to Ierusalem.

1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile ii. vi. 61/1 Apples, Oyl, and excellent Wine..they carry over those vast Plains called the Pampa's..in large Carts.

1844 J. H. Carleton Prairie Logbks. 14 Aug. (1983) 23 Many of the men are so weak, we are obliged to carry them in wagons.

1948 G. W. Southgate Eng. Econ. Hist. (new ed.) viii. 72 All trade..had to be carried in British ships.

2005 Wire Dec. 79/3 Graham is carried in the back seat of a van from a hotel to his home after he has taken a double dose of the sedative Halcion.

†b. transitive. To take (a dead person) to be buried. Obsolete.

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the world > life > death > obsequies > [verb (transitive)] > carry corpse

carry1466

to carry out1526

infera1575

1466 Expenses J. Paston's Funeral in Paston Lett. (1904) IV. 228 Geven to Martyn Savage..awaytyng upon my master at London be vii. dayes before that he was caryed, iis. xd.

c. intransitive. Of a person or company: to provide the services of a carrier (carrier n.¹ 1a); to transport goods, mail, etc. Now rare.

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1502–3 Churchwardens' Accts.: Ashburton, Devon in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 48 Item for caryge of þ^e bell to exceter & for ther labour and coste that caryd—iiij s vj d.

1645 J. Milton On University Carrier ii, in Poems 29 If I may not carry, sure Ile ne're be fetch'd.

1733 T. Gent Antient & Mod. Hist. Rippon List of York Carriers (at Sheffield) The Carrier, (who also carries to Rotherham and Barnsley) comes on Wednesday Night to Mr. Meal's at Foss-Bridge End.

1871 Mechanics' Mag. 15 July 38/2 You ought to ascertain whether your customer at Y—— actually received the truss or not; and this you ought to learn from the books of the railway company which carries between London and Y——.

1939 E. C. MacVeagh Summary Neutrality Act 1939 5 Restrictions on American vessels carrying to named belligerent states.

d. transitive. To take or transport (wheat, hay, etc.) from the field after harvesting. Frequently in passive. Now rare.Cf. to carry in at Phrasal verbs.In quot. 2010 in a work of historical fiction.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > carry corn

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1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 50^v Thy haye being carrid, though carter had sworne: carts bottom well boerded, is sauing of corne.

1667 N. Fairfax Let. 5 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 15 Wheat is harvest first, begining about ye end of Aug: they share it & carry it forthwith.

1793 J. Byng Diary 11 July in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 196 Mr. W carried his hay after once turning it... What will the country lasses, accustom'd to turning, raking, cocking, etc, say to this?

1851 H. Mayo On Truths Pop. Superstit. (ed. 2) xi. 170 There is nothing growing there; it is a field of wheat, but it has been cut and carried.

1919 A. Ollivant Two Men liii. 272 In the Brooks..the hay had already been carried fine in quality and light in weight.

2010 J. Ann World's Fair Rose (2011) xvii. 221 Lest they [sc. the hay ricks and the corn stacks] get wet inside and then heat-up and catch fire as often happens when first carried and not dried enough.

a. transitive. Of a car, train, ship, or other vehicle: to transport or convey (a person or thing); to be the means by which (a person or thing) is transported. Also (esp. in early use) of a horse or other animal, in the same sense.

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society > travel > transport > [verb (intransitive)]

carryc1390

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (transitive)] > transport (a person or thing)

carryc1390

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. ii. l. 132 Þenne careden heo for Caples to carien hem þider.

1591 A. Colynet True Hist. Ciuill Warres France v. 330 They caused the Mules which caried the ladders, and other necessarie things, to goe through the fieldes vnto a quarrie of stone nigh the towne.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World i. 2 The Craft which carried us was a Lanch, or Long Boat.

1788 Calcutta Chron. 31 Jan. The next day they got on a dung-cart, which carried them 4 leagues into the country.

1878 H. A. Giles Gloss. Subj. Far East 145 Tea-clipper, a fast-sailing ship, built to carry tea from China to London.

1920 Flight 12 560/1 Increased quantities of heavy and bulky freight being now carried to and from Paris by the Handley Page aeroplanes.

2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 July a4/5 Three buses carrying dozens of athletes, officials and journalists to the Olympic Village from Heathrow Airport lost their way in the maze of London's streets.

b. transitive. Of the action of the wind, the sea, etc.: to cause (a person or thing) to be swept along or away; to move (a person or thing) from a particular place, esp. vigorously or violently.See also to carry away 1a at Phrasal verbs.

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1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xii. 47^v The fishes being carried by the violence of the floud, and tyde of the Euxine Sea into Propontide.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 87 And floating straight, obedient to the streame, Was carried towards Corinth.

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 1 Jan. (1948) I. 147 That's a damn'd lie of your chimney being carried to the next house with the wind.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 363 Blood carries with it the basis of nutrition.

1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) i. ii. 11 The soil may be carried long distances by the agency of water and wind.

1970 P. Berton National Dream iv. ii. 157 He was swept into a river and carried two hundred feet downstream.

2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 9 June a15/1 From time to time gusts of tropical wind carry the downpour sideways.

(a) transitive. To take or transport (a person or thing) from one place to another by means of physical effort, esp. using the hands or arms.The sense of transporting is prominent; cf. sense 28a where the emphasis is on lifting and sustaining a person or thing.

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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > carry

carryc1400

fure1487

port1566

porter1609

tote1677

hug1788

to carry me (also you, it, etc.) (and) go1837

pack1846

hump1853

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] > convey by carrying (of person)

carryc1400

to take up1576

tote1677

porter1791

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1977) l. 1765 Baltaȝar to his bedd with blysse watȝ caryed.

c1450 (c1350) Alexander & Dindimus (Bodl.) (1929) l. 725 Ȝe..carien bi costum corn to hure temple.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xl. 11 He shall gather the lambes with his arme, and carrie them in his bosome.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. i. 25 Ile beare your Logges..Ile carry it to the pile.

1796 M. Edgeworth Lazy Lawrence in Parent's Assistant (ed. 2) I. 74 Did not I order you..to carry these bottles to the cellar?

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 29 Dumple could carry six folk, if his back was lang aneugh.

1976 D. Llwyd Morgan tr. J. Edwards in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories 240 Mam was in the wash-house, carrying hot water from the boiler and was in a lather of sweat.

2000 U. Izundu in C. Newland & K. Sesay IC3 371 I shouted, dumping my bag next to the staircase, which I knew annoyed the hell out of him, because I never carried it upstairs, as I couldn't be arsed. He was a neat freak.

(b) intransitive. To take or transport a person or thing from one place to another by means of physical effort.Cf. to carry double at Phrases 7, to fetch and carry at fetch v. 1d.

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the world > movement > transference > [verb (intransitive)] > carry

bearc1450

carry1587

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 813/1 They were put to carie and draw.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 272 Shee can fetch and carry: why a horse can doe no more; nay, a horse cannot fetch, but onely carry .

1645 J. Marsh Marsh his Mickle Monument 88 Thy Sheephook and thy Tarbox both are mine, I taught thy Dog to carry and bring.

1862 T. H. Huxley On Knowl. Causes Phenomena Org. Nature iv. 105 The ‘Carrier’ [sc. a type of pigeon], I learn..does not carry; a high-bred bird of this breed being but a poor flier.

2003 J. G. McLaughlin Irish Chicago (2004) i. 9 Life was not easy for the early Irish immigrants... They dug, lifted, and carried, and eventually worked their way up and out of their original communities.

b. transitive. Falconry. To walk with or hold (a hawk) on one's hand, when hunting with or training the bird.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > [verb (transitive)] > carry hawk on fist

carry1575

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 125 Then you shall make as though you vncoupled your spanels to hunte and put vp the game, and you shall carry your hawke vnhooded.

a1700 (?c1500) Treatise Hawking (Sloane 2721) in J. E. Harting Perfect Booke for Kepinge Sparhawkes (1886) p. ix (MED) Carry yor hauk much, especially in her sorage.

?1796 W. Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman 364/1 Seek out where wild geese, cranes, or other large wild fowl, lie..carry your hawk unhooded behind your horse, stalking towards them.

1881 E. B. Michell Falconry in Min. in Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 39/2 He [sc. the young hawk] is ‘carried’ for some hours amongst men, children, dogs, and horses, so as to become accustomed to their presence.

1964 F. L. Beebe & H. M. Webster N. Amer. Falconry & Hunting Hawks xxvii. 216/2 The first evening and the following day the new Kestrel should be carried and introduced to many new sounds and sights.

2014 H. MacDonald H is for Hawk iii. 20 They carried hawks on their fists: orange-eyed goshawks..with barred grey tails and breast feathers of vermiculated snow.

c. intransitive. Falconry. Of a hawk: to fly away with the quarry.

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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > actions of Falconiformes

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jouk1486

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to turn taila1586

carry1614

1614 S. Latham Falconry i. iv. 14 Affirming that Doves will make Haggards carrie: which is not so, for that is idlenes and want of skill in their keepers, that causes them to Carry.

1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation 85 If you doe it oftner, she will become in time very loth to part with the Pelt, and by this means you will provoke her to carry.

1826 J. S. Sebright Observ. Hawking (1828) 8 Less disposed to carry, i.e. to fly away with the game; a fault to which all hawks are more or less inclined.

1986 B. B. Broughton Dict. Medieval Knighthood & Chivalry 85 A hawk was said to ‘carry’ when she flew away with the quarry as the falconer approached.

2014 B. Crane Sparrowhawks (e-book ed.) As soon as your spar or musket starts to move on to smaller legal quarry you will be able to see if the hawk carries.

4. transitive. To take or convey (a letter, message, news, etc.) to a person or place.

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society > communication > information > message > send a message or messenger [verb (transitive)] > bear or take (a letter, message, etc.)

carryc1450

c1450 (c1350) Alexander & Dindimus (Bodl.) (1929) l. 184 And bad him in haste To þe king..carien his sonde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 104 Nay Sir, lesse then a pound shall serue me for carrying your Letter.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 870 These tidings carrie to th' anointed King.

1786 J. Scott tr. I. Khan Memoirs 32 I declined going, and observed, that I could not carry intelligence so very ridiculous and groundless.

1873 J. Johnston Hist. Bristol & Bremen in State Maine xviii. 192 John Nelson..learned of the preparations in progress for an attack upon Pemaquid, and hired two French soldiers to desert and carry information of the fact to Boston.

1950 Winnipeg Free Press 11 Jan. 22/7 He went from the lowliest job in the financial district—a runner carrying messages—to one of the highest.

2020 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 Apr. (Final ed.) a14 Abraham had died within 24 hours of his wife, before anyone had carried the news to him.

a. transitive. To oblige (a person) to go somewhere, esp. as a prisoner or captive; to take (a person) somewhere by force. Also (now only) with noun complement, as in to carry (a person) captive, prisoner, etc.

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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > catch or capture [verb (transitive)]

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takeOE

alatchlOE

catchc1275

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to take ina1387

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geta1400

overhent?a1400

restay?a1400

seizea1400

tachec1400

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nibble1608

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cop1704

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to give a person the foot1767

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rope1877

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > deprive of liberty by restraint [verb (transitive)] > take captive > carry off as captive

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a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) l. 981 (MED) Herbard caried dalton..to the Castelle of Gloucetter; There was dalton prisonere ful longe.

1654 Weekly Intelligencer 4 Apr. 215 Amongst whom were some young Lairds, and others, who..were all of them taken, and carried prisoners to Dalkeith.

1665 S. Pepys Diary 10 Aug. (1972) VI. 186 My she-Cosen Porter..to tell me that her husband was carried to the Tower.

1791 S. Freeman Town Officer 47 They shall apprehend him, and carry him before some Justice of the Peace.

1837 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Ireland I. 243/2 Having separated his lordship's family and the garrison, [he] carried them prisoners to Kennard.

2002 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 16 Oct. 17 At the age of 16, he was carried captive into Antrim by the Scots.

b. transitive. To take or escort (a person) to a place; to conduct. archaic or regional in later use (now chiefly Caribbean or U.S. regional).Frequently used in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, where modern English typically has take.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > show (the way) [verb (transitive)] > accompany as a guide

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conduec1330

conductc1400

convey14..

condc1460

conducec1475

convoyc1480

carrya1522

wain1540

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gallant1806

usha1824

trot1888

get1984

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. i. 57 The Troianys..by power of hie Iove ar hiddir cary.

1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. E4 He carried him to his Palace, a most pleasant coole edifice.

1660 S. Pepys Diary 27 Feb. (1970) I. 70 My landlord carried us through a very old Hospital.

a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 5 My Father..carried his Wife with three Children unto New England.

1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. iv. 51 Mrs Campbell..no doubt used the Scotticism, ‘Carry any ladies that call up stairs.’

1882 J. Payne tr. Bk. Thousand Nights & One Night I. xxxi. 291 As soon as it was night, the servant came to him and carried him to the house.

1934 C. Carmer Stars fell on Alabama 155 He started runnin' liquor just to get money to carry his girl to parties.

1994 S. Moodie-Kublalsingh Cocoa Panyols Trinidad 173 in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 175/1 She remain in the mad house for 25 years! When I was a little boy my uncle carry me to see she once or twice.

c. transitive. To take or conduct (a vessel or vehicle, a horse, etc.) to a place; to cause (a vessel, etc.) to travel a certain distance.

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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)]

sit1542

saddle1551

carry1613

endorsea1637

set1648

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)]

governa1387

sail1566

manure1569

manage1600

carry1613

navigate1652

work1667

skipper1883

1613 W. Shute tr. J. J. Orlers & H. van Haestens Triumphs of Nassau 75 Peter Vander Does, who carried the sayd vessell and the other likewise into Zeland, which afterward through carelesnesse and negligence sanke.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 2 He that can carry a Ship to Lisbon, may with the same Ease carry it round the World.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 20 May 49 The Lady carried her horse a thousand miles in a thousand hours.

1818 R. Jamieson in E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (ed. 5) I. 66 The Scots..talk of..getting upon the back of a cart-horse, and carrying him to grass.

1845 J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Exped. Rocky Mts. 260 They rarely carried home horses, on account of the difficulty of getting them across the desert.

1988 TnT Mirror 19 Apr. 32 in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 175/1 Licensing officers will no longer be going to police stations to visit vehicles involved in serious and fatal accidents. The cops will have to carry the vehicles to the licensing departments.

1998 D. F. Marley Wars of Americas 490/2 The crew of the Uruguayan schooner Palmar also mutinies and carries the vessel into Buenos Aires.

d. transitive. Backgammon. To move (a man) to or from a particular part of the board. Now rare.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [verb (transitive)] > actions

bear1550

point1680

carry1743

1743 E. Hoyle Short Treat. Back-gammon ii. 12 When you carry your Men home, in order to lose no Point, you are to carry the most distant Man to your Adversary's Barr Point, that being the first Stage you are to place it on.

1820 Hoyle's Games Improved 296 Six and five, a man to be carried from your adversary's ace-point, as far as he can go, for a gammon, or hit.

1883 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 620 If the winner has borne all his men off before the loser has carried all his men to his own table, it is a backgammon.

1941 M. Hopper Backgammon iv. 52 Try to play your throws so that each number will carry a man into your home table.

6. transitive. Of wind: to propel or drive (a vessel and its passengers) across a body of water.intransitive in quot. 1737.

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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > of wind: propel or convey a vessel or person

carry1526

waft1653

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xxvii. 17 We let doune a vessell and soo were caryed.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Nauis The shippe flitteth beyng caried with winde and sayle.

1654 Perfect Acct. Intelligence Armies & Navy No. 194. 1548 Gen. Blake is still here with part of the fleet looking only for his victualling ships, and a fair wind to carry him on his intended Voyage.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 72 The wind, which carries one into the port, drives another out to sea.

1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. vi. 9 Where winds can carry, or where waves can roll.

1866 A. D. Taylor West Coast of Hindostan Pilot xii. 300 The equator will soon be crossed, and the S.W. monsoon will carry the vessel towards Hindostan.

1995 D. Miller Wreck Isabella 176 They set off and a fine Westerly carried them past Loup's Head before nightfall.

(a) intransitive. Of a gun or other weapon: to propel a missile a particular distance, or in a particular way. Now rare.

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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > project through space > to specific distance or in specific way

carry1558

range1858

1558 Ld. Wentworth Let. 2 Jan. in State Papers Foreign Mary (P.R.O.: SP 69/12) f. 13 The ennemyes..w^th their corriors (w^ch assuredly shote very great boulet & cary farre).

1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery ii. 4 After you have made one shot, and finde the Peece carry just over the Marke.

1730 W. Webster Compend. Course Pract. Math. II. 207 When a cannon seems to carry point blank, or to raise its stroke, the line of aim is not parallel to the cavity of the cannon.

1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius viii. 226 About as high as a crossbow can carry.

1938 Title to Submerged Oil Lands: Hearing before Comm. Judiciary (U.S. House of Representatives: 75th Congr., 3rd Session) 182 Rivers, lakes, estuaries, straits, and gulfs, especially those which do not extend the ordinary width of double the distance a cannon can carry.

†(b) intransitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. With adverb indicating manner, as in carry level, carry true, etc. Obsolete.

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1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iii. sig. E Welcome Basilisco, thou wilt carry leuell, and knock ones braines out with thy pricking wit.

a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 19 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) Hee, that saluteth a man as farre off as his eye can carry levell.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §3 Scholars are men of Peace, but..their pens carry farther, and give a lowder report than thunder.

1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 377 His eye for a fine, telling phrase that will carry true is like that of a backwoodsman for a rifle.

b. intransitive. Of a ball, bullet, or other projectile: to be propelled a particular distance, or in a particular way.

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1800 J. Williams tr. H. O. Scheel Treat. Artillery iii. 96 Cannister shot made in this manner will carry very far.

1875 R. Clark Golf 213 The balls carried considerably higher than the weather-cock.

1976 Field & Stream Oct. 164/3 Some hunters use No. 4 buckshot or BBs. on the theory they will carry further—which indeed they will.

2008 G. Morris Conspiracy of Ravens v. 66 You know how far a rifle bullet can carry.

c. transitive. Golf. Of a player, a club, etc.: to strike and propel (a ball) forwards; to cause a ball to travel (a distance), or pass (a particular point, obstacle, etc.) at a single stroke. Also intransitive: to propel a ball a certain or sufficient distance. Later also in other sports. Cf. carry n.¹ 7c.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > play at ball [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball

hang1838

carry1861

pass1889

1861 Handy Bk. St. Andrews xxx. 112 Mr John Graham..carried a ball..right over the two bunkers, on to the lower putting green of the second hole.

1887 W. G. Simpson Art of Golf 155 Many prefer it [sc. a dragging shot] to an ordinary loft at shortish distances, the latter being more difficult within, say, thirty yards than when the player has further to carry.

1887 W. G. Simpson Art of Golf 184 His game is easily insulted by being made to go round, or play short of, a bunker, it ought to be allowed to try to carry.

1903 J. Braid in E. F. Benson & E. H. Miles Bk. Golf 30 At a greater distance where the mashie will not carry I should very often use an iron.

1929 Morning Post 17 June 16/2 Off the next ball—a full-pitch—he only just failed to carry the ring.

1953 B. Locke On Golf ii. xvi. 117 It is important at times to be able to hit very high iron shots to carry formidable obstacles, such as big bunkers or even trees.

2014 Today's Golfer Mar. 56/1 The rescue club is a reliable favourite and carries an ideal distance with only a 20% chance of going off line and into the bunkers.

a. transitive. Of a channel, drain, pipe, or other conduit: to allow (something, esp. water, sewage, etc.) to pass from one place to another.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > convey by a channel or medium

conductc1420

derive1483

channel1560

carry1565

convey1601

conduit1628

transmit1664

1565 J. Hall Anat. 2nd Treat. vi. 26 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. Water pypes carye water from the conduict head to serue a whole citye.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xxvii When it begins once to carry a more forcible streame it is called Tigris.

1750 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria (1752) 733 The Canal..serves to carry the water..to this city.

1886 Law Times 81 59/2 A 9-inch sewer, which carried the drainage from the houses into the main brick sewer.

1947 Amendments to Nat. Gas Act: Hearings before Comm. Interstate & Foreign Commerce (U.S. House of Representatives, 80th Congr., 1st Sess.) 360 From Montana a large natural gas pipe line carries natural gas into the Dakotas and Nebraska.

2001 Model Engineer 186 122/3 The upper pair of pipes carry steam from the superheater to the cylinders.

b. transitive. Originally: to convey (sound, sense impressions, etc.). In later use spec.: (of a wire, cable, nerve, conducting medium, etc.) to conduct (an electric current or signal, nerve impulse, sound wave, etc.).

ΚΠ

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 500 Like as the voice of a man carried in a trunke, reed, or hollow thing.

1655 Physical Dict. in N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick sig. Nnnn^v Visive Nerve, the seeing Nerve. The Sinnew wherewith the Objects of sight are carried into the Brain, to the Imagination or Commonsence.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 172 This air strikes and affects the auditory nerves, which carry the sound to the brain.

1835 M. Faraday in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 125 48 The conducting power of the connecting system A B D was sufficient to carry all the primary current.

1882 G. W. Cox Little Cycl. Common Things 186/2 The air in the drum of the ear also helps to carry the sound-waves.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 394/2 The dendrites carry the sensory impulse to the nerve-cell.

1992 IEEE Spectrum Mar. 43/2 Those lines..carry bulk power from generating stations to substations.

2014 Guardian 31 July 26/4 Copper wires will carry the signal the rest of the way to the doorstep.

9. transitive. To extend or continue (esp. a built structure) in a given direction, or to a particular height, length, etc.See also to carry up 4 at Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [verb (transitive)] > lengthen

elongc1420

protend?a1475

lengthen1555

extend1569

produce1570

prolong1574

elongate1578

carry1587

run1630

continue1667

to run outa1670

prolongate1671

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1543/2 They carried the crosse wall through the chanell (a thing verie strange and difficult) and so did they not the long wall.

1704 Dict. Rusticum at Lapis Calaminaris To prevent damps in their Work, they should carry Air-shafts with them, as in Lead-Mines.

1772 S. Denne & W. Shrubsole Hist. Rochester 28 Gundulph did not carry this tower to the height it now is.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 154 The defences were not carried down to the water.

1902 Proc. Oxf. Archit. & Hist. Soc. 6 4 To bridge the Cherwell and carry a road from north Oxford over Norham Manor.

1982 A. Lewis Amer. Country Houses of Gilded Age 97 Walker carried the wall too high and increased the impression of rawness by contrasting it with Medford granite.

1991 Pract. Householder Apr. 13/1 Using a carpenter's square and Stanley knife, carry the pencil line around all four sides of the piece of timber.

10. transitive. Of food, money, or other essentials: to be capable of providing for or sustaining (a person) until a particular place or point in time is reached; to last (a person). With prepositional phrase indicating the place or time.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > be sufficient for [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person > for a specified time

lastc1175

carry1589

wear1815

to see over ——1875

1589 R. Lane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 746 That he would leaue vs so much shipping and victuall, as about August then next followyng, would cary me and all my companie into England.

1674 T. Hardcastle Christian Geogr. & Arithm. 72 To fret and perplex my self, how I should have provisions to carry me or my Family through the wilderness of this World.

1703 J. Burchett Mem. Trans. at Sea 359 They intended to take in Provisions, for which they were so much streightened, that they had not enough to carry them to the Havana.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 695 A scanty stock of silver, which..was to carry the nation through the summer.

1961 J. Carew Last Barbarian 56 I brought enough money to carry us through the day.

2017 Valdosta (Georgia) Daily Times (Nexis) 3 July Children can count on getting breakfast and lunch at the school, and many are given backpacks with food to carry them through the weekends.

11.

a. transitive. Bookkeeping and Accounting. To transfer (an item) from one account, ledger, etc., to another, or from one part of an account to another (e.g. from the debit to the credit side). With to or into. Now rare.See also to carry back 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry forward at Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures

control1422

avouch1539

allocate1551

respond1588

score1592

carry1652

post1707

to carry forward1721

off-reckon1721

O. Ni.a1726

to carry over1745

rule1845

to write down1876

to close off188.

qualify1884

accrue1915

net1947

gross1954

strip1980

1652 W. Bagwell & J. Brockedon Full Discov. Foul Concealment 14 The ballance due from the said Committee &c. to the Common-wealth by this Accompt the 25 of March 1644 carried to the credit side of the said Common-wealth in fol. 15. is—4873—2—0.

1694 in E. Hatton Merchant's Mag. (1697) x. sig. Bb Carried to Ledger, fol. 1.—1251 [li.] 8[s.] 5[d.].

1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 2) I. Suppl. iii. 124 This carrying things from the Journal..to the Ledger..is call'd, posting.

1829 Age 25 Oct. 342/2 Among the items carried to the credit account of the last quarterly return of the revenue, was a sum of £120,121 received..for the purchase of the City Canal.

1907 S. H. Goodyear et al. Mod. Inductive Bookkeeping i. 44 The cash item is checked in the Sales Book when carried to the Cash Book.

2006 K. Gupta School Managem. xvii. 302 All entries made in the cash book are carried to the ledger in their respective accounts.

b. transitive. To transfer (a number, digit, or remainder) from one column or place to the next in an arithmetical calculation, typically when a column of digits adds up to more than ten.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > transfer to next column

refer1588

to have (also bear, keep, hold, etc.) in mind1612

carry1657

1657 W. Leybourn tr. J. de Billy Arithmetick, Vulgar, Decimal, & Instrumental i. 16 In the addition of drams to make a prick at every 16, setting down the remainder and for every prick carrying a unite to the next place.

1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. 29/2 Add each column separately, and carry the overplus as before, from one column to another.

1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 26 Nov. 544 You are to put down the 4 and carry 2.

1915 Internat. Steam Engineer 15 Mar. 173/1 Write down the 9 and carry the 10 to the next column.

2017 C. Cross Game Theory (new ed.) (e-book, accessed 2 Sept. 2020) xi You forgot to carry the one.

†12. transitive. To shoot (an animal) down. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by shooting

shootc893

shootc1275

to blow away1523

carry1653

to shoot (a person) down1845

stop1845

blow1871

ventilate1875

Maxim1894

poop1917

to blow apart1920

smoke1926

clip1927

cowboy1941

zap1942

Sten-gun1949

to light up1967

slot1987

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xlix. § i. 190 Having discovered this game [sc. wild boars], we got as near to them as we could, and discharging amongst them, we carried two of them to the ground.

13.

a. transitive. Of a road, way, journey, etc.: to take or lead (a person) to or through a place. With prepositional phrase indicating the place or direction.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > journey [verb (transitive)] > (of a journey) take one somewhere

carry1675

1675 J. Ogilby Britannia 45 You come to Brereton Hill..with a good Inn, whence a direct Road carrieth you to Rugeley.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 482 The next Days Journey carry'd us through other Parts of the Canton of Bern, to the little Town of Meldingen.

1870 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 742/1 A by-path carried me through fields into a public road.

1981 J. B. Grieder Intellectuals & State in Mod. China (1983) iv. 122 His wanderings carried him from Darjeeling to Denver; from Luxor to London to Lapland.

2003 J. R. Lennon Mailman i. iii. 164 One leg of the route carried him over the Zabriskie Bridge..and thus past Renault's house.

†b. transitive. Of a mission or duty: to induce or compel (a person) to go to a place. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards or approach (a thing, place, or person) [verb (transitive)] > cause to come or go to

lenda1200

carry1874

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §1. 213 A mission..carried him [sc. Chaucer] in early life to Italy.

1879 I. K. Goode Foot-prints of Life 34 That sense of duty carried her to the bedside of the Prince of Wales when..he was struck down..by the fell disease under which his father had sunk.

14. Esp. in Hunting.

†a. intransitive. Of a hare: to pick up soil or other matter on the feet, with the result that the hounds lose the scent. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1677 [implied in: N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 97 There are other places wherein a Hound can find no Scent; and that is in..rotten ground, and it sticketh to the Foot of the Hare, which is called Carrying. (at carrying n. 1a)].

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 76/1 She carryeth, is when a Hare runneth on rotten ground, or in the Frost, sometimes it sticks to her feet.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) When an Hare runs on rotten Ground, or sometimes on Frost, and it sticks to her Feet, the Huntsmen say She carries.

1801 W. B. Daniel Rural Sports I. 268 It is common to hear it said, the Hare carries; but that is not all, for by what has been alleged, it is plain she is not so eagerly pursued by the scent of her Feet only.

b. intransitive. Of soil: to stick to the feet, horses' hoofs, etc. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > be or become attached or affixed [verb (intransitive)] > remain attached > adhere > to the feet or hoofs

carry1892

1892 Field 30 Jan. 155/2 The frost..caused the fallows and seeds to ‘carry’ a good deal, and they could only hunt very slowly.

1892 Field 30 Jan. 156/3 An expanse of ploughed soil which ‘carries’ considerably.

1930 C. Frederick et al. Foxhunting 339 Carry, to. When after a frost the ground is picked up by hounds' feet or foxes' pads.

†15. transitive. To continue to experience (something, such as a view or particular conditions) as one travels along. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > accompany or attend [verb (transitive)] > have as an accompaniment

carry1777

1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal iv. 35 We descended into a hollow way, which we carried with us to Aranjuez.

1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal ix. 83 We carried a mountainous country along with us, on the left hand.

1857 Jrnl. 27 Sept. in Mercantile Marine Mag. Jan. (1858) 9 I carried a steady Trade [wind], all sail set.

16. intransitive. Of sound, a smell, etc.: to be transmitted, esp. through the air, so as to be perceived at a distance. Cf. carrying adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > be or become audible [verb (intransitive)] > carry

carry1875

1875 Examiner 1 May 500/1 There is not a trace of the amateur in Mrs. Fairfax's Lady Gryffyd, unless perhaps in an occasional failure to make her voice carry effectively through the house.

1895 Boy's Own Paper 6 July 632/1 In the night-time, along the cliffs, sound carries a long way.

1979 Pop. Sci. July 88/3 The heat didn't carry very far.

1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 25 Dec. 16 a Fires still burned in some parts of the downtown area, and the smell carried across the Bridge of the Americas leading into the city.

2002 S. L. Carter Emperor Ocean Park xv. 188 Voices carry, Talcott. Couldn't help overhearing the other night. You and your wife..had quite a set-to.

** Figurative and extended uses.

17. transitive. To take or continue (a course). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > continue (an action) [verb (transitive)]

i-haldOE

to hold fortha1325

sustainc1325

containc1330

continuea1340

maintainc1385

carrya1393

keepc1425

to keep upa1535

to stick by ——1551

to hold on1568

to hold out1595

to carry on1609

subsist1633

to keep at ——1825

the world > action or operation > behaviour > follow (a course of behaviour) [verb (transitive)] > adopt a course

gangOE

carrya1393

adopta1616

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > choose [verb (transitive)] > choose to do something > choose (a course, etc.)

carrya1393

adopta1616

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 3292 Ne yit the Mone, that sche carie Hire cours along upon the hevene.

18.

a. transitive. To transfer (an immaterial thing, such as a quality, practice, way of thinking, etc.) to or from a particular sphere of action or influence.In quot. c1443: to transfer (merit) to a person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > specifically of immaterial things

carryc1443

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 183 (MED) Þanne oon man..myȝte carie, translate, or applie þe valew and fruyt of his vertuose werk to an oþer man.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Iii But at his ende caryeng it out of this worlde with hym, he shal neuer dye.

1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 5 Aug. 1/1 If we carry our Thoughts from the Corporeal to the Moral World.

1876 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 1 Jan. Jefferson was no crazy abstractionist. He carried no Utopian dreams into politics.

1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors iii. 64 The surgeons..could not resist carrying with them into the obstetrical field their practice of blood-letting.

2017 New European 10 Feb. 26/2 New Labour squandered the good will it carried into office pretty sharpish.

b. transitive. To cause (something) to be taken, passed, or transferred to a particular person, place, institution, etc.See also to carry the war into the enemy's camp at Phrases 10.

ΚΠ

1571 E. Newcomen tr. Def. & True Declar. Thinges done in Lowe Countrey sig. H.i^v Platoe, and the other philosophers dyd wyth long & diuers trauellinges learne their wisedomes..& from straunge peoples and far nations carry the knowledge therof into Grece.

1607 E. Grimeston tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 778 France grew quiet, yet must they imploy the Souldiars, and carry the warre into the Spaniards country.

1715 J. Gardiner Pract. Expos. Latter Pt. Serm. on Mount vi. 128 Submitting to the Loss of our Cause, if it be given against us, without vexatiously carrying the Suit from Court to Court.

1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. xii. 243 Heritable rights may be carried from the debtor to the creditor, either by the diligence of apprysing, (now adjudication) or by a judicial sale carried on before the court of Session.

1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 51 It does not appear, that this case was ever carried to the House of Lords.

1956 J. Barth Floating Opera (1988) x. 89 Everyone was a little afraid to carry the thing to court immediately.

1999 J. F. Watts & F. L. Israel Presidential Documents (2000) 70 This hostility grew to such proportions that the South Carolina legislature carried the issue to the voters.

19.

†a. transitive (in passive). to be carried with: to be influenced by something, so as to behave in a foolish or uncharacteristic way. Cf. carried adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > extravagant or rapturous excitement > be affected by extravagant or rapturous excitement [verb (intransitive)]

to be carried with1561

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. ix. §1 They are not caried with such giddinesse [tantâ vertigine raptari].

1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. iv. 109 If their heads were not carried with the notice which the foolish people..took of them.

b. transitive. Frequently in passive. Esp. of a strong emotion such as desire or longing: to move (a person, the soul) to a particular state or course of action; to influence the thoughts or feelings of (a person).Cf. to carry away 2 at Phrasal verbs.See also to be carried with at sense 19a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)]

rineOE

afaite?c1225

stir?c1225

movea1325

amovec1380

inspire1390

commove1393

informa1398

toucha1400

embracec1430

rore1481

alter1529

to carry away?1529

raise1533

removea1540

heavec1540

affect?1548

carry1570

inmove1583

infecta1586

worka1616

unthaw1699

emove1835

emotionize1855

emotion1875

the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate > drive, impel, or incite

enforce1542

pulsec1550

carry1570

pusha1578

propel1830

drive1838

1570 Tressoun of Dumbartane in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 171 Crabit but cause, and caryit by thy sensis.

1574 St. Avstens Manuell in Certaine Prayers S. Augustines Medit. sig. qiij^v The soule..is caried with desirousnesse, drawen with longing.

1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 335 Subiect to flatterers, who carried him to their pleasure.

1608 P. Golding tr. J. Sleidane Epit. Frossard iii. 152 The king..was altogether carryed by this man, in such sorte as he both neglected and hated his vnckles in respect of him.

1879 E. Moore tr. K. R. Hagenbach Hist. Reformation Germany & Switzerland II. xxi. 97 It is saddening to observe the lengths to which Luther suffered himself to be carried by passion.

1996 E. Lovelace Salt xii. 242 The music was carrying him. It was taking him over. He was going deep down inside it.

20. transitive. Chiefly with through. To enable (a person) to withstand or overcome a difficult situation or task; to give (a person) the means to cope with something.Cf. to carry through 2 at Phrasal verbs.

ΚΠ

1569 T. Norton To Queenes Deceiued Subj. sig. F.iv Alas, what be these [men] to carry you through the serious and earnest dangerous enterprise that you haue in hand.

1662 Bk. Common Prayer Collect 4th Sunday after Epiphany Such strength and protection as shall..carry us through all temptations.

1741 Bp. J. Butler Serm. before House of Lords 16 The Love of Liberty..carries us to withstand Tyranny.

?1751 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) i. 3 I will recommend to Mr. Leech to carry you quite through Virgil's Æneid.

1923 Life 1 Mar. 18/1 Cyril Keightley goes back to his sensible but one-dimensional wife..without even the memory of a good, normal affair to carry him through the long winter evenings.

2020 J. Hazeley & N. Tatarowicz Instr. for Brit. People during Emergency 8 The ability to laugh in the face of adversity has carried them through many a trouble.

†21.

a. transitive. To conduct or manage (an incident, situation, event, etc.). Obsolete (archaic in later use).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer

steerc888

leadc1175

guyc1330

guidec1374

governa1382

ministera1382

treat1387

administer1395

dispose1398

skift?a1400

warda1400

solicit1429

to deal with1469

handlea1470

execute1483

convoy?a1513

conveyc1515

mayne1520

to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handa1522

keepa1535

administrate1538

solicitate1547

to dispose of1573

manure1583

carry1600

manage1609

negotiate1619

conduct1632

to carry on1638

mesnage1654

nurse1745

work1841

operate1850

run1857

stage-manage1906

ramrod1920

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 212 This well caried, shall..Change slaunder to remorse.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 79 When Discords, and Quarrells..are carried openly.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 451 The elections were carried with great heat.

1846 R. Browning Soul's Trag. in Bells & Pomegranates No. VIII ii So will you carry matters, that the rest of the world must at length unite and put down such a den of wild beasts.

b. transitive. With it. To act or behave in a particular way. With adverb or adverbial phrase indicating the manner in which a person acts. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)] > manage or administrate

administrate1567

lead1579

manage1603

carrya1616

conduct1677

to fix it1836

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 135 We may carry it thus for our pleasure.

1639 J. Shirley Maides Revenge iii. sig. E3 She will carry it so, that Valasco shall bee suspected.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 306 Sir Jacob carried it mighty stiff and formal.

1844 T. B. Macaulay Barère in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 337 The informer has sometimes been directed to carry it fair towards his accomplices, and to let the evil design come to full maturity.

22. transitive. To develop, pursue, or extend (a quality, practice, concept, or other immaterial thing) to a particular point or stage. Frequently in to carry (something) to extremes (also to excess, too far, etc.) and variants: to be immoderate or excessive in one's actions, behaviour, opinions, etc.; to take (something) to an extreme point.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > advance (a proceeding) from previous stage [verb (transitive)] > carry to a farther or spec. limit

go1577

carrya1631

push1676

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > do (something) to excess [verb (transitive)]

overdoOE

to carry (something) to extremes (also to excess, too far, etc.)a1631

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > occur to [verb (transitive)] > extend

carrya1631

a1631 J. Donne LXXX Serm. (1640) liv. 535 It is a godly thing to fast uncommanded, but to neglect it being commanded, is an ungodly..perversnesse, sayes the same Father. But then another carries it to a higher expression, Desperationis genus est, tunc manducare, cum abstinere debeas.

1674 T. Tanner Call to Shulamite 13 It is not at all to the prejudice of the Church, but may be rather to her benefit, that certain points be not carried..in extremes.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 119. ¶5 This kind of Good Manners was perhaps carried to an Excess.

1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) v. 67 The highest, and most generous Notions of Friendship. How high does Cicero carry it in his first Book of Laws.

1871 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 239 Mr. Carlyle has another way. He carries the process a step further.

1896 Monist 6 462 Nietzsche carries his propositions to such extremes that..they become in the end ridiculous.

a1927 D. Hammett Dead on Pine St. in Nightmare Town (1999) 211 After a time it stopped being funny. You carried it too far.

1998 T. A. J. McGinn Prostitution, Sexuality, & Law in Anc. Rome ix. 329 It was, of course, a different matter for a gentleman of rank to set foot in a brothel. Such behavior was tolerated of young men, provided the freedom was not carried to excess.

†*** To travel energetically.

23. intransitive. To go or travel vigorously or speedily; to proceed rapidly. Chiefly with adverb or prepositional phrase indicating direction. Obsolete.See also to carry about 1 at Phrasal verbs, to carry forth at Phrasal verbs. [Probably influenced by association with cair v. (a borrowing from early Scandinavian).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)]

lakeOE

flyOE

runOE

scour13..

jace1393

hie1398

spina1400

fleetc1400

glentc1400

stripc1400

suea1450

carryc1450

speed1488

scud1532

streek1598

winga1616

to clip it1616

hackney1617

swifta1618

whirryc1630

dust1673

whew1684

race1702

stroke1735

cut1797

spank1807

skid1815

speela1818

crack1824

skimmer1824

slap1827

clip1832

skeet1838

marvel1841

lick1850

travel1850

rush1852

zip1852

sail1876

rabbit1887

move1906

high-tail1908

to ball the jack1914

buzz1914

shift1922

giddap1938

burn1942

hoosh1943

bomb1966

shred1977

c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) l. 554 (MED) Thenne raughte I fro religion..And caried to closes and cathedralle churches.

c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. l. 302 Whanne realles remeveth and ridith þoru tounes, And carieth ouere contre.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. iv. 100 In haist Hercules com at hand Wyth furius mynd careing ouyr the land.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. xi. 136 Lat ws follow that way, and thiddir cary.

1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 638 in Wks. (1931) II. 60 Als fast as ȝe may cary [1602 carie], Speid ȝow with diligence.

**** To take by force or effort.See also expressions related to this sense at Phrases 3.

24.

a. transitive. To take (something) away, esp. by force or effort. Also in extended use: to succeed in obtaining (something). In later use chiefly (now only) in to carry the victory: to win a victory; to be victorious.See also to carry the day at day n. 13, and to carry off 4 at Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > win (any contest or prize) > win (a prize, etc.)

to bear awayc1325

getc1330

winc1330

to go away with1489

to carry away1565

carry1570

to bear off?1615

to carry off1680

to take out1976

1570 Tressoun of Dumbartane in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 173 Gone is thair game,..Thair cattell caryit, thair Granges set in fyre.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Enchere,..any Portsale, Outrope, or bargaining, wherein he that bids most for a thing is to carrie it.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xxvii. 152 He had carried the Consulship for a Frend of his.

a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 379 Consider..what the Issue may be, if the Tempter should carry thy Choice.

1735 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. V. 57 He had carried the prize of the horse-race in the Olympick games.

1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlii. 48 He strove to carry with his own hand the victory.

2015 Afr. News (Nexis) 25 Feb. The Amsterdam boys carried the victory after scoring a brilliant goal to snatch the vital three points.

†b. transitive. With it. To prevail; to gain the advantage; to be superior in order or importance. Obsolete.See also to carry it away at to carry away 3c at Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win

win1297

obtain1441

to go away with it1489

triumph1508

to carry (also get, lose, win, etc.) the day1557

to bear it1602

carry1602

to carry away the bucklers1608

to carry one's point1654

to carry it off1828

to ring the bell1900

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. ii. 63 He wil cary it, he wil carit, Tis in his betmes he wil carite.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xviii. 351 Revelation must carry it, against the probable Conjectures of Reason.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Raffling The Raffle is properly the double or triplet. A Raffle of Aces, or Duces, carries it against meer Points.

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 181 Though I have described the towns of Magindano and Selangan as making one, the name Selangan carries it generally over the other.

1870 E. M. Goulburn Cathedral Syst. i. 7 Man's good is indeed most closely interwoven with God's glory; but where the two come into collision, the second must carry it over the first.

25.

a. transitive. To take or capture (a town, position, ship, etc.) by military assault; to seize; to win by conquest.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > capture or acquire by conquest

i-wina1000

wina1122

fang?c1200

catchc1275

conquer1297

geta1400

stealc1400

conquer1475

conquest1485

conques1488

evict1560

carry1579

intake1646

constrain1700

capture1796

society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > take by storm

sturmec1275

expugn?a1475

expugnate1568

carry1579

enforce1579

to take by storm1687

rush1863

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 37 Being out of hope to carie the towne by assault, they retyred to the porte of Lyuorne.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 110 The Towne would haue beene carried in the end.

1720 J. Burchett Compl. Hist. Trans. at Sea iii. xix. 384 Lawson..pressed so hard upon De Ruyter, that he had like to have carried him.

1797 J. Jervis in A. Duncan Life Nelson (1806) 46 The rear-admiral..with the assistance of some other barges, boarded and carried two of the enemy's gun-boats.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. i. 24 Heavy guns were brought up..and preparations were made to carry the fort by storm.

1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. x. 181 Howe directed eight regiments..to carry this position.

2009 L. E. Babits & J. B. Howard Long, Obstinate, & Bloody Introd. 1 Two years later the British returned. A surprise attack on Savannah in late December 1778 carried the town in less than an hour.

†b. transitive. figurative and in extended use: to win over (a person, the understanding, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)] > succeed in influencing

prevaila1400

to prevail withc1450

carrya1616

to prevail upon1656

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vii. 19 The Count..Layes downe his wanton siedge before her beautie, Resolue to carrie her.

1622 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer Pref. To court the affections and..by their help, to carry the understanding.

a1635 R. Sibbes Learned Comm. 2 Cor. i. (1655) 415 How are we in Christ? By knowing him; and then knowledge carries our hearts.

1863 C. H. Spurgeon Metrop. Tabernacle Pulpit VIII. 291 Do you not remember that glorious hour when he carried our hearts by storm..planting on our strongholds the blood-red flag of his atoning mercy?

1884 C. Reade Perilous Secret I. xiii. 263 He..always kept his temper and carried everybody, especially the chaplain.

26.

a. transitive. To gain support or approval for (a matter, issue, etc.), esp. in the face of opposition from others; to achieve a favourable result for (a person or thing). Now chiefly in to carry an election: to win an election. Also in †to carry one's candidate: to achieve victory for one's candidate.See also to carry one's point at Phrases 3b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > be successful with against opposition

carrya1620

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [verb (transitive)] > gain control of in an election

to carry an electiona1620

carry1848

sweep1892

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. i. §5. 7 Arguments..sufficient to carry the matter.

1636 J. Davenport Apologeticall Reply 45 The choyse of officers in Corporations is done by common vote, the major part of voyces carrying the election.

1723 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 9 The magistrates, council, and several of the elders..have carried a call for Mr. John Hepburn..to a vacancy there.

1742 J. Ralph Other Side of Question 246 They carried the Court-Candidate for the Chair, by upwards of sixty.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 125 The government had been unable to carry its measures.

1997 Philadelphia Daily News (Nexis) 5 Nov. (Local section) 5 Saidel's campaign manager..said he was proud that his candidate was carried by Democrats everywhere.

2005 J. W. Loewen Sundown Towns vii. 186 One individual cannot carry the issue without at least some support from a larger public.

2012 D. H. Fischer Fairness & Freedom 156 He carried the election by sixteen votes.

b. transitive (chiefly in passive). To gain approval for (a resolution, bill, motion, etc.) in a meeting or assembly, by obtaining a majority of the votes; to succeed in getting (a resolution, etc.) passed or adopted.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [verb (transitive)] > pass motion or bill

carry1640

snap1883

to nod through1976

1640 Order & Manner of Sitting (single sheet) They divide the House, the Speaker saying, As [many as]..doe allow the Bill, goe downe with the Bill, and as many as doe not, sit still: Thus..the most voyces carries it.

1666 A. Marvell Let. 3 Dec. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 47 Upon division of the House..'twas caryed for the Provisos being committed.

1782 London Mag. Sept. 441/1 The premier, by means of Mr. Pitt, Lord Grantham, and Mr. Townshend, carried the vote.

1875 Votes & Proc. Legislative Assembly New S. Wales IV. 292 Do you recollect whether the motion was carried unanimously?

1982 Convent. Proc. Internat. Assoc. Industr. Accident Boards & Comm. 165 It has been duly moved and seconded that the 7th Resolution by Glenn Adams be adopted...All those in favour signify in the usual manner. All those against? Carried.

2010 Irish News (Nexis) 28 June 24 The amendment was carried on a vote.

c. transitive. North American. To win or gain (a state, a district, etc.) in an election.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [verb (transitive)] > gain control of in an election

to carry an electiona1620

carry1848

sweep1892

1848 J. R. Lowell in Anti-slavery Standard 28 Sept. 70/6 I thought our ticket would ha' caird the country with a resh.

1905 D. G. Phillips Plum Tree ix. 123 We, our party, carried the state, as usual. Our legislative majority was increased by eleven.

1965 T. C. Sorensen Kennedy viii. 212 I told him [sc. J. F. Kennedy]—mistakenly as it turned out—that he had carried California.

2014 C. S. Bullock in S. E. Buchanan & B. D. Kapeluck Second Verse, Same as First iv. 60 Obama carried six of the state's largest counties—those with at least 100,000 registrants.

II. To support or sustain and related uses.

* To have or hold while moving along or around.

27.

(a) transitive. To have or keep (something) with one when moving from place to place, going about one's work, duties, etc.; to bear, wear, or hold (something), either habitually or on a particular occasion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > while moving > habitually

bearOE

carryc1400

c1400 (c1382) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 266 It is not liklyche þat Crist, þat dide alle his dedis bi resoun, schulde carie a swerd in a scaberge.

1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries ii. f. 68 Below the Scaffolde was the knight Marshall carrying a red wande in his hande.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 149 Deacons, for a difference from the Priests, carried a round wreath of white cloth.

1720 J. Burchett Compl. Hist. Trans. at Sea iii. xix. 398 The victorious Fleet..under the Command of the Earl of Sandwich, who carried the Standard.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 97 If you carry a Nutmeg in your Pocket, you'll certainly be marry'd to an old Man.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 46 We do not know whether they are to carry arms.

1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Y i. ii. 50 He was dressed in a cool linen shirt, a leghorn hat, white shoes, and he carried a rattan stick.

2003 N.Y. Mag. 4 Aug. 15/1 He campaigned against violence, but he carried a gun...And he made sure everybody knew about it.

(b) intransitive. To have a gun (or sometimes knife) on one's person.

ΚΠ

1956 E. Hunter Jungle Kids 102 They all talked it up, figuring who was gonna be the first to die, in case Django was carrying.

1994 Malahat Rev. Spring 28 ‘Could be carrying,’ Siren says...Davis thinks about this. ‘Wouldn't he have shot us by now if he was carrying?’

1998 K. Sampson Awaydays 6 I keep telling him to retract the blade when he's carrying—it causes havoc with the lining of your jacket.

2004 E. Conlon Blue Blood xiii. 494 Tell me for real—you got a gun at home? Who does? You know who's carrying? Let's help each other out.

b. transitive. To bear (something) inside one's body, or part of one's body. Also: to contain (something).See also to drink more than one can carry at Phrases 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > containing or having within > contain or have within [verb (transitive)]

holdc1000

takec1175

keep1340

harbour1362

containa1382

comprehend1393

comprise1483

carry1517

house1542

refrain1542

to fetch in1565

enharbour1596

inhold1614

reserve1614

1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xvi. 60 My sadde body my heuy hert dyde cary.

1650 R. Heath Clarastella 57 You that carried Summer in your lips..That in the Apples of your cheeks did wear A fertile Autumn now no fruit can bear?

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. ii. vi. 56 Many..of our European venemous Animals carry their Cure..in their own Bodies.

1880 Daily Tel. 3 Dec. Valuable carbonates of lead, which carry silver.

1944 G. Heyer Friday's Child (1960) xv. 180 Good God, don't I carry a broken heart in my breast?

2010 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 9 Aug. a8 The common ragwort plant..carries a deadly poison and can spell death to grazing animals.

c. transitive. Of a woman or other female mammal: to be pregnant with (offspring). Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > carry in womb [verb (transitive)]

bearOE

breedc1000

enfaunt1483

carry1561

enwomba1616

expect1800

gestate1866

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Ff.iiii^v A wanton lief in women is lesse to be borne withall then in men, that carie not their children nine monthes in their bodye.

1651 P. Armin tr. F. Glisson et al. Treat. Rickets xix. 210 Weak & unsound women likewise..do conceive, carry their children nine months, and bring them forth in a decent and laudable manner.

1774 Ld. Kames Sketches Hist. Man I. i. vi. 224 Wolves and foxes copulate in December: the female carries five months, and brings forth in April.

1776 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1831) III. 458 Mrs. Thrale is big, and fancies that she carries a boy.

1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 361 The mother supposed to be now carrying a third child.

1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xxvii. 251 It's just my day of the month and even when you're carrying you sometimes feel it bad.

2008 R. Beard Becoming Drusilla (2009) xiv. 299 Femaleness is neither defined by sexual orientation, nor the ability to carry a child, nor a liking for salads and cats.

d. transitive. To be an infected carrier of (an agent or disease), esp. without displaying symptoms (cf. carrier n.¹ 11a). Also: to be a carrier of (a specific gene or inherited trait) (cf. carrier n.¹ 11b).

ΚΠ

1894 Med. Rec. 29 Sept. 396/1 Healthy children who were carrying the bacilli in their throats.

1911 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 6 May 875/2 It would seem that the patient had carried typhoid bacilli in her gallbladder for eight years.

1972 Science 13 Oct. 141/3 At least one airline stewardess was grounded after her company found she carried sickle cell trait.

1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 244 Would you selectively abort if you knew your unborn carried the gene for some to-come disease?

2020 J. Hazeley & N. Tatarowicz Instr. for Brit. People during Emergency 19 While it may appear safe to go out and fly a kite in an empty field, one has to bear in mind that the conditions for being able to do so will allow any airborne diseases you are carrying to be transmitted up to a thousand miles from your mouth or nose.

28.

a. transitive. To support the weight of (a person or thing) while walking or moving along; to bear.The sense of lifting and sustaining is prominent; cf. sense 3a(a) where the emphasis is on transporting a person or thing.See also as fast as one's legs can carry one at Phrases 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)]

carry1570

to carry along1582

take1738

the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > while moving

through-bear1554

carry1570

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 104/1 The myracles of the foresayd Helenus..howe he caried burnyng coales in hys lap.

1642 N. Bernard Whole Proc. Siege Drogheda 35 A woman..carrying a paile of water upon her head.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. vii. 51 I thank Heaven my Legs are very able to carry me.

1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 6 Warriors carry the warrior's pall.

1958 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Sept. 712/1 A common complaint of these patients is inability to carry a heavy package on the affected side.

2010 D. P. Nolan Loss Prevention & Safety Control (2011) 281 Individuals also place themselves at risk if they lift and carry materials improperly, risking back injuries.

b. intransitive. To transport a canoe, boat, etc., over a portage, esp. by lifting it onto the shoulders or back.

ΚΠ

1755 L. Evans Geogr. Ess. 17 The Canoe Men are often obliged to carry over Land.

2001 R. Wiebe Sweeter than all World 58 A journey here to Lastfire Lake for fall caribou once required three or four weeks,..fifty-seven portages on tumplines, even the little children carrying.

c. transitive. Sport. To move while in possession of (the ball, puck, etc.); esp. to advance (the ball, puck, etc.) towards the opponent's goal or goal line; (American Football and Canadian Football) to run with (the football), esp. on a running play (running play n.); cf. rush v.² 11a. Also intransitive.For figurative uses of the phrase, see to carry the ball at ball n.¹ Phrases 1l.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [verb (transitive)] > play ball in specific way

tossc1530

send1782

place1819

dowf1825

loft1857

belt1870

screw1881

smash1882

English1884

carry1889

slice1890

mishit1903

balloon1904

rainbow1906

rifle1914

tuck1958

stroke1960

1889 St. Nicholas Dec. 172/2 He realizes that twice have his ten men carried the ball for him up to the very door of victory, only to see him close that door in their faces.

1910 Western Intercollegiate Mag. Dec. 28 Every one except the center has been used in carrying the ball or running interference for the backs.

1956 Southwest Times (Pulaski, Va.) 23 Sept. 2/4 Bakhtiar..carried 27 times today for a 7.7 yard average.

1964 F. Mahovlich Ice Hockey vii. 44 Should the centre be carrying the puck, his left or right wingman should cut sharply into the goalmouth area.

2019 P. Caputo Hunter's Moon 11 I carried the ball on short-yardage plays; otherwise, I was a blocking back, assigned to shield our star from some slab of blitzing beef who'd penetrated the line.

d. transitive. Basketball (originally U.S.). To allow (the ball) to rest in one or both hands while dribbling, in violation of the rules.

ΚΠ

1909 North Adams (Mass.) Transcript 1 Feb. 2/1 Immediately after that another foul was called for carrying the ball and this time Dinn made the goal.

2019 Waterloo (Ont.) Region Record (Nexis) 23 Apr. c1 Titans guard Ed Horton was called for carrying the ball on the subsequent possession.

29. transitive. To have or keep (something) in the mind or thoughts; to bear in mind.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > think or have in mind [verb (transitive)]

holdOE

thinkOE

makea1400

carry1583

entertain1583

lodge1583

conceit?1589

reflect1611

braina1616

the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > retain in the memory [verb (transitive)]

i-mune971

to have (also bear, keep, hold, etc.) in minda1200

withholdc1200

membera1382

treasure1382

demeanc1460

mindc1460

retain1474

keep1574

to take (a thing) with one1577

carry1583

weara1586

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. vii. 355 O let vs carrie some greater care to obserue his will.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 107 I carried once a purpose, to build a little woodden banqueting house.

1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §91. 105 We ought to carry that Distinction in our Thoughts.

1878 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 1st Ser. 195 To carry ever with us the unmarked, yet living tradition.

1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 17 Aug. (Sports section) 61 Groves and six of his teammates were starters on that team and remember the feeling of humiliation. They will carry those thoughts with them into this season.

2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Apr. 89/3 I am sure I carry much goyische opinion with me.

30. transitive. Of a particle, atom, ion, etc.: to bear or possess (an electric charge or comparable property).

ΚΠ

1873 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism I. 261 When P moves away from the earth-spring it carries this charge with it.

1930 J. H. Jeans Universe around Us (ed. 2) ii. 119 Each proton carries a positive charge of electricity.

1981 D. Wilkinson in J. H. Mulvey Nature of Matter i. 26 The gluons that flit between the coloured quarks must also carry colour.

2005 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) July 32/3 All fields have a property called spin, an intrinsic quantity of angular momentum that is carried by each of their particles.

** To support, or be capable of sustaining or supporting.

31.

a. transitive. To bear the weight of or support (something); to provide physical support for (something which would otherwise fall, collapse, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)]

to bear upeOE

underbearc950

bearOE

holdc1000

weighc1200

to hold up1297

upholda1300

sustainc1330

undersetc1330

comforta1382

underbear1382

upbear1390

sustaina1398

upkeepc1412

carrya1425

supporta1425

chargea1500

convey1514

avoke1529

confirm1542

stay1548

to carry up1570

bolster1581

lift1590

upstay1590

atlas1593

sustent1605

statuminatea1628

firm1646

appui1656

establish1664

shoulder1674

to keep up1681

upheave1729

withhold1769

a1425 (a1396) R. Maidstone Paraphr. Seven Penitential Psalms (BL Add. 39574) l. 604 in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 44 Vpon þe tre my neest was narowe, There-on myȝte I no briddis carye.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §530 To make Ground-Herbes rise in Heighth: As for example; Carry Camomill, or Wilde-Thyme..vpon Sticks, as you doe Hops vpon Poles.

1774 W. Gostling Walk Canterbury xxxi. 136 The stretchers are very substantial and deep walls of stone pierced in such patterns as make them..an ornament: They are carried on arches from this pillar to two other principal ones.

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. i. 30 The palace has seventeen main arches..carried by thirty-six pillars.

1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 59 The thick skin which carries the hair.

2001 Flying May 66/3 For every pound increase in weight the structure must be able to carry an additional 2.8 pounds without permanent deformation.

b. transitive. Of a plant: to bear (seeds, leaves, fruit, etc.), esp. in a particular manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > grow, sprout, or bear fruit [verb (transitive)] > bring forth, produce, or bear

bearOE

makea1325

showc1330

yielda1400

producea1513

carry1577

hatch1592

throw1738

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 59 There is an other kinde of Rape that they vse to sowe, whiche carryeth his seede in little coddes, and is cheefely planted in Germanie for to make Oyle.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §425 They will put forth many, and so carry more Shoots vpon a Stemme.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 2 This Plant..carries its Seed in little Bunches or Clusters on its Top.

1828 H. Steuart Planter's Guide 368 The Trees of the present year..all carried a healthy leaf.

1912 J. F. Moody Compl. Work Pruning Fruit Trees 67 Many of these varieties [of pear] can be made to carry their fruit on the laterals.

2012 Guardian 17 Sept. 9/3 In the Goose Orchard, where cider apple varieties such as yarlington mill..usually thrive, many trees are bare or carrying just a few miserable fruit.

c. transitive. Stock Market (originally U.S.). To hold, rather than sell, (stock, securities, etc.); (also) to bear the cost or risk of holding stock for (a customer).

ΚΠ

1848 W. Armstrong Stocks & Stock-jobbing Wall-St. 10 It is nominally considered that the stock is meanwhile ‘carried’ or possessed by the seller.

1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 77 When a broker agrees to ‘carry’ stock, he says, Seven per cent, unless the market tightens.

1898 Times 7 Oct. 3/4 One telegram..said:—‘If you buy and carry 1,000 Met. [sc. orders for the stock of the Metropolitan Railroad of New York] for me, I will shake the plum tree.’

1917 A. W. Atwood Exchanges & Speculation 51 In common parlance the customer trades on a ‘margin’. Expressed in another way the broker ‘carries’ the customer for all except a small part of the cost.

1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power ii. 27 Practically anyone who knew a broker by name could buy stock on ten percent margin... And on Wall Street brokers would simply ‘carry’ a favored customer. The buyer made no down payment at all.

2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 Dec. b14 (advt.) Until a stock goes public or becomes a cashable entity, we can carry it on our books and have it work for us.

d. transitive. Esp. of a shop or other business: to hold or keep a certain amount of (goods, stock, etc.); to keep (a particular product) in stock.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > have for sale or sell habitually

sellc1000

keep1706

carry1866

stock1884

1866 Daily Clarion (Jackson, Mississippi) 1 Apr. Carrying at all times a mammoth stock of every conceivable kind and character of goods belonging to his line..he makes it to the pecuniary advantage of every druggist to purchase their supplies at his house.

1879 Industries Pittsburgh; Trade, Commerce & Manufactures 163 He is now proprietor of the fine and well stocked shoe store at the corner of Penn ave. and 33d st., in which he carries a very complete and choice stock of Boots and Shoes.

1917 H. B. Twyford Purchasing & Storing 325 It is not economical to carry in stock several variations of articles of a similar nature.

1963 J. Mitford Amer. Way of Death 233 Casket and Sunnyside is carried in only six eastern libraries.

2013 Straits Times (Singapore) 23 Aug. (Urban section) 7/1 The Singapore-based online store officially opened yesterday and carries second-hand designer accessories and apparel.

e. transitive. Originally U.S. To provide financial or other support for (a person, organization, etc.); to be responsible for the success of (a person or thing). Also: to bear the burden of or support (a person who or thing which is not up to the required standard).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [verb (transitive)] > support one not contributing effort

carry1879

1879 Bradstreet's 8 Oct. 4/4 He is forced to pay on loans necessary to ‘carry’ the farmer.

1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 877/2 The men of business..have for years carried the New York Academy of Music.

1934 H. L. Beales & R. S. Lambert Mem. Unemployed 108 He was an oldish man and couldn't stand his turn, but as we worked in gangs the rest of us carried him.

1936 Daily Mail 6 Jan. 18/2 The drama..is sombre and somewhat out of date, but the acting of the star carries the film.

2009 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Black Country ed.) (Sport section) 86 None of the teams with any designs on trying to be successful can afford to carry players.

32. transitive. Nautical. Of a vessel or crew: to sail with (a certain amount of sail, or a particular disposition of sails).See also to carry sail at sail n.¹ 2a.

ΚΠ

1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya ii. 35 The winde blewe muche at Northeast, so that we coulde beare but onely a bunt of our foresayle, and the Barkes not being able to carrie any sayle at all.

1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. iii, Loom-Gale, is a gentle easie Gale of Wind, in which a Ship can carry her Top-sails.

a1827 W. Hickey Mem. (1960) xiii. 207 It blew so hard we could scarcely carry a close-reefed mainsail and storm-jib.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. x. 290 I fear, sir, we cannot carry the main-sail much longer.

1986 T. Enright tr. T. O'Crohan Island Cross-talk 156 A heavy sea was running and the currach could not carry her sail.

2000 C. D. Whiteman Mountain Meteorol. v. 66 Beaufort's original wind speed scale was based on the amount of canvas that a full-rigged frigate could carry.

33. transitive. To bear or endure (something difficult or distressing). rare after 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)]

thave835

i-dreeeOE

tholec897

abeareOE

underbearc950

adreeOE

dreeOE

driveOE

i-tholeOE

throwOE

underfoc1000

bearOE

bidec1200

suffera1250

abidec1275

drinka1340

endure1340

underfong1382

receivec1384

abyea1393

sustain1398

finda1400

undergoa1400

get?c1430

underganga1470

ponder?a1525

a dog's lifea1528

tolerate1531

to stand to ——1540

to feel the weight of?1553

enjoy1577

carry1583

abrook1594

to stand under ——a1616

to fall a victim to1764

the mind > emotion > suffering > suffer mental pain [verb (transitive)]

thave835

i-dreeeOE

tholec897

underbearc950

adreeOE

dreeOE

driveOE

i-tholeOE

throwOE

underfoc1000

bearOE

takec1175

bidec1200

suffera1250

leadc1330

drinka1340

endure1340

wielda1375

underfong1382

receivec1384

sustain1398

finda1400

undergoa1400

underganga1470

ponder?a1525

tolerate1531

to go through ——1535

to feel the weight of?1553

enjoy1577

carry1583

abrook1594

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. ix. 485 He is a slaue to the thing that he gapeth for, and to make vp his mouth he will carie any thing.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 48 Mans nature cannot cary The affliction, nor the force.

1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. iii. 192 Queen Anne did not carry her death so decently.

1995 J. Durso in W. McDonald N.Y. Times Bk. of Dead (e-book ed.) Mantle..carried his afflictions with grace and humor.

34.

a. transitive. To bear or produce (a crop); to be capable of sustaining (a particular crop). Also: to support, or be capable of supporting (livestock).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [verb (transitive)] > bear or sustain crop

carry1605

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > provide pasture [verb (transitive)] > support cattle

carry1605

1605 R. Dallington Suruey Great Dukes State Tuscany 36 The same ground which hath carried this crop..is againe presently tilled, and sowed with Miglio, Panico, Sagina, or some pulse or other.

1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 166 The foot of every brook in the Highlands..carries amazing crops of lint.

1802 J. Somerville Let. 12 Nov. in Facts & Observ. Sheep (1803) 10 The same land, which carried forty-five breeding ewes, was immediately stocked with 150 Ryelands in their stead.

1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xvi. 275 The cold central plain did not carry the olive.

1931 A. D. Hall Soil (ed. 4) vii. 232 A first sowing of lucerne on land that had never carried the crop before gave weakly, unnodulated plants.

2000 Leyland's Austral. Winter 33/1 The property..carries 3,000 Brahman cattle.

b. transitive. To support or contain (a particular size of population).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > balance of nature > population > [verb (transitive)] > carry population

carry1854

1854 Daily News 14 Dec. 3/2 A territory of 76,500 square miles, carrying a population of five million souls.

1905 19th Cent. Nov. 816 Mackay, with back country carrying about 15,000 people.

2013 D. Nakassis in J. Englehardt Agency in Anc. Writing x. 236 The palatial site of Pylos..the center of a polity of ca. 2,000 square kilometers carrying a population of approximately 50,000 individuals.

†35. transitive. Cards. To retain rather than discard (a card of a particular suit or value). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play a card [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics

to hold up?1499

decardc1555

to turn up1580

discard1591

pulla1625

to sit out1659

face1674

to make out1680

to lay out1687

to throw away1707

lead1739

weaken1742

carry1744

to take in1744

force1746

to show down1768

throw1866

blank1884

block1884

cover1885

unblock1885

pitch1890

1744 E. Hoyle Short Treat. Game Piquet ii. 20 Which of these Suits are you to carry?

1820 Hoyle's Games Improved (new ed.) 121 Suppose elder-hand, that you have the ace, queen, seven, eight, and ten of clubs, also the ace, knave, seven, eight, and ten of diamonds, carry the ace, knave, seven, eight, and ten of diamonds.

1876 C. H. Wall tr. Molière Bores ii. ii, in tr. Molière Dramatic Wks. I. 294 I carry the ace of clubs, the ace, king, knave, ten and eight of hearts, and throw out, as my game lay in point, king and queen of diamonds, ten and queen of spades.

36. transitive. To support (a supposition, inference, analogous case, etc.); to give validity to. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > support, corroborate

fasteneOE

i-sothea925

sustainc1325

witness1362

approvec1380

confirmc1384

affirma1393

justifya1393

to bear outa1475

corrobore1485

uphold1485

nourisha1522

underpinc1522

to countenance outa1529

favoura1530

soothe1544

strengthen1548

comfort1593

second1596

accredit1598

evidencea1601

warrantise1600

compact1608

back1612

thickena1616

accreditate1654

shoulder1674

support1691

corroborate1706

carry1835

to give (also lend) colour1921

1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism vii. 298 The end being of infinite moment carries all means and makes all lawful.

1885 G. Denman in Law Times Rep. 53 785/1 It is impossible to say that any one case is so in point as to carry this case.

2001 L. E. Sandelands Male & Female in Social Life 34 We have evidence enough to carry the supposition that the human group is a unity over and above the persons it includes.

37. transitive. Music. To produce (a note, tune, etc.) accurately; to sing (something) in tune. Frequently in negative constructions with to carry a tune, as in he can't carry a tune.

ΚΠ

1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm ii. 26 She ‘carried’ the alto by ear.

1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) Introd. p. viii A musical mind is adept in carrying the key of C without assistance of instrument or pitch pipe.

1997 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 17 Jan. (Weekend section) 3 Drew Barrymore lip-syncs to somebody else's vocalizations—apparently the actress can't carry a melody to save her life.

2009 Hana Hou! (Hawaiian Airlines) 88/1 Jenkins was a wealthy dowager who thought she was a great soprano—but who couldn't, in fact, carry a tune.

38. transitive. Originally U.S. Of a newspaper, magazine, etc.: to print or publish (an article or other material). Also of broadcast media: to transmit; to broadcast.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > appearance in the press > carry an article [verb (transitive)]

carry1906

society > communication > broadcasting > [verb (transitive)] > of a station

carry1906

1906 Weekly Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 18 Apr. 7/1 No magazine carrying an article headed ‘The Treason of the Senate’ should be allowed in an American home.

1925 Brainerd (Minnesota) Daily Dispatch 15 Jan. 7/1 Kinograms film company placed the day's events in its news movies... The radio carried the story too.

1929 E. Wallace Kennedy the Con Man iv, in Red Aces 178 We carry big ads. in all the papers.

2004 T. Wheeler Falklands & S. Georgia 173/1 The Falklands Islands Broadcasting Station (FIBS) produces local programming and also carries news from the BBC.

*** To move or behave in a particular manner.

39.

a. transitive. To hold or move (the body, head, etc.), esp. in a particular way. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial phrase indicating the manner in which the body, head, etc., is held.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > place into or assume a posture [verb (transitive)] > hold a posture

holda1387

carry?1561

?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding ii. sig. Iviii See that youre horse..carrye his heade, necke, legges, and whole body orderlye.

1723 S. Morland Specimen Lat. Dict. 12 His coming to an Estate makes him carry his Head so high.

1724 London Gaz. No. 6258/3 Stolen..a Mare..does not carry her Tail well.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xiv. 329 It is called Tapacolo, or ‘cover your posterior’; and well does the shameless little bird deserve its name; for it carries its tail more than erect.

1976 K. Reddick Horses 43 The Timor's large, straight-profiled head is carried on a short, thick neck.

2004 New Yorker 2 Feb. 78/3 She carried her wide-hipped, rangy body warily, as if it might detonate.

b. transitive (reflexive). To move or hold one's body in a particular way. With adverb or adverbial phrase indicating the manner of moving; also with adjective complement.

ΚΠ

1602 A. Munday tr. 3rd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. xxi. f. 49 Shee carryed herselfe with such a stately gesture, that the Ladies of the Court (noting theyr loue seruants to eye her so entirely) beganne to wexe iealous and doubtfull of them.

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 10 Nov. (1948) II. 409 Stella is naturally a stout walker, and carries herself firm.

1870 Ohio Educ. Monthly Jan. 8 Carry yourself erect. In standing, let the knee of the supporting limb be firm.

1915 F. H. Burnett Lost Prince (1971) xix. 166 One of them would have been a handsome lad if he had not carried himself slouchingly.

2007 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 29 July 26 My friend Christina has an enviable ease and fluidity in her movement and she carries herself in the most upright and dignified fashion.

†c. intransitive. Of a horse: to hold the head in a particular way. Chiefly with well or low with reference to a horse's tendency to hold its head properly lifted, or in too low a position respectively. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > assume or hold a posture [verb (intransitive)] > hold body in a posture

carry1696

1696 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Parfait Mareschal i. lxxxi. 234 This Bit Mouth is for a horse which hath a Mouth somewhat Fickle,..and inclines to Arm himself against his Counter, or to Carry low.

1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. i. at Wind A Horse that carries in the Wind, is one that tosses his Nose as high as his Ears, and does not carry handsomely.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Raise is likewise used for placing a horse's head right, and making him carry well, and hindring him to carry low, or to arm himself.

1829 London Encycl. V. 194 A horse is said to carry well, when his neck is arched, and he holds his head high.

d. transitive. Nautical. In phrases referring to the tendency of a sailing vessel to head into or away from the wind. Frequently in to carry weather helm: to have a tendency to head into the wind if the tiller is released (see weather-helm n.); to carry lee helm: to have a tendency to head to leeward if the tiller is released (see lee-helm n.).

ΚΠ

1757 Regulations & Instr. relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea (Royal Navy) (ed. 9) 232 How she proves in sailing through all the Variations of the Wind..how many Knots she runs in each Circumstance; and how she carries her Helm?

1836 F. Marryat Pirate iii, in Pirate & Three Cutters 23 ‘How does she carry her helm, Matthew?’ inquired Oswald... ‘Spoke a-weather’.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 190 A screw ship carries more weather helm than a sailing ship.

1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 407/1 A sailing craft is said to carry lee helm when the helm has to be kept alee to counteract slackness and keep it on its course.

2010 Yachting Monthly Apr. 36/3 It's not a good system for boats that carry a lot of weather helm.

40.

a. transitive (reflexive). To conduct oneself; to behave in a particular way to or towards others. With adverb or adverbial phrase indicating the manner of behaving; in earlier use also with adjective complement.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave or conduct oneself [verb (reflexive)]

wieldOE

leadc1175

bear?c1225

steera1250

to take onc1275

contain1297

to shift one's handa1300

demeanc1320

guyc1325

govern1340

keep1362

havec1390

rulec1390

guide14..

conceivea1425

maintain?a1425

maynea1425

behavec1440

disporta1450

orderc1487

use1497

handle?1529

convey1530

gesture1542

treat1568

carry1584

deport1598

bestow1606

comport1616

mienc1680

conduct1706

the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave or conduct oneself [verb (reflexive)] > behave towards another

carry1584

1584 tr. Y. Rouspeau in tr. Two Treat. Lord his Holie Supper i. 23 We must praie vnto God, that by his grace we may so carrie our selues towards him in holines.

1612 W. Strachey Lawes 80 He is to carry him selfe discreete, temperate, quiet and friendly.

1668 S. Pepys Diary 4 Nov. (1976) IX. 347 The Duke of York doth..carry himself wonderful submissive to the King.

a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 74 My Sisters..carried themselves very kindly to me.

1880 Time Feb. 580 He was sobered; he carried himself responsibly.

2003 Early Amer. Lit. 38 475 The New Englanders carried themselves toward the Indians, ‘not with violence and intrusion, but free and faire’.

†b. intransitive. To behave; to conduct oneself. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave, conduct, or bear oneself [verb (intransitive)]

i-bereeOE

workeOE

makeOE

fere1154

walka1200

steera1250

to take onc1275

fare1340

to fare with oneself1340

containa1375

to let latesa1400

usea1400

dealc1400

rulea1425

act1593

comport1616

carry1650

deport1667

demean1678

behave1721

conduct1754

to carry on1828

1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 95 He craved the advise of the Assemblie how to carie in the mater.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. ii. vii. 285 It is an action of very great Prudence to carry even between adulation and sowreness.

1726 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 269 I hope the youth will carry so as he may not be ashamed of the God of his fathers.

†41. transitive. To exercise (a function, power, influence, etc.). Obsolete.See also to carry a great stroke at stroke n.¹ 3d.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [verb (transitive)]

wieldeOE

bearOE

rulea1393

sway1575

carry1598

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 22 The Lieutenant..in the absence of his Captaine, carieth his roome, charge and command.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 513 These Kings shall not be able to carry that sway and greatnesse,..which that great Monarch bore before them.

42. transitive. Military. To hold (a weapon) in an upright position resting on the shoulder, as when on parade or giving a salute. Chiefly in to carry swords (frequently in imperative).Cf. carry n.¹ 4, carried adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (transitive)] > position weapons

charge1509

trailc1550

present1579

recover1594

return1598

handle1621

rest1622

port1625

slope1625

reverse1630

to order arms1678

carry1779

1779 T. Hindle Exercise Company of Foot 43 Carry Arms; 2 motions. From Slope Arms. 1st. The butt of the firelock is brought down with the left hand as low as is customary in shouldering, the right hand placed at same time under the lock.

1795 Memorandums of Field Exercise Cavalry 11 At the word ‘Carry Swords,’ the proper position is to be instantly resumed.

1797 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (rev. ed.) App. 254 Carry swords! Eyes—right!

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 265 Reliefs are to carry their Arms when passing Officers who are dressed in their Uniforms.

1929 Times 8 July 16/2 When the Royal carriage passed through the Horse Guards Archway the guard carried swords, and a trumpeter sounded the Royal Salute.

2016 @agrowen 11 June in twitter.com (accessed 9 Dec. 2020) Cough sweets & port for a lost parade voice? I think I'll get by with zeal for my Queen & Country. ‘Mounted Troops Carry Swords!’

**** To have as an attribute, quality, feature, etc.

43.

†a. transitive. To have (specified dimensions). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > have specific dimensions [verb (transitive)]

carry1578

1578 J. Frampton tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Briefe Descr. Portes Weast India 25 At the end of the land is the entrie of the baye of S. Thome, and y^e bay doth returne vpon the cape Southeast .xlv. leagues, and carieth in length and breadth .xv. leagues.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 382 The height of the West arched roofe..carrieth an hundred and two foot.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 96 The walls yet show you what compasse it carryed.

b. transitive. To have (a particular weight).See also to carry weight at weight n.¹ 12b.

ΚΠ

1809 D. Price Syst. Sheep-grazing Romney Marsh ii. 50 They say that the long-legged sheep will fetch the greater price; for they stand up higher in the pens, and seem to carry more weight than the short-legged.

1904 Daily Chron. 17 Aug. 4/7 The machine indicated that the Member for East Sydney ‘carried’ 18st. 4½lb.

1982 B. MacLaverty Time to Dance (1985) 84 If you ask me, you're carrying too much weight.

2015 T. Hartmann Death in Pines v. 34 I guessed he carried maybe 210 pounds.

44.

(a) transitive. To exhibit or display (a characteristic, attribute, quality, etc., which may be perceived by the senses).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > [verb (transitive)]

uppec897

atewOE

sutelec1000

openOE

awnc1175

kithec1175

forthteec1200

tawnec1220

let witc1275

forthshowa1300

to pilt out?a1300

showa1300

barea1325

mythc1330

unfoldc1374

to open outc1390

assign1398

mustera1400

reyve?a1400

vouchc1400

manifest?a1425

outshowc1425

ostendc1429

explayc1443

objecta1500

reveala1500

patefy?1509

decipher1529

relieve1533

to set outa1540

utter1542

report1548

unbuckle1548

to set forth1551

demonstrate1553

to hold forth1560

testify1560

explicate1565

forthsetc1565

to give show of1567

denudec1572

exhibit1573

apparent1577

display?1578

carry1580

cipher1583

laya1586

foreshow1590

uncloud?1594

vision1594

explain1597

proclaim1597

unroll1598

discloud1600

remonstrate1601

resent1602

to bring out1608

palesate1613

pronounce1615

to speak out1623

elicit1641

confess1646

bear1657

breathe1667

outplay1702

to throw out1741

evolve1744

announce1781

develop1806

exfoliate1808

evince1829

exposit1882

pack1925

1580–1 Act 23 Elizabeth I ix. §2 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. iv. 671 Whiche Coulers, althoughe they carrye a shewe of a good true and perfitte couler.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. B^v That Lady trew, Whose semblance she did carrie vnder feigned hew.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1073 His habit carries peace, his brow defiance.

1704 Dict. Rusticum at Foal The same Shape he carries at a Month, he will carry at six Years old.

1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle xv. 236 Both carried grave faces.

1975 S. J. Fleming Authenticity in Art ii. 56 The undersketching may well carry several quite personal features of an artist's style.

2012 Chalk July 85/1 BUM comes up with stylish yet functional bags that carry the brand's style philosophy: the Modern Goth Look with a touch of Glam Rock.

(b) transitive. To exhibit or display (a characteristic, attribute, quality, etc., which may be perceived by the intellect or understanding).

ΚΠ

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 228 Rude and vnciuill speaches carry a marueilous great indecencie.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 76 Make your descant carrie some forme of relation to the plaine song.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 45 In some Vegetables we see something that carries a kind of analogy to Sense; they contract their leaves against the cold [etc.].

1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 576 The liability..may at first sight carry the air of hardship.

1968 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 7 Dec. 1107/1 Spätlese is an interesting word carrying the aura of the sweet, late, vine-ripened fruit.

2014 Wire May 77/4 It's provocatively ambiguous whether this air of failure carries a sense of pathos, or whether the music is just unsuccessful.

†b. transitive. To have or maintain (affection, respect, fondness, etc.) with regard to a person or thing. With to, unto, or towards. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > emotional attitude > hold, entertain, or cherish (a feeling) [verb (transitive)]

haveOE

takec1175

feelc1225

makec1225

hoard1340

cherishc1385

harbour1393

nourisha1522

nurse1567

lodge1583

carry1586

1586 Queen Elizabeth I Let. 10 Feb. in State Papers Foreign Elizabeth I (P.R.O. SP 84/6) f. 241 There is not that rewerente respect Carried towardes vs by our subiectes as in dutie appertaineth.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence v. 147 The naturall affection they caried vnto the countreymen.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 112. ⁋2 To carry an universal Benevolence towards every Thing that has Life.

a1718 W. Penn Wks. (1726) I. 538 The Over-fondness some carry to their Opinion.

c. transitive. To have (authority, power, an obligation, etc.) as an inherent or essential characteristic; to involve (something) implicitly.See also to carry weight at weight n.¹ 18c, to carry conviction at conviction n. 6b.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [verb (intransitive)]

to give (the) law (to)a1225

reignc1325

to rule the roastc1500

to bear (the) rooma1529

to have, bear, carry, strike the stroke1531

to bear (a or the) sway1549

to bear a (also the) rout1550

(to have) swing and sway1552

to rule the rout1570

master1656

carry1662

to lay down the law1762

to rule the roost1769

to carry (also hold) (big) guns1867

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. 207 All these [Laws] we say are such as do not carry an immutable obligation along with them.

1717 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 39 They Desired Leave to Withdraw, least their presence, if such bill should be Past without further amendments, might be understood to Carry their assent along with it.

1729 Bp. J. Butler Serm. iii, in Wks. (1874) II. 33 Conscience..carries its own authority with it.

1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism iv. 168 The determination of [these questions] carries..the question of ecclesiastical polity.

1891 Speaker 2 May 528/1 Universal suffrage brought into France in 1789 its logical sequent; the right of the voter carried with it the duty of the defender.

1943 M. Samuel tr. S. Asch Apostle ii. xviii. 415 The lessons taught in the stoa..carried with them no moral obligation for the individual.

2015 P. S. Ripp Empowered Schools, Empowered Students 63 Change doesn't have to be dramatic,..it can be easy, it can be minor, and yet it can still carry great power.

45. transitive. To entail or involve (a particular consequence, risk, etc.). Of a crime or act of wrongdoing: spec. to be punishable by (a particular penalty).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > bring about as a consequence or entail

makeOE

haveOE

drawa1400

to draw inc1405

to leave behind1424

goc1449

to draw on1572

train1579

carry1581

beara1616

to lead toa1770

evolve1816

entail1829

mean1841

issue1842

subinduce1855

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > incorporate or include [verb (transitive)] > implicitly

carry1581

implicate1602

to wind upa1616

enwrap1642

enfold1646

involve1646

1581 T. Wilcox Vnfouldyng Sundry Vntruths & Absurde Propositions xviii. 133 Forasmuch as this speech carrieth with it some dangerous consequences, it shall bee good for vs, to looke somewhat into it.

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. 91 Your Crime will carry its own punishment.

1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. ix. 342 Some vigorous effort, though it carried never so much danger, ought to be made.

1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith ii. 66 A positive judgment carrying immense consequences.

1920 Independent (U.S.) 17 Jan. 116/3 A wrong deed carries with it an automatic penalty.

1986 J. Batten Judges 24 A conviction on second-degree murder, a lesser offence but one that still carried a long jail sentence.

2002 Independent 13 Dec. 10/4 The operation..carried huge risks for the men who were to head for enemy territory.

46. transitive. Of a word, term, text, etc.: to have or convey (a meaning, sense, connotation, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > mean, signify, express [verb (transitive)]

tokenc888

meaneOE

sayOE

bequeathc1175

signifya1382

beara1400

bemeana1400

soundc1400

designc1429

applyc1450

betoken1502

express1526

conveya1568

intend1572

carry1584

denotate1597

pronounce1610

to set out1628

implya1640

speak1645

denote1668

designate1741

describe1808

enunciate1859

1584 E. Paget tr. J. Calvin Comm. Gospel after John iv. 81 in Harmonie vpon Three Euangelists The wordes carry another meaning.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiv. 207 The constant Signification of words; which..dependeth not..on vulgar use, but on the sense they carry in the Scripture.

1806 Sydney Gaz. 2 Nov. Whereas the term Currency, made use of in this Colony, seems not to have carried its proper Signification in the Small Notes generally circulated; It is hereby declared, that its meaning is only applicable to Money, and not Barter in Goods.

1881 E. B. Tylor Anthropol. vi. 162 The root, which carries the sense..is followed by suffixes strung on to modify it.

1970 R. W. Fasold & R. W. Shuy Teaching Standard Eng. in Inner City p. xi The term dialect seems to carry such a heavy pejorative connotation these days.

2001 B. K. Das tr. P. Ray Primal Land lxxxi. 231 Somra was unable to decide if this was praise or irony. Here, every word seemed to carry a double meaning.

47. transitive. To have or bear (a name or title). In later use also: to have or be entitled to display (a particular logo, label, brand, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > have or bear (name)

beara1225

weara1586

carry1601

undergo1605

sustain1700

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvii. vii. 616 Rubies of India..which carrie the name also of Carchedonij.

1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. ii. 67 Those who complied [to the Interim of Charles V] were for the most part Lutherans, and carried the Name of Adiaphorists.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xl. 165 To be..God-blessed..by one who carried ‘Sir’ before his name..was something for a porter.

1896 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 16 Dec. 3/2 The Canadian whiskies..carry the label of the manufacturer, who is thus able to insure that they are of the quality he desires.

1986 Fortune 4 Aug. 130 The new products have done so well..partly because they carry familiar brand names.

2000 Oldie Dec. 36/2 Before my father succeeded he carried the courtesy title of Lord Hartington.

48. transitive.To have (a price or value). Also of an investment, loan, etc.: to have (interest, or a particular condition) stipulated in the terms.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > extract gas or liquid

exhaust1540

draina1552

to draw off1594

uncask1594

spring1597

carry1602

tap1602

milka1628

to carry off1677

evacuate1719

drafta1875

aspirate1880

bleed1889

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 14^v The Tynne so sold, hath vsually..carried price betweene twentie and thirtie pound the thousand.

1690 ‘A Gentleman of Ireland’ Present Settlement Vindicated 61 So Bankrupt as to issue Money that did not carry intrinsick value above the Twenty-fourth part of its Name.

1711 London Gaz. No. 4870/4 Notes carrying 6 per Cent. Interest.

1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 79 In countries where the generality of land..lets at, from twelve to fourteen shillings an acre, I have observed that these little farms carry twenty shillings..an acre.

1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking v. 104 Bills or notes on demand carry no grace.

1914 H. Halford Dict. Stock Market Terms (ed. 2) 79 Debentures and Preference Stocks carrying a fixed rate of interest.

2006 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 July 29/5 Real estate agents and auctioneers will soon have to prove why a property should carry a certain price under new laws.

Phrases

P1. to carry coals: see coal n. Phrases 4.

P2. as fast as one's legs can carry one and variants: as fast as one is able to run, walk, etc.; as quickly as one can; at top speed.

ΚΠ

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1633/1 He [sc. Latimer] ranne as fast as hys old bones would cary him.

1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 115 So I took a head, and ran into the country as fast as my feet could carry me.

1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. vii. 34 ‘Follow me as fast as your little pins can carry you,’ said the other.

1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song ii. 79 in Scots Quair (1995) You'd to speed quick as your legs could carry you to fire the frontward bushes when those behind raged out with their flames and smoke in your hair.

2001 K. Glowczewska tr. R. Kapuściński Shadow of Sun (2002) 70 Small children run away at the sight of me as fast as their legs can carry them, and hide in the corners.

P3. Phrases relating to success or victory.

a. to carry all before one and variants: to prevail over a person or group by overwhelming strength; to sweep away opposition, esp. by the force of one's own opinions or personality.Frequently in metaphorical or similative use, with allusion to the irresistible force of a flood, storm, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) > sweep away all obstacles to success

to carry all before one1587

1587 M. Renniger Treat. sig. E4 Looke into our owne bosomes, and there lurke the Ghostly and common enemies, euen grosse & greeuous sinnes which breake out, carry all before them, & ouerflow all.

1672 R. Wild Poetica Licentia in Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 35 Some men there be that carry all before 'em.

1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 324 The Whiggs are rampant, & thinke to carry all before them.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage viii. 169 The Irreconcilables carried everything their own way.

1955 Thought 5 Feb. 16/3 It was Mr Nehru..in one of his most exuberant moods, that was everywhere carrying everything before him.

1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xvi. 496 Take the worse thing that is said about you, accuse your accusers of the selfsame fault, be more beautiful and media-friendly than they, and you will carry all before you, like a storm.

b. to carry one's point and variants: to be successful in putting across one's opinion or message, esp. in the face of opposition from others; to bring someone round to one's own point of view.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win

win1297

obtain1441

to go away with it1489

triumph1508

to carry (also get, lose, win, etc.) the day1557

to bear it1602

carry1602

to carry away the bucklers1608

to carry one's point1654

to carry it off1828

to ring the bell1900

1654 G. Hutcheson Brief Expos. Prophecies (Micah i. 2) 66 Let the Lord be witnesse against you, and he will carry his point.

1689 W. Popple tr. J. Locke Let. conc. Toleration 45 The Magistrate..will have his Will, and carry his point.

1741 R. Cross in R. Webster Hist. Presbyterian Church Amer. (1857) 170 They effectually carry the point with the poor credulous people, who, in imitation of their example..judge their ministers to be graceless.

1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. iii. ii. 160 She ended..by carrying her own point, and having her own way.

1999 R. Dowis Lost Art of Great Speech (e-book ed.) Although many fine speeches contain humor, to entertain is rarely the purpose of a speech. Instead, the humor helps to carry a point or to win over an audience.

c. to carry a (great, etc.) stroke: see stroke n.¹ 3d.

d. to carry the day: see day n. 13.

P4. Phrases relating to maintaining discipline or control.

†a. to carry a strict (also severe, etc.) hand over (also upon, to): to be strict, severe, etc., with regard to (a person or thing). Obsolete (archaic in later use).

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > follow (a course of behaviour) [verb (transitive)] > behave towards

ateec1000

leadc1175

makec1175

farec1230

beleadc1275

dightc1275

beseec1300

servec1300

treatc1374

usea1382

proceeda1393

demean1393

to deal witha1400

treatc1400

to do to ——a1425

entreat?a1425

handc1440

ferea1450

entertain1490

ray1509

to do unto ——?1523

tract1548

deal1573

to carry a strict (also severe, etc.) hand over (also upon, to)c1591

play1597

to comport with1675

to behave towards or to1754

usen1814

c1591 J. Norden Progr. Pietie (1847) 22 We must carry a very short hand over our affections.

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) ii. 25 Ile carry an even hand to all the world.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. xxi. 121 To carrie a strict hand upon the Commissaries.

1723 S. Morland Specimen Lat. Dict. 12 To Carry a severe Hand over any one.

1738 S. Whatley tr. K. L. von Pöllnitz Mem. IV. 177 A House of Correction for loose young Fellows and Women, over whom the Police of Geneva carries a very strict Hand.

1864 G. C. Fullerton in Month July 21 In truth, good Mistress Sherwood, I carry a strict hand over them, never suffering their faults to go unchastised.

†b. to carry a wary (also watchful, etc.) eye on (also upon): to watch (a person) carefully; to be vigilant with regard to (a person); to be wary of. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch on [verb (transitive)]

biwitieOE

to look to ——c1330

watchc1330

to make or lay await onc1386

markc1400

to wait to ——c1440

to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye on (also upon)a1450

waken1535

to look unto ——1594

to carry a wary (also watchful, etc.) eye on (also upon)1596

to look after ——a1616

overwatch1618

snokea1652

to look up1855

surveil1960

1596 Z. Jones tr. M. Barleti Hist. G. Castriot vii. 272 He had enioyned some of his people with promises of good rewardes to carie a good eye vpon Debreas.

1642 F. Fairfax Let. 26 Jan. in Parl. Hist. Eng. (1753) XII. 160 I shall carry a vigilant Eye upon his Designs, and endeavour to prevent them.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 30 If any man..shall carry a wary eye on Paulus Venetus..and many other, I think his circumspection is laudable.

1728 W. Delaune Twelve Serm. vii. 162 Though I should have sufficient Reason to carry a watchful Eye upon myself in his Presence.

P5. to carry one's life in one's hands: to be exposed to potentially fatal risks in the course of one's everyday life, work, or duties. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1615 R. Rogers Comm. Bk. Judges li. 393 They carry their life in their hands, and are in danger of spending their blood in the cause of God.

1747 Friendly Let. Brit. Soldiery in Mem. concerning Present State Protestant Relig. in France 10 Do I carry my Life in my Hands, am I in Danger of Death every Moment, and shall I be so sottish and stupid as to rush upon everlasting Damnation?

1889 J. E. Muddock Stories Weird & Wonderful xx. 281 I wandered about those western wilds, and threw myself heart and soul into the adventurous existence peculiar to them...I literally carried my life in my hands.

1912 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 2/2 The Transatlantic ‘railway-man’, whatever his rank,..must at times carry his life in his hands.

2006 Africa News (Nexis) 9 Mar. The majority of them were barely children, carrying their lives in their hands, ready to submit to whatever fate brought their way.

P6. to drink more than one can carry and variants: to drink more alcohol than one can withstand without becoming inebriated.

ΚΠ

1615 H. Parrot Mastiue sig. I2^v Such Husbands as are worldly wise, Will spend no more then nature shall suffise. As not to drinke more then their braynes can carie, For feare their iudgements from their wits should varie.

1653 J. Howell German Diet sig. L Hereupon they use to characterize a Dutchman to be an Animal that can drink more then he can carry.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lxvii. 339 A sailor having drank more new rum than he could carry.

1867 Our Boys & Girls 21 Dec. 698/2 He was no longer in condition even to drink for both of us. He had already taken more than he could carry.

1947 ‘P. Wentworth’ Wicked Uncle (1996) xxx. 221 It's my opinion he'd had a good bit more to drink than he could carry.

2009 @BillyD81 12 July in twitter.com (accessed 26 Nov.) I drank more than I could carry last night.

P7. †to carry double: (of a horse) to carry two people.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (intransitive)] > carry pillion

to carry double1637

1637 J. Shirley Young Admirall v. sig. K2^v Pag. Get but a brave horse—Paz. That would carry double, and I might bring home the Princesse behind me to the Campe.

1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. 206 The next thing to be done was to get two horses for the ladies, for mine were not able to carry double any further.

1839 New Monthly Mag. June 260 Not a syllable is to be found in that warranty as to the capability of the horse Pickle carrying double.

1901 Munsey's Mag. Jan. 484/1 It ain't the first time the pelter's carried double.

2013 R. J. Gossett My Five Sons xxiii. 209 His horse was on the verge of collapse from carrying double at a fast gallop.

P8. to carry (a person) off his (also her) feet.

a. To cause (a person) be unduly influenced by something, esp. in a way which affects rational thought or behaviour; to cause (a person) to be overcome with passion, enthusiasm, or other strong emotion. Frequently in passive.Cf. to sweep (a person) off his feet at sweep v. 6c.

ΚΠ

1677 J. Brown Christ the Way xii. 221 A spirit of error is gone abroad, and many are carried off their feet therewith.

1800 in R. Burns Wks. 234 A Scottish lady..declared..that no man's conversation ever carried her so completely off her feet as that of Burns.

1889 C. Smith Repentance Paul Wentworth III. 145 He positively carried me off my feet for a few minutes that evening.

2007 Afr. News (Nexis) 4 Oct. Heroes are often carried off their feet by their acts of heroism.

b. To knock (a person) over; to cause (a person) to fall to the ground.

ΚΠ

1733 W. Mitchel Second Day's Journey Tinclarian Doctor 11 A great blast of Wind which carried me off my Feet, and threw me down the Brae.

1889 E. S. Ellis Life Kit Carson vi. 36 They set their traps in the wildest recesses of the Rocky Mountains where the whirling snow storms almost carried them off their feet.

2000 Vancouver (Brit. Columbia) Province (Nexis) 14 May (Sports section) a94 Barilko..launched a shot at Habs goalie Gerry McNeil. The momentum carried him off his feet.

P9. to carry (something) into effect (also execution, practice, etc.): to cause (something which has previously been considered, decided, etc.), to be put into action or operation.In quot. 1715 with indefinite article, in the form to carry into an execution.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (transitive)] > carry into effect (a command, promise, plan, etc.)

fillOE

fulfilc1300

performc1300

executec1405

to draw in(to) consequencec1420

forthfillc1420

persolve1548

to go through ——a1586

effecta1593

to fill up1600

complete1680

to carry (something) into effect (also execution, practice, etc.)1715

implement1806

to put into effect1936

1715 Upon Petition of W. Paterson (House of Commons) 5 As by the particular Proposals made for that purpose fully appears, tho' they were never..carried into an Execution.

1718 Sir J. Schaw, Appellant. Dame M. Schaw & Sir J. Houston, Respondents: Appellant's Case 3 This is..but a Covenant to settle, which in England would not be decreed to be carried into Execution in Favour of a Volunteer as the Respondent Dame Margaret is.

1819 in J. Milbank First Cent. Flight in Amer. (1943) v. 71 To carry into operation his principles for navigating air ships.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 123 He did not tarry long in carrying his purpose into effect.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. ii. v. 107 In the Church the beautiful ideal of human brotherhood was carried into practice.

1994 Esprit de Corps (Ottawa) Aug. 30/2 For my part I like to see a General that can first form a plan and then has the steadiness to carry his plan into execution.

P10. to carry the war into the enemy's camp and variants: to attack a person or thing, rather than acting defensively; to go on the offensive against a person, organization, etc. Similarly to carry the war into Africa (chiefly U.S.).In quot. 1791 in metaphorical use.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)]

to lay ona1225

assailc1325

sailc1330

assemblea1375

to fall inc1384

to fall ona1387

givec1430

brunt1440

to set (all) on sevenc1440

to ding on1487

to fall down1534

offend1540

to go on1553

to give on?1611

to let fly1611

strikea1616

insult1638

to set on1670

aggress1708

to carry the war into the enemy's camp1791

hop over1929

1791 Gen. Evening Post 7 May Ministers..rightly thinking that it was a good military manœuvre, when pressed themselves, to carry the war into the enemy's country, seized on what he had said..and..strove to make it a topic of popular libel.

1827 Niles' Weekly Reg. 7 Apr. 97/2 The readers of the ‘Register’ will, I hope, excuse this repulsion of a gross assault. I feel able to defend myself, and to carry the war into an enemy's camp too, if I please.

1828 Reg. Deb. Congr. 4 i. 1315 I shall not..act in mere self-defence. I shall carry the war into Africa.

1835 R. J. Mackintosh Mem. Life Sir J. Mackinstosh I. 81 Nor was this production altogether defensive; the war was now and then carried into the enemy's quarters.

1927 L. P. Hartley in C. Asquith Black Cap 47 ‘I don't think Rollo is slow,’ remarked Jimmy, hoping to carry the war into her country.

1938 H. McCloy Dance of Death xx. 237 Her smile annoyed Basil. He carried the war into Africa. ‘Are you aware that M. Pasquale takes morphine?’

2004 A. Lustig in A. Lustig et al. Darwinian Heresies iv. 69 They [sc. evolutionary biologists] also carry the war into the enemy's camp, aiming not only to safeguard their own work but also to vitiate the very underpinnings of religion.

P11. Cricket. to carry one's bat: (of an opening batter) to remain not out at the end of the team’s completed innings. Sometimes also used more generally of batters who are not out at the end of an innings.See also to carry out one's bat at to carry out 1c at Phrasal verbs, to carry one's bat through at to carry through 3 at Phrasal verbs, and to take out one's bat at take v. Phrasal verbs 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > be not out

to bring out one's bat1833

to carry one's bat1833

to carry out one's bat1834

to take out one's bat1838

to carry one's bat through1839

1833 New Sporting Mag. Sept. 325 Take care who's in, or through the game Your bat you will not carry.

1882 Cliftonian June 228 The former carried his bat for a lucky 14.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 18 May 7/1 Grace has carried his bat twenty-two times when scoring centuries.

2019 Manawatu (N.Z.) Standard (Nexis) 19 Nov. 5 Treder opened the innings with Courtney Infield, who scored 25, and carried her bat, facing 53 balls.

P12. Chiefly Caribbean and Nigerian English.

a. to carry me (also you, it, etc.) (and) go: to take (a person or thing) somewhere; to take (someone or something) away.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > carry

carryc1400

fure1487

port1566

porter1609

tote1677

hug1788

to carry me (also you, it, etc.) (and) go1837

pack1846

hump1853

1837 Statem. Facts submitted to Right Honourable Ld. Glenelg 19 They come call me, but me no want to come, they force me, massa—say it must be done, and done at once, and say so four times, and massa—come back and shove me, and carry me go.

1935 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 22 June 26/1 De darg dat carry bone come, wi' carry bone go... ‘The dog that fetches will carry’.

2011 @9ja_Qtee 24 July in twitter.com (accessed 13 Jan. 2021) Sleep can now carry me and go.

b. to carry me (also you, it, etc.) (and) come: to bring (a person or thing) somewhere; to fetch (someone or something).

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the world > movement > transference > bringing > bring [verb (transitive)] > fetch > specifically a person or animal

fetOE

fetchc1000

routc1776

to carry me (also you, it, etc.) (and) come1935

1935 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 22 June 26/1 De darg dat carry bone come, wi' carry bone go... ‘The dog that fetches will carry’.

1996 C. M. Booker & A. C. Winkler Bob Marley (2003) xvi. 171 Mamma, it look like me can't make you do my business, you know. How could you make de people carry you come here so?

2018 @Thundazz2 6 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 13 Jan. 2021) If i was American i don't know wat will carry me and come to this country [sc. Nigeria].

Phrasal verbs

With adverbs in specialized senses. to carry about

†1. intransitive. To go or travel around. Obsolete. [Compare note at sense 23.]

ΚΠ

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. l. 29 As Ancres and Hermytes þat holdeþ hem in heore Celles, Coueyte not in Cuntre to carien [B text c1400 Laud 581 kairen] a-boute.

a. transitive. To take or transport (a person or thing) from one place to another; to have (something) on one's person when going about one's work, duties, etc.; to take with one.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)]

remuea1325

movea1382

translatea1382

transfer1382

transfigurec1384

removea1387

to turn overa1425

transume1483

to carry about1496

traduce1546

transplant1555

transact1621

transmigrate1635

hand1642

to make over1713

recover1719

to carry over1850

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] > convey by carrying (of person) > as part of one's equipment

to carry about1496

tote1823

pack1846

1496 tr. Medytacions St. Bernarde sig. Av^v This corruptyble & rotlewe body that I cary abowte.

1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. 1178 To carry about with them an aultar stone whereby they might haue a Priest to say them Masse, or other diuine seruice, where they would.

1645 J. Bastwick 2nd Pt. Independency not God's Ordinance 58 Ye shall frequently see them amongst Lords and Ladies..carried about in Coaches with four Horses, in great state; whereas a Wheele-barrow..were a great deale fitter for them.

1786 R. Jones Two Funeral Serm. 29 Is he [sc. man] sent hither to carry about with him a pained body, or a vexed heart?

1872 W. Besant & J. Rice Ready-money Mortiboy v He carried about with him a largish sum in valuables and money.

1906 W. Cunningham Should our Railways be Nationalised? (ed. 4) 52 The rate book for the whole of Germany is less than 80 pages, and a trader carries it about in his pocket.

2019 National (Scotl.) (Nexis) 31 Dec. To the younger members of my family the iPad is a kind of extra limb. They carry it about with them day and night.

†b. transitive. To pass on or circulate (news, a rumour, a report, etc.). Obsolete.

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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (transitive)]

sowc888

blowc1275

dispeple1297

to do abroadc1300

fame1303

publyc1350

defamea1382

publisha1382

open?1387

proclaima1393

slandera1400

spreada1400

abroachc1400

throwc1400

to give outa1425

promote?a1425

noisec1425

publicc1430

noisec1440

divulgea1464

to put outc1475

skail1487

to come out witha1500

bruit1525

bruita1529

to bear out1530

divulgate1530

promulgate1530

propale?1530

ventilate1530

provulgate1535

sparple1536

sparse1536

promulge1539

disperse1548

publicate1548

forthtell1549

hurly-burly?1550

propagate1554

to set abroada1555

utter1561

to set forth1567

blaze1570

evulgate1570

scatter1576

rear?1577

to carry about1585

pervulgate1586

celebrate?1596

propalate1598

vent1602

evulge1611

to give forth1611

impublic1628

ventilate1637

disseminate1643

expose1644

emit1650

to put about1664

to send abroad1681

to get abroad1688

to take out1697

advertise1710

forward1713

to set abouta1715

circulate1780

broadcast1829

vent1832

vulgate1851

debit1879

float1883

1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles (xv. 2) 351 They must be endewed with inuincible courage to despise al false reports which are caried about concerning them.

1687 J. Gother Catholic Representer ix. 60/1 Some other Reports, that have been warmly carried about this last Month by Men of all Coats.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. 233 Tho' a visible apparition from Hell it self openly and avowedly carried the report about, yet it shall go about.

1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xxii. 172 Lacqueys have ears as well as their masters, and they carry about all sorts of stories.

1913 F. N. Greene Right of Strongest xx. 257 The news was carried about by a young Thaggin on horseback that grandma was dead.

3. transitive (chiefly in passive). To cause (a person or thing) to be driven or propelled in one direction and then another; to move or drive around.Frequently with reference or allusion to Hebrews 13:9 and Ephesians 4:14 (see quots. 1534 and 1539).

ΚΠ

1534 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. xiii. B Be not caryed aboute with divers and straunge learnynge.

1539 Bible (Great) Eph. iv. 14 Caryed aboute with euery wynde of doctrine.

1796 Mod. Gulliver's Trav. 9 Thou mayest be carried about like a float on a fishing-line, the whirligig of every gurglet in the stream.

1890 Rust in Wheat: Minutes Conf. Delegates Victoria, S. Austral., New South Wales, & Queensland 41 Some [spores or germs], being carried about by the breeze, lodge in the soil or on other plants.

1909 J. Miller 20th Cent. Hist. Erie County, Pennsylvania I. xxii. 214 The sand was carried about by the winds forming dunes.

2010 R. Rorty Ethics for Today (2011) 10 What the pope disparagingly calls the relativists' habit of being carried about by every wind of doctrine is viewed by philosophers like myself as openness to new possibilities.

4. transitive. To cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to set in motion. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > cause to move [verb (transitive)]

stira1023

icchec1175

wawc1290

movea1382

remble1579

rouse1582

agitate1592

act1597

to put in (also into, to) motion1597

activate1624

actuate1641

animate1646

ferment1667

to feague away1671

to carry about1680

excite1694

jee1722

bestir1813

emotion1831

to set on1855

send1864

motion1929

1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 189 Wheels Turn'd with Wind, Water, or Horses, to carry the Work about.

1777 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 57 285 Conceive now a spherical surface.., having the same center and radius as the equator DE, to be carried about with the revolving spheroid.

1804 Brit. Critic Mar. 338 With the mean velocity..of the first rotation, every point in the equator would be carried about at the rate of 5 yards only in 1 hour.

1991 Arabic Sci. & Philos. 1 289 There is a third sphere..concentric with the other two. It is attached to the second just above A, so that it is carried about by the rotation of the second.

to carry along

1. transitive. To take or transport (a person or thing) from one place to another; to conduct, convey; to take with one as one travels or goes about one's work, duties, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)]

carry1570

to carry along1582

take1738

1582 J. Prime Short Treat. Sacraments sig. Cv Ancient men must not forget who was hee that tooke them from their cradle, and caried them along in his armes to their gray heares.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 17 They [sc. the Magi] were miraculously provected; and as it were carried along in the ayr.

1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 1 June 141/2 A stone bridge carrying along the road from Peebles to Selkirk.

1947 Life 17 Nov. 151/1 A steady stream of air is kept flowing into these hoods, thereby preventing air currents from escaping into the rest of the lab and carrying germs along.

2007 M. Cezair-Thompson Pirate's Daughter (2008) xxxi. 460 A hustler had approached them..begging for money. They told him they hadn't carried along any money, which was true.

2. transitive. Frequently in passive. To have a strong influence on the thoughts or feelings of (a person or group); to engage and motivate (a person or group), esp. by the force of one's personality, opinions, enthusiasm, etc.

ΚΠ

1630 T. Taylor Progresse of Saints 83 Consider, first, what a plague it is for great men to be carried along by flatterers, who rivet them in their wickednesse by applauding them.

1838 R. I. Wilberforce & S. Wilberforce Life W. Wilberforce IV. xxxi. 329 ‘If there is any one,’ said Mr. Canning, ‘who..knows exactly what will carry the House along with him, it certainly is my honourable friend the member for Bramber.’

1924 R. Spears in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1924 (1925) 201 This Alice Haven was quite a stepper at that. She said my music just carried her right along.

1999 Waitrose Food Illustr. July 32/3 A delight in all things gastonomic leaps off every page... You may not agree with Durack all the time, but it is impossible not to be carried along by his enthusiasm.

to carry away

a. transitive. To take (a person or thing) elsewhere; to remove, sometimes forcibly or violently.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away

ateec885

withbreidec890

animOE

overbearOE

to do awayOE

flitc1175

reavec1175

takec1175

to have away?a1300

to draw awayc1300

weve13..

to wend awaya1325

withdrawa1325

remuec1325

to carry away1363

to take away1372

waive1377

to long awaya1382

oftakec1390

to draw offa1398

to do froa1400

forflitc1420

amove?a1425

to carry out?a1425

surtrayc1440

surtretec1440

twistc1440

abstract1449

ostea1450

remove1459

ablatea1475

araisea1475

redd1479

dismove1480

diminish?1504

convey1530

alienate1534

retire1536

dimove1540

reversec1540

subtractc1540

submove1542

sublate1548

pare1549

to pull in1549

exempt1553

to shift off1567

retract?1570

renversec1586

aufer1587

to lay offa1593

rear1596

retrench1596

unhearse1596

exemea1600

remote1600

to set off1600

subduct1614

rob1627

extraneize1653

to bring off1656

to pull back1656

draft1742

extract1804

reef1901

1363 in Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey 64 (MED) Tenantz take theyr wod called estouers & delfe theyr turves in ye mosse & turbarye in Gayrstang & theyme carye & ber away.

1462 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) 95 (MED) To have al the said wod to the said Richard..with free entre..to fele, pele, occupie, and carie away wod.

1576 R. Curteys Two Serm. sig. Avj The rich men of this world shall..carry away with them nothing but a shrowding sheet.

1661 T. Allin Jrnl. 3 Aug. (1939) (modernized text) I. 44 It fired and carried away most of the flesh of the inside of his arm.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1652 (1955) III. 61 Flinging it into a rapid streame, which not onely carried the Land &c. away, but filled up the moate.

1784 G. A. Hall in G. Washington Papers (1953) VIII. 199 Upwards of 20,000 Negroes were carried away by the British or died of the Small pox, Camp Fevers &ca.

1871 F. Bolton tr. F. Delitzsch Biblical Comm. Psalms II. lxxix. 380 Those who are carried away captive and incarcerated.

1963 C. Cookson Heritage of Folly (1998) vii. 279 The fight was not to swim but to resist being carried away on the outgoing tide.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 July a9/2 Residents often drive atop a hill to watch the twice-weekly ships that carry away what is left of some 500,000 tons of industrial waste that was dumped here.

b. transitive. Nautical. To break off and remove (a part of a vessel) by force. Also: to lose (a part of a vessel) as a result of breakage. Occasionally intransitive: to be broken and removed by force.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > loss > be lost [verb (intransitive)]

adrillc1350

slip1390

to carry away1604

to go (etc.) down the drain1930

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > forcibly tear off or away

tear1297

aracec1315

arachec1315

ravisha1382

pullc1390

to draw offa1398

roota1398

ripa1400

to pull awayc1410

to rip upc1425

brit1578

arrest1593

to carry away1604

avulsea1765

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > become detached [verb (intransitive)] > break off

to carry away1604

snap1796

to break away1860

1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 149 The viceadmirall..with his shippe called the Moone, ranne withall his force betwixt the great mast and the poupe of Saint Phillip so as he..carried away with him the hinder part of the galley, and the helme.

1697 London Gaz. No. 3262/3 It blowing fresh, and they bringing their Ship in the Wind, carried away their Foretop-mast.

1720 J. Burchett Compl. Hist. Trans. at Sea v. xxii. 723 The best Bower Anchor carried away with a Shot.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xv. 41 Her jib-boom ran between our..masts, carrying away some of our rigging.

1881 Daily News 9 June 5/4 Something may carry away on board the leading boat.

1973 P. O'Brian HMS Surprise (1996) ix. 324 Rattray out on the perilous bowsprit already with two of his mates, gammoning the jibboom before it carried away.

2016 H. Noel-Smith & L. M. Campbell Hornblower's Hist. Shipmates ii. 30 Anson continued to perform poorly, repeatedly carrying away her yards and springing her masts.

2. transitive. To influence or affect (a person, the mind) strongly, esp. so as to cause foolish, irrational, or uncharacteristic behaviour. Frequently (now chiefly) in passive, often with get in to get carried away.In figurative context in quot. ?1529, with allusion to the irresistible force of a storm.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)]

rineOE

afaite?c1225

stir?c1225

movea1325

amovec1380

inspire1390

commove1393

informa1398

toucha1400

embracec1430

rore1481

alter1529

to carry away?1529

raise1533

removea1540

heavec1540

affect?1548

carry1570

inmove1583

infecta1586

worka1616

unthaw1699

emove1835

emotionize1855

emotion1875

the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > cause nervous excitement or agitate [verb (transitive)]

to carry away?1529

agitate1591

fermentate1599

tumultuate1616

alarm1620

overwork1645

uncalm1650

flutter1664

pother1692

to set afloata1713

fluctuate1788

fuss1816

tumult1819

to break up1825

rile1857

to steam up1860

to shake up1884

?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. v. sig. d.iv^v Whiche thynge she shall easly do, if she abyde in her owne power, nor suffer her selfe to be caried away with her owne fantasies, as it were with stormes of wether.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. Pref. sig. **iv^v Their reason is caried away and ouermaistered by the course of the world.

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 72 I did not thinke to have gone so farre; it is the subject that hath carried me away.

1709 R. Steele Tatler III. No. 151. 157 Woman-kind..are carried away with every Thing that is showy.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xvii. 275 His tribe, he said, had been carried away by the general enthusiasm for liberty, and he could not keep them back.

1956 N. Coward Diary 23 Dec. (2000) 340 She talks wisely and informatively up to the point where she gets carried away.

2001 Times 14 Sept. (Terror in Amer. Suppl.) 20/2 A fortnight ago we were all carried away by sporting joy and a certain 5–1 scoreline.

†3.

a. transitive. To prevail in (a matter which is disputed); to win (a victory). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > win (any contest or prize) > win (a prize, etc.)

to bear awayc1325

getc1330

winc1330

to go away with1489

to carry away1565

carry1570

to bear off?1615

to carry off1680

to take out1976

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > by effort or competition

winc1330

gain1548

to carry away1565

to run away with1822

1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare v. 327 M. Hardinge thinketh he may leade alonge his simple Reader, and easily carrie away the mater vnder the bare Titles, and Names of the Learned Fathers.

1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. C4 His wordes..were [not] of sufficient credite to carry away such a matter.

1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. x. 52 Where, after they have been repulsed or routed, they have rallyed, and carried away many glorious victories.

1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 3rd Pt. iv. 198 Promising, that if he did not clearly carry away the Victory, he would submit himself to the Laws.

b. transitive. to carry away the game: to achieve victory or success in a particular endeavour. Also: to do well out of something; to profit from something. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. 404 The poore countrey bare the name, but others carryed away the game.

1603 tr. J. Hotman Ambassador sig. F5 He must..remember, that oftentimes the countenance carrieth away the game.

1650 A. Ascham Answer to Vindic. Dr. Hammond 2 The proverb is, He must have a good cause as well as a good tongue, that will overcome, else he will not easily carry away the game.

1676 Warning for House-keepers 5 When that we have bit the bloe We carry away the game.

c. transitive. to carry it away: to achieve victory or success in a particular endeavour; to have or gain the advantage. Obsolete.Cf. main sense 24b.

ΚΠ

1587 W. Rankins Mirrour of Monsters f. 23 Euery man by theyr continuall practise doth decerne theyr visard to bee rather immodest impudency, yet so currantly can they carry it away, that he with his Net as expert as themselues, is counted but a..playne Innocent.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xiii. vi. 187 This opinion caried it away.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 52 Doe not thinke that either thy secrecy, or impudence can carrie it away without notice.

4. transitive. To cause (a person) to die; to kill (a person).Cf. to carry off 3 at Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > cause of death > cause death [verb (transitive)]

to be the death ofOE

slayc1000

reavec1230

dissolvec1374

extinguish1540

expiate1594

to carry away1603

to carry off1679

devive1869

to settle the number of a person's mess1881

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxvii. 442 A popular sickenesse..carried away an infinite number of persons.

1893 Ann. Gynecol. & Pediatry Dec. 148/1 Dr. Emil Blanc died Sunday morning, carried away at the age of 35 years by super-acute septicæmia.

1993 P. W. Ewald Evol. Infectious Dis. (e-book ed.) Over 20 million were carried away by the influenza virus in little more than a year.

2010 G. E. Smoak in G. M. Bakken World Amer. West (2011) ii. 67 The most famous of all virgin-soil epidemics, the ‘Black Death’ (most likely bubonic plague), carried away approximately one-third of the European population between 1347 and 1352.

to carry back

1. transitive. To cause (a person) to remember or think of something; to cause (a person) to return to a state, situation, etc., which existed in the past. With a phrase introduced by to indicating the thing remembered, past state, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > [verb (transitive)] > carry or cast back into the past

reducea1620

antedate1633

to carry back1644

retroject1850

1644 S. Bolton Tossed Ship To Rdr. sig. A8 Our troubles lead me by the hand, to these Texts, and these Texts did carry me back to our Times.

1764 J. Otis Rights Brit. Colonies 51 Would these gentlemen carry us back to the state of the Goths and Vandals, and revive all the military tenures and bondage which our fore-fathers could not bear?

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §7. 95 The legend..carries us back to the times of our own Ælfred.

1932 E. A. Bentt Metaphysical Found. Mod. Physical Sci. (ed. 2) viii. 305 The second of these alternatives carries us back to pre-scientific logic.

2005 S. Rushdie Shalimar the Clown 31 The ambassador was carried back to his Strasbourgeois childhood years in a Belle Époque mansion.

2. transitive. Accounting. To transfer (a loss, unused credit, etc.) to a previous tax period in order to reduce the amount of tax to be paid.Cf. to carry forward at Phrasal verbs, to carry over 1 at Phrasal verbs, to carry up 5 at Phrasal verbs.

ΚΠ

1934 Accounting Rev. 9 226/2 A company which applied its profit in writing off goodwill was allowed to carry back to profit and loss an amount written off which proved to be in excess of the proper requirements.

1943 Effects Taxes upon Corporate Policy (National Industrial Conference Board) iii. 26/2 Provisions..for carrying losses (and excess-profits credits) two years back and two years forward will ameliorate the matter but not correct it.

2002 Which? Tax Saving Guide 56/3 If you want to carry back a payment to 2001–2002, you must pay it and make the option by 31 January 2003.

to carry forth

†1. intransitive To travel onward; to go forth; to proceed. Obsolete. [Compare note at sense 23.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)]

wadeOE

agoOE

forthganga1000

forthgoOE

syeOE

kenc1275

to-stepc1275

vaunce1303

forthnima1325

passc1330

throc1330

forthpass1382

to pass forthc1384

to carry forthc1390

proceedc1392

to go alongc1400

to be forthwardc1430

get) groundc1436

to set onc1450

avauntc1460

pretend1481

to make way1490

advance?1507

to get forward1523

promove1570

to rid ground (also space)1572

to rid (the) way1581

progressa1586

to gather grounda1593

to make forth1594

to make on1597

to work up1603

perge1607

to work one's (also its) way1609

to pass on1611

to gain ground1625

to make its way1645

vadea1660

propagate1700

to gain one's way1777

further1789

to pull up1829

on1840

to make (up) ground1921

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iv. l. 22 Þenne Concience on his Capul Carieþ forþ Faste.

2. transitive. To take (a person or thing) out and away from a particular point. Sometimes: spec. to take (a dead person) for burial, etc.; cf. main sense 1b and to carry out 1b at Phrasal verbs. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1421 in Archæol. Jrnl. (1850) 7 57 Ye saides Th' Rob't and Joh' schall' haue..free entree and issue to care frothe [read forthe]..ye forsaide lymstane and sande.

1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) at Libitina They also who were employed to carry forth and bury Corps, were called Libitinarians.

1865 J. Doolittle Social Life Chinese (1867) I. xiii. 337 The condemned man is carried forth to the execution ground in a kind of cage or box.

1931 J. Gavorse Suetonius' Lives Twelve Caesars ii. 115 It was that very number of soldiers of the pretorian guard that carried him forth to lie in state.

2005 C. Bonanos Gods, Heroes, & Philosophers (e-book ed.) The olive branch carried forth as a peace offering survives, metaphorically, to the present day.

to carry forward

1. transitive. To cause (something) to progress towards a future state or condition; to maintain or keep up (something); to develop (something) beyond a stage already attained.Cf. to carry on 1 at Phrasal verbs, to carry on 3 at Phrasal verbs.

ΚΠ

1653 Faithfull Scout No. 106. 837 So they may..be up and doing every one in their place, in carrying forward the great Work of the most High.

1833 Atkinson's Casket June 259 Nature in carrying forward her ceaseless changes..never produces forms which exhibit mathematical lines and angles.

1920 Amer. Artisan 23 Oct. 37/1 The ability of our Nation to carry forward its traditions of order, progress, and justice.

2001 FourFourTwo Sept. 49/2 We aim to donate £50,000, which goes towards funding three research fellows to carry forward the hospital's pioneering work.

2. transitive. Bookkeeping and Accounting. To transfer (an item) from one account, ledger, etc., to the next; to transfer (a loss, unused credit, etc.) to a future tax period in order to reduce the amount of tax to be paid.Cf. to carry back 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry over 1 at Phrasal verbs, to carry up 5 at Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures

control1422

avouch1539

allocate1551

respond1588

score1592

carry1652

post1707

to carry forward1721

off-reckon1721

O. Ni.a1726

to carry over1745

rule1845

to write down1876

to close off188.

qualify1884

accrue1915

net1947

gross1954

strip1980

1721 Particular & Inventory W. Morley (South-Sea Company) 15 Carry forward 16121l. 17s. 10d.

1839 Reply Lockhart's Pamph. 97 Carry forward £41.478 15s. 5d.

1984 M. P. Devereux & C. P. Mayer Corporation Tax i. 10 Surplus deductions which could not be claimed against profits had to be carried forward and set against future profits.

2012 J. W. Mirza Assyrian Dream 389 My instructions were to add each page, carry forward the total to the top of the next page, and so on, until all the pages were done.

to carry in

transitive. To take or transport (a person or thing) into or inside a place; spec. to bring (corn or another crop) from the field to be stored after harvesting.

ΚΠ

1417 in Norfolk Archaeol. (1904) 15 132 (MED) Item, yo carte to Cossey, carying in corne tyll evene.

1625 S. Nettles Answer Selden's Hist. Tithes 147 The fruit of the field, and of the vineyard is called tebuah, because they bring it into the houses, being deriued from a word that signifies to bring or carry in.

1707 A. Cant Serm. 30 Jan. 16 His Sacred Majesty..was carried in before that sanguinary Assembly of King-killers.

1885 T. Greer Mod. Dædalus xvii. 224 As fast as one patient was borne away clean and comfortable,..another was carried in on a stretcher.

1939 Amer. Anthropologist 41 540 If..a woman dies during the growing season, the husband goes to her matrilineal kinsmen and asks to be given the services of one or more of their ‘sisters’ to..carry in the harvest.

2005 Computer Weekly 19 July 33/1 Biometric time and attendance systems are more secure than ID card systems because cards can be swapped, or carried in by colleagues and swiped through the system.

to carry off

a. transitive. To take or transport (a person or thing) away from a place; to take elsewhere.

ΚΠ

1601 Ld. Mountjoy Let. to Cecil 13 Nov. in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. ii. ii. 156 We..made them leaue some of their dead bodies behind them, although we saw them carry many off with them.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 41. ⁋6 Honeycomb..carried off his Handkerchief full of Brushes.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. vii. 182 He seems to have as swift a pair of heels to assist in carrying him off, as any Lazaro in Naples need desire.

1890 Cent. Mag. Feb. 484/1 Two boys struggling at the great sculls in one of the small boats were called by us..and carried us off to look at the outgoing steamer.

1964 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 14 Sept. 1/5 Eyewitnesses said they saw an East German guard being carried off on a stretcher.

2010 H. Davis Clearing 137 Grandpa collected the dishes. ‘Henry, you behave out here,’ he said, carrying the tray off to the kitchen.

b. transitive. To remove (excess or unwanted water, fumes, etc.) from a place.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > extract gas or liquid

exhaust1540

draina1552

to draw off1594

uncask1594

spring1597

carry1602

tap1602

milka1628

to carry off1677

evacuate1719

drafta1875

aspirate1880

bleed1889

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 185 Our Mills and Locks have most of them back streams and lashers to carry off the water when it is too plentiful.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 253 Mere diluting dissolves and carries off Salts.

1758 R. Dossie Elaboratory laid open i. 48 The fumes may be carried off, by means of the tubulated receiver.

1823 M. Eaton Cook & Housekeeper's Dict. 170/1 A cheap and simple apparatus, for carrying off the waste water and other offensive matter from sinks and drains.

1989 P. Horowitz & W. Hill Art of Electronics (ed. 2) vi. 311/2 A finned metal plate designed to carry off heat.

1999 Dogs in Canada July 108/3 A flat stone..for the fire, with a pot or kettle hanging over it and above this an opening in the tent to carry off some of the smoke.

c. transitive. To take (a person or thing) away by force, deception, etc.; to abduct (a person).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)]

pick?c1300

takec1300

fetch1377

bribec1405

usurpc1412

rapc1415

to rap and rendc1415

embezzle1495

lifta1529

pilfer1532

suffurate1542

convey?1545

mill1567

prig1567

strike1567

lag1573

shave1585

knave1601

twitch1607

cly1610

asport1621

pinch1632

snapa1639

nap1665

panyar1681

to carry off1684

to pick up1687

thievea1695

to gipsy away1696

bone1699

make1699

win1699

magg1762

snatch1766

to make off with1768

snavel1795

feck1809

shake1811

nail1819

geach1821

pull1821

to run off1821

smug1825

nick1826

abduct1831

swag1846

nobble1855

reef1859

snig1862

find1865

to pull off1865

cop1879

jump1879

slock1888

swipe1889

snag1895

rip1904

snitch1904

pole1906

glom1907

boost1912

hot-stuff1914

score1914

clifty1918

to knock off1919

snoop1924

heist1930

hoist1931

rabbit1943

to rip off1967

to have off1974

the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > off or away

atbearOE

reavec1175

heavea1240

ravishc1330

reachc1330

outbeara1400

trussa1400

remove1459

withberec1500

rapt1571

rear1596

rap1599

to carry off1684

1684 E. Ravenscroft Dame Dobson v. ii. 67 Dame... Your Wifes Kinsman..brought a Constable with him to take her from you, and intends to annul the Marriage. Gill. How! Dame. You have not bedded her. Look to't, you must not let him carry her off.

1778 A. Hamilton Let. 12 Mar. in Papers (1961) I. 438 For punishing Kidnappers or persons who aid the enemy in carrying off the peaceable inhabitants.

1829 T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin xi. 141 The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

1986 N. A. M. Rodger Wooden World (1988) vi. 243 The ship was anchored off Cape Coast Castle..when Samuel Couchman the first lieutenant seized the ship and carried her off to sea.

1997 L. H. Larson & B. J. Cottrell Gate City (enlarged ed.) iv. 94 Passing policemen..picked the unfortunate man up, placed him in custody, and carried him off to jail.

a. transitive. To do (something) successfully; (in later use) spec. to wear (a garment, style of clothing, etc.) successfully; to look good in (something). Also: to cause (something) to be or seem more acceptable or tolerable; to lessen the impact of (something).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (transitive)] > achieve or effect

helpc1410

obtain?a1425

procurec1425

practise?a1439

upholdc1450

furnish1477

to bring about1480

to bring to passc1513

conduce1518

contrive1530

to make good1535

moyen1560

effect1581

effectuatea1586

to level out1606

operate1637

to carry offa1640

efficiate1639

work1761

engineer1831

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > make acceptable [verb (transitive)]

recommend1582

ingratiatea1635

to carry offa1640

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat v. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. G4/1 I considered It was a jest, and carried off so quaintly It made me merry: very merry.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 443 They promised their assistance to carry off his impeachment with a mild censure.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. iii. 63 A rapid intellect and ready eloquence may carry off a little impudence.

1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen III. 152 I have not enough diamonds to carry off black velvet.

1919 T. S. Eliot Let. 21 Apr. (1988) I. 285 I take some self-satisfaction in having carried off a tour de force in succeeding with an occupation apparently so incongruous.

2001 Star 6 Jan. 87/3 Britney's boy..manages to carry off classic cool by teaming a smart V-neck with some baggy combats.

b. to carry it off.

(a) transitive. To be successful in a situation which is difficult or challenging in some way; to give the impression that one is competent or at ease in a particular situation, often despite one's inexperience, difficult feelings, lack of knowledge, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > courage > moral courage > one who braves danger > defy danger (person or thing) [verb]

face1570

dare1580

out-countenancec1585

to stand up to1596

outdare1598

to carry it off1663

to take the bull by the horns1711

brave1776

1663 R. Head Hic et Ubique iii. ii. 39 Phant. If thou shu'dst see me as poor as thy self, yet there wilbe a great deal of difference between thee and me. Hic. Prithee why? Phant. Because I have more wit and a better carriage than thou hast to carry it off.

1799 Witch, & Maid of Honour I. 224 Let them snigger and sneer just as much as they like, Bridget will carry it off in defiance.

1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde i. 8 Frightened too..but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan.

1985 J. Wyndham Love Lessons (1986) iii. 104 ‘You sounded as if you knew all about it!’ ‘Oh I can always carry it off when cornered’.

1996 Nation (N.Y.) 24 June 35/1 What a mating dance of crane shots, dollies, close-ups, medium shots, tilts, cross-cuts..! Bertolucci carries it off with such apparent ease that you feel as if his direction is a force of nature.

†(b) transitive. To win the prize; to be victorious in a contest. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win

win1297

obtain1441

to go away with it1489

triumph1508

to carry (also get, lose, win, etc.) the day1557

to bear it1602

carry1602

to carry away the bucklers1608

to carry one's point1654

to carry it off1828

to ring the bell1900

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 158 Some of those who think they carry it off through the height of their plumed bonnets and the jingle of their spurs.

3. transitive. Esp. of an illness: to cause (a person) to die; to kill (a person); to be the death of.Cf. to carry away 4 at Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > cause of death > cause death [verb (transitive)]

to be the death ofOE

slayc1000

reavec1230

dissolvec1374

extinguish1540

expiate1594

to carry away1603

to carry off1679

devive1869

to settle the number of a person's mess1881

1679 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 19 Sir Jonas Moore..was seized with an ague, and had two or three violent fits, which carried him off.

1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 221. ⁋2 A Fever, which..at last carried him off.

1815 R. B. Sheridan Let. 7 Dec. (1966) III. 240 This racking cough which seized me last saturday sennight..seems resolved to..carry me off.

1994 Fortean Times June 16/3 His health was worn away by drugs and alcohol and a brain tumour carried him off at the age of 45.

4. transitive. To win (a prize, sporting title, etc.), esp. easily or effortlessly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > win (any contest or prize) > win (a prize, etc.)

to bear awayc1325

getc1330

winc1330

to go away with1489

to carry away1565

carry1570

to bear off?1615

to carry off1680

to take out1976

1680 tr. J.-B. Tavernier Coll. Several Relations & Treat. i. xiii. 45 The Rowers come ashoar with their Captains to kiss the King's Hand, and they that have behav'd themselves most stoutly and nimbly, carry off the Marks of his Bounty.

1747 tr. J. B. Le Blanc Lett. Eng. & French Nations II. lxxx. 303 His lordship, or his worship, whose horse carries off the prize, is rewarded for his care.

1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism vii. 57 The North Briton carried off the palm.

1937 G. Goodwin in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories (1976) 81 She carried off every prize at the local eisteddfods, and people were saying she should have her voice trained.

2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Mar. 41/1 The Chinese carried off the men's and women's singles titles.

to carry on

1. transitive. To maintain or keep up (something); to prevent (something) from stopping.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > continue (an action) [verb (transitive)]

i-haldOE

to hold fortha1325

sustainc1325

containc1330

continuea1340

maintainc1385

carrya1393

keepc1425

to keep upa1535

to stick by ——1551

to hold on1568

to hold out1595

to carry on1609

subsist1633

to keep at ——1825

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 162 He..carries on the streame of his dispose, Without obseruance, or respect of any.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 32 The Blood will move more weakly, slowly, and rarely, and the Circulation will be carry'd on more rarely.

1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. iii. 52 The conversation was carried on .

1877 L. P. Brockett Cross & Crescent 34 The conflict which has been carried on for nearly three hundred years.

2003 Times (Nexis) 7 Apr. 27 Each year Carlisle Racecourse holds a race for the Bell, carrying on a tradition dating back to at least the 16th century when racing bells were commonly given as prizes.

2. transitive. To engage in or conduct (work, a business, etc.); to participate in (esp. a regular or habitual activity).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > practise or carry on [verb (transitive)]

doeOE

followOE

holda1100

found1340

exercec1374

enhaunta1382

usea1398

proceed1399

apply?c1400

practise?c1430

exercise1467

takea1500

plya1513

enure1549

prosecute1567

inurea1577

manage1579

to stand on ——1599

to carry on1638

cultivate1654

society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer

steerc888

leadc1175

guyc1330

guidec1374

governa1382

ministera1382

treat1387

administer1395

dispose1398

skift?a1400

warda1400

solicit1429

to deal with1469

handlea1470

execute1483

convoy?a1513

conveyc1515

mayne1520

to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handa1522

keepa1535

administrate1538

solicitate1547

to dispose of1573

manure1583

carry1600

manage1609

negotiate1619

conduct1632

to carry on1638

mesnage1654

nurse1745

work1841

operate1850

run1857

stage-manage1906

ramrod1920

1638 J. Burroughs Excellency of Gracious Spirit i. ii. 106 Where ones spirit is set right, it doth not onely enable to go on with some comfort in one condition, but in any condition that God calls unto, to carry on the work of that condition with joy.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 305. ¶5 The last War, which had been carried on so successfully.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. v. 44 Besides the battery mentioned above, there are three other forts carrying on for the defence of the harbour, none of which are yet compleated.

1801 M. Edgeworth Prussian Vase in Moral Tales III. 28 His trial must be carried on in open day.

1953 Sussex County Mag. 27 454 Mr. Parsons carried on his business as a gilt worker until his retirement at the age of 77.

2000 Church Times 24 Mar. 13/3 He is looking forward to moving to Cambridgeshire where so much experimental bio-technical work is being carried on.

3. transitive. To continue or develop (something) beyond a stage already attained; to advance (something).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > advance (a proceeding) from previous stage [verb (transitive)]

evolve1623

to carry on1648

unroll1829

1648 Mercurius Britanicus No. 13. 97 What a strange impertinent deal of diligence they make use to re-spirit and carry on their lost and shattered designs.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 374 There was another circumstance, which probably assisted to carry on the mistake.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §5. 511 Poetic Satire had become fashionable in Hall..and had been carried on vigorously by George Wither.

1935 Fellowship Mar. 3/1 Pacifism does not renounce the struggle, but carries it on with the more effective weapons of non-violence.

2015 J. Rebanks Shepherd's Life (2016) 99 I'm not just a grandson, I am the one that carries on his life's work.

a. intransitive. Originally U.S. To indulge in behaviour regarded as inappropriate or unacceptable; esp. (colloquial) to speak or behave in an excessively angry, excitable, or unreasonable way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave, conduct, or bear oneself [verb (intransitive)]

i-bereeOE

workeOE

makeOE

fere1154

walka1200

steera1250

to take onc1275

fare1340

to fare with oneself1340

containa1375

to let latesa1400

usea1400

dealc1400

rulea1425

act1593

comport1616

carry1650

deport1667

demean1678

behave1721

conduct1754

to carry on1828

the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > be in state of nervous excitement [verb (intransitive)]

to take ona1450

seethe1609

trepidate1623

to take on oneself1632

flutter1668

pother1715

to be upon the nettle (also in a nettle)1723

to be nerve all over1778

to be all nerve1819

to be (all) on wires1824

to break up1825

to carry on1828

to be on (occasionally upon or on the) edge1872

faff1874

to have kittens1900

flap1910

to be in, get in(to), a flap1939

to go sparec1942

to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964

faffle1965

to get one's knickers in a twist1971

to have a canary1971

to wet one's pants1979

tweak1981

the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt, philander, or dally [verb (intransitive)] > engage in flirtation or have an affair

to carry on1828

mash1883

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > have illicit intimacy

intrigue1710

to carry on1828

the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > show anger [verb (intransitive)] > speak angrily

spitc1386

ragea1400

blowc1475

blustera1494

storm?1553

pelt1594

tear1602

fare1603

to speak or look daggers1603

to blow hot coalsc1626

rant1647

scream1775

to pop off1914

to carry on1947

1828 A. Royall Black Bk. II. 27 They romped and squalled, and to use a Yankee phraze, ‘carried on at such a rate, that he and Mrs. C. were greatly annoyed by their rudeness’.

1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing 18 These Legislaters have been carrying on so.

1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde iv. 37 Stamping with his foot..and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman.

1947 ‘N. Shute’ Chequer Board 4 She don't half carry on about the beer I drink.

2006 Word July 12/1 The public misdemeanours of Pete Doherty, Russell Crowe and Kate Moss can't hold a candle to the way stars used to carry on.

b. intransitive. To have an affair or flirtation with someone; to have a romantic or sexual relationship which is regarded as socially unacceptable, esp. because of being conducted outside marriage or alongside another relationship.

ΚΠ

1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry iii. 26 With lynx eyes she [sc. the chaperone] notes how Lady Carmine's eldest girl is ‘carrying on’ with young Thriftless.

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. v. 88 She and I carried on for a whole season. People talked.

1903 Daily Chron. 19 Feb. 7/5 Plaintiff accused him of ‘carrying on’ with another girl at the same time as he was engaged to her.

2005 Independent on Sunday 10 July 23/1 Old Georg was carrying on with a floozie in her fifties.

a. intransitive. Nautical. To continue a course; to continue sailing, or carrying out one's duties on the ship. Frequently in imperative, as a command given by a senior officer.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)]

to hold a wayOE

to hold forthc1200

to hold ona1225

reignc1300

lasta1325

continuea1340

to continue doing or to doc1384

pursuea1425

perseverec1425

to hold one's wayc1480

prosecute1528

to go on1533

to run on1533

keep1548

to follow on1560

insist1586

to keep on1589

to carry on1832

to carry on1857

string1869

society > armed hostility > military service > serve as a soldier [verb (intransitive)] > come on or off duty > continue or resume duty

to carry on1832

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > continue on course

to stand on1627

to carry on1832

1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 643 Carry on, carry on; reef none, boy, none.

1853 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun in Wks. III. 35 She carried on, as sailors say, under easy sail.

1915 ‘Bartimeus’ Tall Ship i. 14 The ship..began to heel slowly over. The Captain..raised the megaphone to his mouth. ‘Carry on!’ he shouted. ‘Every man for himself.’

1996 P. O'Brian Yellow Admiral vi. 140 If we carry on till come two bells, and then wear ship and stand east-south-east and half east, we fine, we all right, sir.

b. intransitive. Military. To continue following or proceed to follow orders or instructions. Frequently in imperative, as a command given by a senior officer.

ΚΠ

1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand in Blackwood's Mag. 198 3 ‘Do you understand my order?’ thundered the Colonel... ‘I do, sir,’ replied Blaikie politely, ‘but—’ ‘Then, for heaven's sake, carry on!’

1920 Three Hundred & First Engineers iii. ix. 141 Through it all the men ‘carried on’ and accomplished their mission.

1945 Observer 21 Oct. 6/1 (advt.) For thousands of Service men and women the order is ‘carry on’.

2004 D. Hart Favor for FDR 122 ‘Thank you again, Colonel Darby,’ Brock said. ‘It has been a honor to serve with your men.’ Darby just said, ‘Carry on, captain.’

a. intransitive. To continue as before; to continue an activity; (hence) to keep going and make the best of things.

ΚΠ

1848 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 9 Dec. 6/5 The general fault with insolvents was, that they carried on until there was nothing left for the creditors.

1939 Poster (Ministry of Information) Keep calm and carry on.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 529/2 She formerly had often felt that she couldn't carry on; now she felt able to manage fairly well.

1985 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Sept. In the country as a whole life carries on.

2015 J. Colgan Summer at Little Beach St. Bakery xiii. 211 Do you know how many failed start-ups I ran before we hit it big?..Nine!..But I didn't care, because I knew I could make it. Then I did make it. Then it all went to shit again... But you carry on!

b. intransitive. With with: to continue with an activity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)]

to hold a wayOE

to hold forthc1200

to hold ona1225

reignc1300

lasta1325

continuea1340

to continue doing or to doc1384

pursuea1425

perseverec1425

to hold one's wayc1480

prosecute1528

to go on1533

to run on1533

keep1548

to follow on1560

insist1586

to keep on1589

to carry on1832

to carry on1857

string1869

1857 Illawarra (Austral.) Mercury 14 Sept. 2/1 At all events, the Ministry have decided in keeping the present House together—that is, we suppose, if they can carry on with it.

1918 Aussie: Austral. Soldiers' Mag. Feb. 2/1 This word ‘Digger’..came to France when the sandgropers gave up digging on the goldfields of W.A. and carried on with it on the battlefields.

1942 R. A. J. Walling Corpse with Eerie Eye vi. 185 You're doing nobly. Carry on with the good work.

1999 A. Hadley Tough Choices 113 Schools are being strongly encouraged to help any pupils who are pregnant to carry on with their studies.

c. intransitive. With gerund or verbal noun: to continue doing something.

ΚΠ

1885 Glasgow Herald 31 Jan. 7/6 There had not been one [sc. a drought] of such a severe character for 40 years in the field where they carried on working.

1960 I. Jefferies Dignity & Purity xii. 183 She carried on enthusing about cushion covers.

1969 (title of film) Carry on camping.

2020 Gazette (Essex) (Nexis) 29 Jan. The officers..tried to stop the 19-year-old but he carried on walking.

7. intransitive. To continue moving or travelling in a particular direction. Also of a road, path, etc.: to extend in a particular direction.

ΚΠ

1906 Boy's Own Paper 14 Apr. 446/1 A third [duck]..carried on until he reached the sea-wall, when he faltered in his flight and pitched amongst a growth of rank grass.

1968 Highway Code 24 If you find that you are heading away from where you want to go, you must carry on until you reach the next exit.

1998 T. Garratt & A. Brown Discovery Road (e-book ed.) These tunnels carry on for miles under the desert.

2007 R. Millward Apples ii. 23 Fairhurst took us down Keith Road near where my house was, but we carried on past the church..and ended up in Acklam.

to carry out

a. transitive. To remove (something) from a place; to take (something) from one place to another, usually from an indoor place to outside, or from a near place to a further one; to take outside.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away

ateec885

withbreidec890

animOE

overbearOE

to do awayOE

flitc1175

reavec1175

takec1175

to have away?a1300

to draw awayc1300

weve13..

to wend awaya1325

withdrawa1325

remuec1325

to carry away1363

to take away1372

waive1377

to long awaya1382

oftakec1390

to draw offa1398

to do froa1400

forflitc1420

amove?a1425

to carry out?a1425

surtrayc1440

surtretec1440

twistc1440

abstract1449

ostea1450

remove1459

ablatea1475

araisea1475

redd1479

dismove1480

diminish?1504

convey1530

alienate1534

retire1536

dimove1540

reversec1540

subtractc1540

submove1542

sublate1548

pare1549

to pull in1549

exempt1553

to shift off1567

retract?1570

renversec1586

aufer1587

to lay offa1593

rear1596

retrench1596

unhearse1596

exemea1600

remote1600

to set off1600

subduct1614

rob1627

extraneize1653

to bring off1656

to pull back1656

draft1742

extract1804

reef1901

?a1425 (a1400) Brut (Corpus Cambr.) 298 Þe toun..of al þing þat myȝte be bore & caryed out was robbid and despoyled.

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 54^v Now carrie out compas, when haruest is donne, where barlie thou sowest, my champion sonne.

1679 H. Croft Short Narr. Discov. College of Jesuits 9 They had carried out and hid in a Pigs-Cot adjoining, about two Horse-loads of Books.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 87 I had the loose Earth to carry out; and which was of more Importance, I had the Seiling to prop up.

1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship vii. 127 Mother used to get up at five in the morning..to sweep the front porch and carry the trash out.

1997 D. Hansen Sole Survivor xv. 174 He gathered up his crayfish pots from their storage place among the ferns behind the sand dune and carried them out onto the jetty.

b. transitive. To take (a dead person) for burial, etc. Chiefly with adverbial phrase indicating the way in which a person is taken, esp. in to be carried out feet first (see foot n. and int. Phrases 1g(b)(ii)).Cf. main sense 1b and to carry forth 2 at Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > [verb (transitive)] > carry corpse

carry1466

to carry out1526

infera1575

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts v. 6 And the yonge men roose vp..and caryed him out, and buryed him [also in 1611 King James].

1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 32 That man..will ere long be taken off from his leggs, lye upon a death-couch, be carried out by Bearers, and consume to grave-gelly as well as we.

1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve xi, in Poems (new ed.) 99 When I have said goodnight for evermore, And ye see me carried out from the threshold of the door.

1998 Hansard Commons (Electronic ed.) 28 Jan. 377 I love this place very much, and I hope to stay here until they carry me out in a box.

2018 Cape Argus (Nexis) 15 May (E1 ed.) 11 We buy a house hoping, maybe, to leave it to our children when we are carried out feet first.

c. transitive. Cricket. to carry out one's bat: (of an opening batter) to remain not out at the end of the team’s completed innings; sometimes also used more generally of batters who are not out at the end of an innings; = to carry one's bat at Phrases 11.See also to carry one's bat through at to carry through 3 at Phrasal verbs, and to take out one's bat at take v. Phrasal verbs 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > be not out

to bring out one's bat1833

to carry one's bat1833

to carry out one's bat1834

to take out one's bat1838

to carry one's bat through1839

1834 Norfolk Chron. 21 June The Norfolk men raised their innings to 216, Fuller Pilch carrying out his bat.

1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xviii. 311 The satisfaction of carrying out his bat for 14.

2011 Kent & Sussex Courier (National ed.) (Nexis) 19 Aug. 74 Harvey carried out his bat for an undefeated 150 (17 fours, two sixes) from 169 balls.

†2. transitive. Chiefly in passive. To cause (a person, the mind, the heart, etc.) to be transported by spiritual desire, ecstasy, or other strong emotion. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > transport with rapture or ecstasy [verb (transitive)]

ravishc1390

rap1509

extol1526

exalta1533

reave1556

rape1566

rapt?1577

enravish1596

trance1597

to carry out1599

ecstasy1631

translate1631

elevate1634

rapture1636

ecstatize1654

enrapture1740

ecstasiate1823

ecstasize1835

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [verb (transitive)]

to carry out1599

1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 6 These things transport, and carrie out the mind.

1658 A. Burgess Doctr. Orig. Sin iv. i. 443 There is no way to cure this..till our hearts be carried out with delight and complacency in heavenly things.

1659 Coll. Several Passages conc. O. Cromwell 13 These were his Requests, wherein his heart was so carried out for God and his People..that at this time hee seems to forget even his own Family.

1792 Let. 5 Feb. in Arminian Mag. (Philadelphia) June (1794) 328 I am so carried out with desire for the welfare and salvation of others, that the flame is almost..too powerful for nature.

3. transitive. To bring (something) to completion or fruition; to bring to a conclusion. Also: to put (something) into action or practice; to cause (something) to be implemented; to undertake.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (transitive)]

lasteOE

ylastc888

wieldeOE

doeOE

dreeOE

forthOE

fremeOE

workOE

affordOE

full-bringc1175

fulfila1225

perfurnisha1325

complishc1374

performc1384

achievea1393

chevisea1400

practic?a1425

exploitc1425

execute1477

furnish1477

through1498

practa1513

enure1549

chare1570

enact1597

act1602

to carry out1608

outcarry1611

celebrate1615

complya1616

peract1621

tide1631

implement1837

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxii. 65 Hardly shall I cary out my side Her husband being aliue.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 117 Henry..proceeded to carry out his father's ultimate intentions.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 371 The law which requires a sentence to be carried out.

1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad i. 15 I don't wish to detract from the valuable work carried out by the Uniform Section.

2008 Metro 28 Apr. (London ed.) 16/2 The Taliban admitted it carried out the attack in Kabul.

to carry over

1. transitive. Finance and Accounting. To transfer (a sum, balance, etc.) to the next financial or accounting period. Also (Stock Market): to postpone settlement on (an account, shares, etc.) beyond the day on which it is due; to allow (a dealer or broker) to postpone settlement. Also intransitive (of a balance, deficit, etc.): to be transferred.Cf. to carry back 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry forward 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry up 5 at Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > carry over or pay to delay transfer

to carry over1745

contango1900

to give on1928

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures

control1422

avouch1539

allocate1551

respond1588

score1592

carry1652

post1707

to carry forward1721

off-reckon1721

O. Ni.a1726

to carry over1745

rule1845

to write down1876

to close off188.

qualify1884

accrue1915

net1947

gross1954

strip1980

1745 in W. Fleetwood Chronicon Preciosum (new ed.) App. iii. 17 Carried over 129l. 15s. 09½d.

1854 C. Fenn Eng. & For. Funds 109 Contango is the sum paid per Share or per Cent for carrying over such Shares for a longer period than they were originally bought for.

1880 Standard 15 Dec. The charge for ‘carrying over’ English Railways advanced in the later hours.

1887 Daily News 26 Feb. 6 The smaller brokers and dealers were ‘carried over’ on sufferance.

1911 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 465. 140 Unexpended balances carry over from the first to the second year but lapse at the end of the second fiscal year of the biennium.

1986 Consumer Rep. Sept. 588/3 Balances or deficits in an account carry over from one month to the next.

2017 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 9 Feb. 12 The additional £220 million included..£42.5 million in capital funding and £35 million in financial transactions carried over from the previous budget year.

a. transitive. To retain (something) and deal with or apply it in a new situation or context; to transfer. With from, into, or to, indicating the situation or context from or to which something is transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)]

remuea1325

movea1382

translatea1382

transfer1382

transfigurec1384

removea1387

to turn overa1425

transume1483

to carry about1496

traduce1546

transplant1555

transact1621

transmigrate1635

hand1642

to make over1713

recover1719

to carry over1850

1850 Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. Apr. 41 This prestige of sanctity and reverence was carried over into the Christian creed and practice.

1931 Art Bull. Mar. 24 The artist..was trained to work with the pen, and carried over the technique with which he was most familiar into his painted commissions.

1953 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 15 Aug. 34/2 Mr. Lattimore..carries over into English the irregular prosodic patterns of the Greek.

2006 Why don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? (2007) v. 119 When the telephones acquired push buttons in a grid the ordering of the buttons was carried over from the old telephone dial.

b. intransitive. To be transferred to another situation or context. With from, into, or to, indicating the situation or context from or to which something is transferred.In quot. 1911 in the context of a scheme providing a caddy service for local golf courses.

ΚΠ

1911 Survey (N.Y.) 7 Oct. 975/2 The caddy influence carries over into another group of those who have never been to the mountains but are prospecting for the chance.

1953 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 15 Aug. 16/2 Rank's theories have carried over..directly into Carl Roger's client-centered therapy.

1966 J. Oliansky Shame, Shame on Johnson Boys ix. 180 Our main problem right now is that we don't have a signature sound, something distinctive about us which would carry over from one type of music to another.

2012 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Jan. A good trader needs to be very assertive, and to have a very quick response. Thing is, that attitude carries over into their interactions with other people.

†3. transitive. To cause (an army, regiment, etc.) to switch allegiance from one side in a conflict to another. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > win over

procurec1325

to gain over1582

bribe1592

overwork1593

overwin1600

smooth1608

overpersuade1639

spirit1656

over-entreata1661

engage1699

to bring over1724

to draw over1734

conciliate1796

to carry over1855

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's mind [verb (transitive)] > cause change

convert1814

to carry over1855

to turn around1888

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 64 To carry over a regiment or two would do more harm than good.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxii. 718 Marlborough had promised to carry over the army, Russell to carry over the fleet.

1894 C. Dalton Eng. Army Lists II. 214 In the spring of 1689 [he] was detected in a traitorous design to carry over the whole regt. to Lord Dundee.

1911 C. H. Gardiner Centurions of Cent. i. 10 Perhaps, after all, Marlborough was not so bad as he was painted, for at the same time Earl Russell had treasonably offered to carry over the fleet.

4. transitive. To extend (the duration of an event) to a succeeding day or date, esp. owing to unforeseen circumstances; to postpone (an event).

ΚΠ

1908 Wright & Ditson's Lawn Tennis Guide 100 Aside from the two days of rain, which necessitated carrying the tournament over until the following week, the National Championships were a great success.

1976 Daily Tel. 29 Nov. 23/1 The Newbury stewards began an inquiry..but, since trainer Mick Easterby was not present, the hearing was carried over until Sandown Park this Friday.

2007 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Aug. (Sport section) 2 Surrey were supposed to have played but their Gillette Cup match was carried over because of rain.

to carry through

1. transitive. To bring (something) to a successful conclusion: to bring to completion; to put into effect.intransitive in quot. 1608: to lead to an outcome.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] > bring to an end or conclusion > successfully

to carry through1597

crown1602

1597 [implied in: F. Bacon Ess. f. 10 A man is an ill husband of his Honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can Honour him. (at carrying n. Compounds 1a)].

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 3 My good intent may carry through it selfe to that full issue for which I raz'd my likenes.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. i, in Wks. (1851) I. 64 In none of our historians do we find..mention of any difficulty in carrying through the measures which were agreeable to the king.

1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 67/2 It is by similar means that conservative meetings..may be carried through in every part of the country.

1980 Antiquaries Jrnl. 60 299 Gregory was perhaps the only man who could have carried the scheme through in the teeth of public rage.

2002 T. Nairn Pariah viii. 95 New Labour had decided on an election, [and] carried it through against considerable difficulties.

2. transitive. To help (a person or thing) to overcome a difficult period or situation.Cf. main sense 20.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > following up, through, or prosecution > follow up, through, or out [verb (transitive)] > to the end

to go through1548

to set on1596

to set through1600

to carry through1609

to see outc1700

to follow out1762

to see through1828

1609 T. Wilson Expos. Sixt Chapter Hebrewes 58 They may not looke that Christ and his grace will beare and carry them through against all assaults of their sinfull lusts.

a1712 W. King tr. P. de la Croix Persian & Turkish Tales (1714) I. 149 Tho' she was assured of his Love, she apprehended his Resolution might not carry him through.

1872 U.S. Insurance Gaz. Apr. 247 Being a large capitalist, he hoped to carry the company through.

a1918 R. S. Bourne Hist. Literary Radical (1956) 244 What I come to is a sense of..suddenly finding that a philosophy upon which I had relied to carry us through no longer works.

2006 Athletics Weekly 14 Dec. 9/3 Once I got in the race..the adrenalin kicked in and that carried me through.

3. transitive. Cricket. to carry one's bat through: (of an opening batter) to remain not out at the end of the team’s completed innings; sometimes also used more generally of batters who are not out at the end of an innings; = to carry one's bat at Phrases 11.See also to carry out one's bat at to carry out 1c at Phrasal verbs, and to take out one's bat at take v. Phrasal verbs 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > be not out

to bring out one's bat1833

to carry one's bat1833

to carry out one's bat1834

to take out one's bat1838

to carry one's bat through1839

1839 Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 4 July The batting of a player by the name of Luff did him great credit, as he went in first and carried his bat through, scoring 37 the first innings.

1986 Times 15 July 38/4 Darwin kept his head and led his side to victory carrying his bat through for 53 not out.

2019 Hitavada (India) (Nexis) 13 Apr. On Friday against Himachal Pradesh in the semi-finals, Jemimah struck a masterly unbeaten 185 carrying her bat through.

4. intransitive. Originally and chiefly North American. to carry through on: to be true to one's word on (something); to deliver on. Later also without on: to do what one has promised or threatened.

ΚΠ

1919 Chicago Commerce 27 Dec. 33/1 We did do our duty and..we carried through on it.

1954 J. Thompson Hell of Woman xiv. 106 Mona was a good kid. Anyone could see that she was; and she'd carried through on this deal like a little brick. Doing what she was told.

1979 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 21 Mar. Arab countries have threatened retaliation before but have not carried through.

1998 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 8 Jan. (Final ed.) a8 Finance Minister Martin carried through on his promise to balance the budget.

to carry up

†1. transitive. To support the weight of (a person or thing) while walking or moving along; to bear. Also: to hold or move (the body) in a particular way (cf. main sense 39). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)]

to bear upeOE

underbearc950

bearOE

holdc1000

weighc1200

to hold up1297

upholda1300

sustainc1330

undersetc1330

comforta1382

underbear1382

upbear1390

sustaina1398

upkeepc1412

carrya1425

supporta1425

chargea1500

convey1514

avoke1529

confirm1542

stay1548

to carry up1570

bolster1581

lift1590

upstay1590

atlas1593

sustent1605

statuminatea1628

firm1646

appui1656

establish1664

shoulder1674

to keep up1681

upheave1729

withhold1769

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 105/1 Shee was caryed vp from drowning.

1619 R. West Schoole of Vertue: 2nd Pt. sig. B2^v To carry vp the body faire, is decent, and doth shew A comely grace in any one.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. i. 52 I take it, she that carries vp the Traine, Is that old Noble Lady, Dutchesse of Norfolke.

1685 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 340 These six persons following carried up the pall.

2. transitive. to carry up the rear: to be last in a march, procession, etc.; = to bring up the rear at rear adj.² and n.² Phrases 2a. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (transitive)] > be last of a series

to carry up the rear1629

tail1835

1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime iii. 17 Wee march forth of the Colledge by two and two, Father Thunder himselfe carrying vp the reare.

1795 G. Macintosh Let. 13 July in G. Macintosh Biogr. Mem. C. Macintosh (1847) 140 Wardrope should appoint Robertson and Laing to carry up the rear, as they can be most depended upon for experience.

1980 P. McLaren Cries from Corridor iii. 150 Candy, who was carrying up the rear, sported a black velvet opera cape and shook a noisy tambourine.

†3. transitive. To trace (something) back to a particular time. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > [verb (transitive)] > trace back

repeat1533

to carry upa1676

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. ii. 136 He carries up the Egyptian Dynasties before the Flood.

1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. iv. 75 The feud..is carried up by them to the feud between Joseph and his brethren.

1878 Academy 19 Oct. 373/2 Their cultus was suspected to be of Greek origin.., but is now carried up to the Persian period.

4. transitive. Frequently in passive. To build (a wall or other structure) to a given height; to construct (a building).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > build or construct [verb (transitive)] > continue building to given height

to carry up1699

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. viii. 160 The Walls are carried up to a good heighth, and of a considerable thickness.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 80 Men were only Instruments..for carrying up his Spiritual House.

1747 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 61 The value of the Land, & of so much of the Buildings as was carried up before such Notice, should be paid by the Commissioners of the County.

1904 C. F. Mitchell Brickwork & Masonry ii. 78 The base of the corner is extended along the wall, and is racked back as the work is carried up.

1992 G. R. H. Wright Anc. Building in Cyprus iv. 373 The masonry..was carried up to roof level.

5. transitive. Bookkeeping and Accounting. To transfer (an item) from one account, ledger, etc., to the next, or (more generally) from one accounting period to the next.Cf. to carry back 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry forward 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry over 1 at Phrasal verbs.

ΚΠ

1774 Monthly Misc. Suppl. 351/1 (table) Fifth Half-Year. Expences. Rent 100 0. Labour 15 0. Rates 17 10...Carried up £.150 10.

1815 B. Montagu Digest Law Partnership II. 256 (table) Balance carried up 360 19 7.

1890 Regulations conc. Rebate Taxes Tobacco & Snuff (U.S. Treasury Dept.) No. 1391 14 (table) Total... (Carried up to column 7).

2008 M. J. Sterling Business Math for Dummies xv. 210 The ending balance for each month is carried up to the beginning cash balance of the next month.

†6. transitive. To bring (a payment) up to an expected level; to bring in line. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > make proportionate (to) > parts of a series (by bringing up)

to carry up1817

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. iii. 392 Unable to carry up its payments to the level of the taxation.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier, designating a container, receptacle, device, etc., in which something may be carried, or which enables carrying.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.

ΚΠ

1882 Specif. Means Transportation Paulins Stoves, & Ranges U.S. Army 62 Cruppers, two with carry straps and two with bodies and hip-strap attached.

1959 Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 5 Oct. 7/3 (advt.) Fold-up plastic raincoat with carry pouch.

1987 T. Winton Blood & Water (1993) 157 He wrapped the pink-faced little boy tighter in his blankets and put him in the carry basket.

1996 Glasgow Herald 31 May 16/1 (advt.) Mummy style specialist sleeping bags—with carry sack. Suitable for climbers, back packers and hill walkers.

2012 Independent 31 Oct. 39/3 A play is a living entity; creating it can feel like trying to pack a furious cat into a carry-cage.

C2.

carry bag n. a bag for carrying something; spec. (a) one for carrying shopping; = carrier bag n.; (b) one designed to hold a specific item so that it can be transported safely.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > carried on shoulder

shoulder-bag1912

carry bag1917

tote1959

sling-bag1965

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > carried in hand > paper or plastic, with handle

carrier bag1907

carry bag1917

carriera1935

1917 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 16 Oct. (Last ed.) 6/3 A carry bag to take along when one shops or markets, so that you may carry home the little packages, is a true economy.

1986 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 11 Jan. The humble plastic carry bag is moving up-market to become a status symbol in its own right.

1987 T. Conover Coyotes v. 188 Slung over his shoulder was a white costal, the woven-fiber carry-bag of the sierra.

2009 N.Y. Mag. 21 Dec. 152/2 (advt.) Keep the little ones entertained for hours with the Wikki Stix Activity Set... Set includes playboard, idea booklet, plus handy carry-bag.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	carry
释义	carryn.¹ Brit. /ˈkari/, U.S. /ˈkɛri/ Forms: see carry v. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: carry v. Etymology: < carry v.The senses given here reflect numerous different instances of conversion from the verb. 1. A cart, wagon, or other small vehicle used to carry or transport something; spec. (a) (Scottish and Irish English (northern)) a two-wheeled barrow used to transport small, heavy weights, e.g. to move a harrow from field to field; (b) (English regional (northern)) a type of wagon with railed sides. Now regional (chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern)) and rare.See also curry n.⁴ ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] carc1320 chara1400 charet?a1400 wagon1542 carry1600 rotan1676 messagerie1777 pillbox1789 bandy1791 Pennsylvania wagon1800 gharry1810 rath1813 vardo1819 rig1831 1600 J. Stow Annales (new ed.) 1272 On the last of March Henry Barrow and Iohn Grenewood were brought to Tyborne in a carry. 1820 Caledonian Merc. 20 July Alexander then asked the loan of her carrie. 1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Carry, a kind of waggon with solid floor but unplanked sides..Used for carting stone, wood, etc., and in hay and harvest time. 1887 Sc. Leader 20 May 4 One of the..horses..started, violently throwing Wilson on to the front of the ‘carry’. 1994 S. Douglas in J. M. Kirk & C. Nielands Images, Identities, & Ideol. 73 So next mornin who passed but five or six o the Black an Tans, in a ‘carry’ an they pulled up at the camp an they came oot an sat doon at the fire. †2. Falconry. The nature or quality of a bird's response to being carried (carry v. 3b) . Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > [noun] > hawking procedures casting1388 to come to reclaima1398 rebukingc1400 plumage?a1450 enseamingc1575 imping1575 mewing1575 weathering1575 manning1580 lure1614 carry1618 coping1855 seeling1859 1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie xix. 90 Shee is a buzzard; shee is of a bad carry, he can make her do nothing. 3. Scottish, Irish English (northern), English regional (northern), and Manx English. a. The movement, drift, or direction of the clouds through the sky. Also: the clouds moving through the sky collectively. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in various parts of Scotland in 1938. ΚΠ 1724 Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 89 The Wind and Carry of the Clouds. 1819 H. Busk Vestriad v. 870 Still towering, till the faithless currents change, And adverse carries floating hopes derange. 1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 292 The clouds are driving fast aloft in a carry from the sea. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) 15/1 It'll be fair today because t'carry's i' t'west. 1924 Swatches o' Hamespun 4th Ser. 78 The laden carry frae the north Had cled auld Moray lan'. b. The sky, the heavens. Cf. cloud n. 3c. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in north-eastern Scotland in 1938. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun] roofeOE welkinc825 heaveneOE heightOE heavenOE liftOE loftOE welkin1122 skies?a1289 firmamentc1290 skewa1300 spherea1300 skewsc1320 hemispherec1374 cope of heavenc1380 clouda1400 skya1425 elementc1485 axle-treea1522 scrowc1540 pole1572 horizona1577 vaulta1586 round?1593 the cope1596 pend1599 floor1600 canopy1604 cope1609 expansion1611 concameration1625 convex1627 concave1635 expansum1635 blue1647 the expanse1667 blue blanket1726 empyrean1727 carry1788 span1803 overhead1865 1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 60 I min'..sin' he us't to speel Aboon the carry. a1810 R. Tannahill Poems & Songs (1815) 158 Mirk and rainy is the night, No a starn in a' the carry. 1892 W. Strang Earth Fiend ii. 10 O'er the fields at midnicht hour, 'Neath pit-mirk carry. 1925 in Sc. National Dict. at Carry n.¹ [Moray] There's no a cloud in a' the carry. 4. Military. The position of a rifle, sword, etc., that is held in an upright position resting on the shoulder, as when on parade or giving a salute (see carry v. 42, carried adj. 3). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > weapon-training > manual exercise > position of weapon > specific chargea1616 recover1692 secure1766 present1777 port arms1795 carry1802 salute1833 trail1833 ready1837 order1847 parade rest1862 slope1868 port1918 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Handle arms This term was formerly used in the manual from the support to the carry. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. v. 170 At the halt, the lance to be brought to the ‘Carry’. 1890 Regulations Instr. Pioneer Corps & Exped. (Brit. S. Afr. Company) ii. 3 A Mounted Rifleman with arms drawn will observe the same rules as above, except that he will bring his arms to the Carry instead of dropping his right arm to the side. 2007 W. F. Lee Boys in Blue White Dress 246 I snap my sword to the Carry, flashing it just past his head and popping it against the seam of my blue blouse at the shoulder. 5. North American. a. A route for carrying boats and supplies from one navigable waterway to another, or past a waterfall, rapids, or other obstruction; = portage n.¹ 5b. Cf. carrying place n. at carrying n. Compounds 3, carriage n. 8. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > [noun] > by dragging or carrying over land > place of carrying place1689 portage1698 halover1699 carriage placea1710 carriagea1724 carry1838 1838 J. T. Hodge in C. T. Jackson 2nd Ann. Rep. Geol. Maine 57 The upper carry is about eight miles above the lower, and between them are rapids and falls. 1860 All Year Round 29 Sept. 588 We crossed the carry at day-break. 1942 L. D. Rich We took to Woods i. 22 All summer long Ralph hauls canoes and duffle across the carry for camping parties. 2015 G. Westrich Hiking Maine (rev. ed.) xlviii. 241 The first four lakes are connected by short carries, or canoe portages, alongside streams. b. The action or an act of carrying boats and goods from one navigable waterway to another, or past a waterfall, rapids, or other obstruction; a journey made carrying boats in this way; = portage n.¹ 5a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > [noun] > by dragging or carrying over land carriagec1685 portage1698 portaging1836 carry1860 1860 C. E. Whitehead Wild Sports in South 375 It carried them so near Indian River..that they had but a very short carry to get across. 1913 W. P. Eaton Barn Doors & Byways iii. 52 The current seemed to widen, grow more sluggish, promising perhaps a mill pond, the excitement of a ‘carry’. 2012 Duluth (Minnesota) News-Tribune (Nexis) 20 May To reach Lac La Croix from the Nina Moose River, they must portage seven times, including one half-mile carry. 6. A number, digit, or remainder carried (carry v. 11b) from one column or place to the next in an arithmetical calculation, typically when a column of digits adds up to more than ten; the action or an instance of carrying a number, etc.Chiefly with reference to the operations of calculating machines and computers. ΚΠ 1844 T. Fowler Descr. Table Part of New Calculating Machine 7 Having made a carry of 10 towards the negative side, we must bring its equivalent one division more towards or in the positive side, and thus the figure 2 becomes 3. 1914 W. B. Chriswell Princ. & Methods Arithm. Teaching ii. 22 See that the carry is made at once whether beginning with the bottom or top figure. 1948 Proc. Symp. Large-scale Digital Calculating Machinery 1947 41 This..had the advantage of providing a simple means for representing a nine's complement and gave a definite signal for a carry. 2000 P. Rojas in R. Rojas & U. Hashagen First Computers iii. 250 If binary addition is implemented in a straightforward way, carries have to be passed from one bit position to the next. 7. a. The range of a gun or similar weapon; the distance a bullet, cannonball, etc., is propelled by a gun. Cf. carry v. 7a, 7b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > to which a thing may be shot shot1455 shoot1545 level1548 reach1572 range1588 scope1830 carry1851 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > range of gun or shot reach1572 right range1637 blank1747 carry1851 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. v. 56 To my joy, not one antelope, but a brace of these beautiful animals, was quietly grazing beyond; but alas! too far off for the carry of my rifle. 1938 F. Pratt Navy iv. 206 The galleys turned, shooting at him from a range beyond the carry of his carronades. 1981 Infantry Mag. Jan. 10/1 What made it especially useful for long-range sniping was its core of tungsten carbide, which greatly increased the ‘carry’ of the bullet. 1997 K. Alder Engineering the Revol. (2010) iii. 98 He undertook a series of tests to show just how much the quantity of gunpowder could be lessened without reducing the gun's carry. b. gen. The reach, scope, or range of something; the power of something to carry for a distance. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > power or range of voice reach?1615 carry1859 lung-power1900 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > scope or range of ampleness1509 reach1546 compass1555 zodiac1560 extent1593 range1599 verge1599 extension1604 latitude1605 extendure1610 point-blanka1616 comprisement1640 comprisurea1641 virge1640 tour1699 purview1751 gamut1753 sweep1781 diapason1851 carry1859 1859 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 141/2 The bones of the cuttle-fish..are often discovered in spots to which they must have been conveyed by gulls or other sea-birds—beyond the high-water mark and the carry of the most powerful wave. 1906 N. Amer. Rev. July 117 It wings its many-colored flight beyond the carry of the human vision. 1986 J. Breslin Table Money xiv. 383 He began it by standing in front of the room and speaking in a voice that had far more carry to it than at any time in the term thus far. 2018 S. Mileson in C. M. Gerrard & A. Gutierrez Oxf. Handbk. Later Medieval Archaeol. in Brit. xliv. 720 The identification of co-variant social patterns and sense of belonging in the two landscapes was strengthened by fieldwork assessment of the carry of the sound of church bells. c. Golf. The distance a ball travels before reaching the ground; (occasionally also) the trajectory of the ball in the air. Later also in other sports: the distance travelled by a ball that has been struck, thrown, etc. Cf. carry v. 7c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > distance hit or trajectory carry1887 1887 W. G. Simpson Art of Golf 112 Getting both hands well under the club also produces a low carry. 1888 Scotsman 27 Sept. He used his cleek again on the way to the long hole, but his third with it had not enough ‘carry,’ and lay short. 1899 Golf Illustrated 29 Dec. 319/2 The carry alone is estimated to have been close on two hundred and fifty yards. 1953 B. Locke On Golf ii. xvi. 118 You must not take a divot with this shot, otherwise you will not get the loft and the carry needed. 1966 Indian Cricket (ed. 20) 8 Daljit Singh played a real slogger's innings. His hits had a long carry. 2006 S. Lyle To Fairway Born (2007) xiii. 237 It was a long carry over the bunker down the left side—270 yards all uphill. 8. a. The action or an act of carrying something or of being carried.See sense 5b for earlier use with specific reference to the portage of boats; use of carry with the sense ‘action or act of carrying’ is typically in this context before the 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > action of carrying carryinga1382 bearing?a1425 vectiona1623 totinga1862 carry1880 1880 G. Fraser Lowland Lore 134 She [sc. a hare] got a guid lang carry [in a sack]! 1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 i. v. 117 We hoped that their [sc. porters] reluctance would be reduced..by the fact that the carry had now been once successfully accomplished. 1951 J. Frame Lagoon 66 I'm having first go, Minnie said. But I haven't even had a carry of it [sc. a kite], I protested. 1987 J. Curran K2 (1989) i. ix. 109 Bev and I had already done a carry but after Renato's death I just couldn't summon the courage to go up the glacier again. 2005 E. Barr Plan B (2006) vii. 87 Alice jumped in front of me, arms held up for a carry. I picked her up. b. American Football. An act of running or rushing with the ball. Later also Rugby: an act of running hard with the ball into the opposition defensive line, striving to make ground by breaking through tackles. Cf. rush n.² 11a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres rush1857 punt-out1861 goal-kicking1871 safety1879 safety touchdown1879 scrimmage1880 rushing1882 safety touch1884 touchback1884 forward pass1890 run1890 blocking1891 signal1891 fake1893 onside kick1895 tandem-play1895 pass play1896 spiral1896 shift1901 end run1902 straight-arm1903 quarterback sneak1904 runback1905 roughing1906 Minnesota shift1910 quarterbacking1910 snap-back1910 pickoff1912 punt return1914 screen forward pass1915 screen pass1920 power play1921 sneak1921 passback1922 snap1922 defence1923 reverse1924 carry1927 lateral1927 stiff-arm1927 zone1927 zone defence1927 submarine charge1928 squib1929 block1931 pass rushing1933 safetying1933 trap play1933 end-around1934 straight-arming1934 trap1935 mousetrap1936 buttonhook1938 blitzing1940 hand-off1940 pitchout1946 slant1947 strike1947 draw play1948 shovel pass1948 bootleg1949 option1950 red dog1950 red-dogging1951 rollout1951 submarine1952 sleeper pass1954 draw1956 bomb1960 swing pass1960 pass rush1962 blitz1963 spearing1964 onsides kick1965 takeaway1967 quarterback sack1968 smash-mouth1968 veer1968 turn-over1969 bump-and-run1970 scramble1971 sack1972 nose tackle1975 nickel1979 pressure1981 1927 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 23 Dec. (Home ed.) 32/2 Presnell averaged six and a half yards each carry and carried the ball fifty-four times. 1962 Springfield (Mass.) Republican 18 Nov. 131/2 Grisham, who outrushed the entire Missouri team by getting 116 yards on 23 carries, sparked the scoring drive with a 30 yard run. 1984 News (Mexico City) 12 Mar. 30/1 Dupree's 11 carries made him the Breakers' most active rusher. 2007 M. Oriard Brand NFL i. 10 In just nine seasons Brown rushed for 12,312 yards, averaging 5.2 yards per carry. c. Basketball. An act of allowing the ball to rest in one or both hands while dribbling, in violation of the rules. ΚΠ 1947 Jrnl.-News (Nyack, N.Y.) 29 Mar. 7/1 Ref Mack called a carry and Coach Tripp..hollered, ‘Hey, are you sure of that?’ 2014 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) (Nexis) 10 Feb. (Sports section) Ferrell was called for a carry and Troy Williams traveled, allowing Minnesota to shave four points off the margin before the half. d. U.S. The action or practice of carrying a gun on one's person in public; an instance of this.Recorded earliest in concealed carry n. at concealed adj. Compounds. See also open carry n. at open adj. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1982 Right to keep & bear Arms: Rep. U.S. Senate Judiciary Comm. (97th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 62 A similar technique was used to construe Missouri's 1875 carrying ban to apply only to concealed carry. 1991 Police May 19 (advt.) Whether for on-duty or off-duty carry, a Taurus pistol is the right choice. 1999 W. Gibson All Tomorrow's Parties lv. 229 He'd tucked the Smith & Wesson into the side pocket of his trousers, not a safe carry ordinarily but a convenient one under the circumstances. 2013 J. S. Rupp in B. Fitzpatrick Shooter's Bible Guide Concealed Carry Foreword p. vii/1 If you're legally allowed to own a handgun, you're legally allowed to carry concealed anywhere in the state where such carry is not prohibited. 9. Finance. The holding of an asset or maintenance of an investment position in a securities market; the cost or benefit of doing this for a given period. Also: the carried interest paid to an investment fund manager out of the fund's profits. Cf. cost of carry n. at cost n.³ Phrases 1c, carry trade n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1946 R. G. Rouse Let. 19 Apr. in Federal Open Market Comm. Relationship with Brokers & Dealers in Govt. Securities (1952) 12 A problem which has caused us concern has been the substantial amount of dealers' holdings of restricted Treasury bonds, not only for the interest carry, but also the likelihood of capital appreciation. 1954 U.S. Monetary Policy: Recent Thinking & Experience: Hearings before Subcommittee Econ. Stabilization Joint Comm. Econ. Rep. Congr. U.S. (83rd Congr., 2nd Sess.) 274 A ‘negative’ carry thus develops which makes it expensive and at times prohibitively costly to maintain adequate portfolios. 1990 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 22 June 4 The ‘carry’ will remain in the partnership and never impact the bank's books. The bank will show a gain of $8, reduced by expenses of $1, with a ratio of expense to net profit of 1-to-7 or 0.14. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 July iii. 4/2 A manager of a $2 billion fund that earns a 15 percent annual return collects a $40 million management fee, plus 20 percent of the fund's $300 million profit, or another $60 million, in carry. The tax issue concerns the carry. 2014 Rev. Financial Stud. 27 413 Banks' P&L [sc. profit and loss] increased by the positive carry of these assets and charges for regulatory capital were low. Compounds C1. U.S. As a modifier, with the sense ‘designating a gun carried on one's person in public; of or relating to the practice of keeping a gun on one's person in this way’, as in carry gun, carry pistol, carry permit. See sense 8d. ΚΠ 1956 ‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater iv. 27 What do I need a permit for a dead gun for?.. So I had it changed to a carry permit. 1992 Women & Guns July 44/1 If your carry gun is a D-frame Colt or Charter Arms pistol of similar dimensions, the hammer shroud now available..will eliminate that annoying—and perhaps dangerous—problem. 2004 L. Barnes Deep Pockets (2005) xxxii. 252 I was sure he had a carry license, but if he didn't—well, none of my business. 2019 Power Line (Nexis) 1 Apr. My carry pistol, a Sig Sauer P938, has a seven-round magazine. C2. In sense 9. carry trade n. Finance the practice of using borrowing in a currency with low interest rates to fund investment in securities with a higher rate of return; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [noun] fair trading1685 grocery1689 carriage trade1720 sale or (formerly and) return1795 Labour Exchange1828 security system1831 smousingc1876 postal trade1902 triangular trade1934 switch trading1967 relationship management1970 p-y-o1977 counter-trade1978 pick-your-own1980 counter-trading1983 fair trade1986 carry trade1994 1994 B. Fleckenstein in Barron's 1 Aug. 22/2 The carry trade was probably the single-largest cause of the financial boom that we unleashed in stocks and bonds in the last three years. 2003 Daily Tel. 8 May 29/7 Nobody can quite explain sterling's moves, but one factor is the unwinding of carry trades. 2012 K. P. Gallagher in W. Grant & G. K. Wilson Consequences Global Financial Crisis vii. 122 Given the more robust growth and higher interest rates in emerging markets, the carry trade resulted in another mass inflow of capital to the developing world in 2009–11. carry trader n. Finance a securities trader who makes carry trades (carry trade n.). ΚΠ 1994 Barron's 5 Dec. mw8/1 So long as the cost to finance, or ‘carry’, a position is less than what the securities earn, it's like printing money. And the more that's borrowed to leverage the position, the bigger the investment genius the carry trader is. 2007 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 19 Jan. iii. 5/1 ‘Their [sc. Japan's] warnings to carry traders are going to fall on deaf ears if they can't even raise rates’ from 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent. 2013 R. I. McKinnon Unloved Dollar Standard v. 61 The carry trader would run the risk of losing money if the investment currency suddenly depreciates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). carryn.² Brit. /ˈkari/, U.S. /ˈkɛri/, Scottish English /ˈkarɪ/, Irish English /ˈkæri/ Forms: α. 1700s– carry, 1900s carrie, 1900s– corry. β. Irish English (northern) 1900s– carra. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Partly a borrowing from Irish. Etymons: Scottish Gaelic caraidh; Irish caraidh, cara. Etymology: In α. forms (i) < Scottish Gaelic caraidh and Irish caraidh, coraidh, use as nominative of an oblique form of cora , cara weir (Early Irish cora (genitive corad ) palisade, weir), cognate with Welsh cored weir, dam (12th cent.), further etymology uncertain, perhaps < a Celtic base related to the Germanic base of hurdle n. In β. forms (ii) directly < Irish cara. Scottish and Irish English (northern). Now rare. A weir on a river, esp. one to divert water into a mill race. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > weir > types of mill weirlOE foot weirc1474 kiddle1477 rowte weir1584 catchwater drain1744 carry1753 dam-head1762 overfall1764 gauge-weir1791 shutter weir1880 1753 in H. D. Gribbon Hist. Water Power in Ulster (1969) x. 169 (modernized text) 11th August The New Carry To cash paid Wm. Jamison for 27 days work man and horse. ?1765 State of Process D. Macdonald against Duke of Gordon 9 By reason of the lowness of the water, that the fish could not get over the carries. 1883 Ld. Saltoun Scraps II. 80 Just above the Lady's Stream is the Black Stream, across the foot of which a carry or dam runs diagonally. 2002 T. Deeson Stones that ground Corn x. 82 The lade banks and the carry at the head of it had to be maintained, sometimes at heavy cost. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). carryv. Brit. /ˈkari/, U.S. /ˈkɛri/ Forms: Middle English–1500s care, Middle English–1500s karye, Middle English–1600s carie, Middle English–1600s cary, Middle English–1600s carye, Middle English– carry, 1500s–1600s carrie, 1900s– carr' (English regional), 1900s– kerry (Irish English (northern)); also past tense and past participle: Middle English caride, Middle English ykarid. Scottish pre-1700 caire, pre-1700 cairey, pre-1700 cairie, pre-1700 cairrie, pre-1700 cairy, pre-1700 care, pre-1700 carrie, pre-1700 carrye, pre-1700 cary, pre-1700 carye, pre-1700 kare, pre-1700 kary, pre-1700 karye, pre-1700 1700s carie, 1700s– carry; also past tense and past participle: pre-1700 cairit, pre-1700 carit, pre-1700 caryt, pre-1700 karyd; see also carried adj. Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Probably partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French carier; Latin carriare. Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman carier, carrier, karier, kerier (also charier ), corresponding to Old French, Middle French charrier (French charrier ) to transport, especially by means of a cart or wagon (c1100 in Old French), in Anglo-Norman also to carry away or off (early 14th cent. or earlier) < Anglo-Norman car , Old French, Middle French char car n.¹; probably also partly < post-classical Latin carriare to transport by land, to take or transport (wheat, hay, etc.) from the field after harvesting (both frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), to transport by water, to carry off (unlawfully), to take (a dead person) to be buried (all from 13th cent. in British sources), to hold, contain (in transportation) (15th cent. in British sources), variant of carricare (see charge v.), probably resulting from association with Anglo-Norman carrier.There is no indication that the core meaning in Anglo-Norman and Middle French ever shifted, as it did in English, from vehicular transportation (frequently of commercial goods) to taking or transporting people or things by means of physical effort (compare sense 3a) or to having or holding something while moving around or along (compare senses at II.); for these porter* and its derivatives are normally used in French (see port v.²). With sense 3c compare slightly later use of French charrier in the same sense (1621; 14th cent. in Middle French in sense ‘(of a hawk) follow and pursue (a bird)’). I. To transport and related uses. * To transport or move a person or thing from one place to another. 1. a. transitive. To convey or transport (goods, people, etc.) from one place to another, esp. by means of a vehicle or vessel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] haveeOE ferryOE weighOE bearOE take?a1160 weve13.. carry1348 passa1350 tow1391 geta1393 convey1393 winc1400 transport1483 set1487 convoy1500 traduce1535 port1566 repair1612 vehiculate1628 transmute1683 transplant1769 gallant1806 transit1859 inveigh1878 waltz1884 sashay1928 conduct- 1348 in C. Welch Hist. Pewterers of London (1902) I. 4 If ani be take henforwarde bering or carying suche wareȝ to sel. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4963 (MED) He myhte such a lode To toune with his Asse carie. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xiv. sig. Ciij Al vitailis that vpon cartis he shal doo carye wyth hym. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 44 To the hole destructyon..of al other caryd in theyr schyp. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings ix. 28 His seruants caried him in a charet to Ierusalem. View more context for this quotation 1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile ii. vi. 61/1 Apples, Oyl, and excellent Wine..they carry over those vast Plains called the Pampa's..in large Carts. 1844 J. H. Carleton Prairie Logbks. 14 Aug. (1983) 23 Many of the men are so weak, we are obliged to carry them in wagons. 1948 G. W. Southgate Eng. Econ. Hist. (new ed.) viii. 72 All trade..had to be carried in British ships. 2005 Wire Dec. 79/3 Graham is carried in the back seat of a van from a hotel to his home after he has taken a double dose of the sedative Halcion. †b. transitive. To take (a dead person) to be buried. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [verb (transitive)] > carry corpse carry1466 to carry out1526 infera1575 1466 Expenses J. Paston's Funeral in Paston Lett. (1904) IV. 228 Geven to Martyn Savage..awaytyng upon my master at London be vii. dayes before that he was caryed, iis. xd. c. intransitive. Of a person or company: to provide the services of a carrier (carrier n.¹ 1a); to transport goods, mail, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1502–3 Churchwardens' Accts.: Ashburton, Devon in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 48 Item for caryge of þ^e bell to exceter & for ther labour and coste that caryd—iiij s vj d. 1645 J. Milton On University Carrier ii, in Poems 29 If I may not carry, sure Ile ne're be fetch'd. 1733 T. Gent Antient & Mod. Hist. Rippon List of York Carriers (at Sheffield) The Carrier, (who also carries to Rotherham and Barnsley) comes on Wednesday Night to Mr. Meal's at Foss-Bridge End. 1871 Mechanics' Mag. 15 July 38/2 You ought to ascertain whether your customer at Y—— actually received the truss or not; and this you ought to learn from the books of the railway company which carries between London and Y——. 1939 E. C. MacVeagh Summary Neutrality Act 1939 5 Restrictions on American vessels carrying to named belligerent states. d. transitive. To take or transport (wheat, hay, etc.) from the field after harvesting. Frequently in passive. Now rare.Cf. to carry in at Phrasal verbs.In quot. 2010 in a work of historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > carry corn carry1573 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 50^v Thy haye being carrid, though carter had sworne: carts bottom well boerded, is sauing of corne. 1667 N. Fairfax Let. 5 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 15 Wheat is harvest first, begining about ye end of Aug: they share it & carry it forthwith. 1793 J. Byng Diary 11 July in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 196 Mr. W carried his hay after once turning it... What will the country lasses, accustom'd to turning, raking, cocking, etc, say to this? 1851 H. Mayo On Truths Pop. Superstit. (ed. 2) xi. 170 There is nothing growing there; it is a field of wheat, but it has been cut and carried. 1919 A. Ollivant Two Men liii. 272 In the Brooks..the hay had already been carried fine in quality and light in weight. 2010 J. Ann World's Fair Rose (2011) xvii. 221 Lest they [sc. the hay ricks and the corn stacks] get wet inside and then heat-up and catch fire as often happens when first carried and not dried enough. 2. a. transitive. Of a car, train, ship, or other vehicle: to transport or convey (a person or thing); to be the means by which (a person or thing) is transported. Also (esp. in early use) of a horse or other animal, in the same sense. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [verb (intransitive)] carryc1390 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (transitive)] > transport (a person or thing) carryc1390 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. ii. l. 132 Þenne careden heo for Caples to carien hem þider. 1591 A. Colynet True Hist. Ciuill Warres France v. 330 They caused the Mules which caried the ladders, and other necessarie things, to goe through the fieldes vnto a quarrie of stone nigh the towne. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World i. 2 The Craft which carried us was a Lanch, or Long Boat. 1788 Calcutta Chron. 31 Jan. The next day they got on a dung-cart, which carried them 4 leagues into the country. 1878 H. A. Giles Gloss. Subj. Far East 145 Tea-clipper, a fast-sailing ship, built to carry tea from China to London. 1920 Flight 12 560/1 Increased quantities of heavy and bulky freight being now carried to and from Paris by the Handley Page aeroplanes. 2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 July a4/5 Three buses carrying dozens of athletes, officials and journalists to the Olympic Village from Heathrow Airport lost their way in the maze of London's streets. b. transitive. Of the action of the wind, the sea, etc.: to cause (a person or thing) to be swept along or away; to move (a person or thing) from a particular place, esp. vigorously or violently.See also to carry away 1a at Phrasal verbs. ΚΠ 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xii. 47^v The fishes being carried by the violence of the floud, and tyde of the Euxine Sea into Propontide. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 87 And floating straight, obedient to the streame, Was carried towards Corinth. View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 1 Jan. (1948) I. 147 That's a damn'd lie of your chimney being carried to the next house with the wind. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 363 Blood carries with it the basis of nutrition. 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) i. ii. 11 The soil may be carried long distances by the agency of water and wind. 1970 P. Berton National Dream iv. ii. 157 He was swept into a river and carried two hundred feet downstream. 2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 9 June a15/1 From time to time gusts of tropical wind carry the downpour sideways. 3. a. (a) transitive. To take or transport (a person or thing) from one place to another by means of physical effort, esp. using the hands or arms.The sense of transporting is prominent; cf. sense 28a where the emphasis is on lifting and sustaining a person or thing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > carry carryc1400 fure1487 port1566 porter1609 tote1677 hug1788 to carry me (also you, it, etc.) (and) go1837 pack1846 hump1853 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] > convey by carrying (of person) carryc1400 to take up1576 tote1677 porter1791 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1977) l. 1765 Baltaȝar to his bedd with blysse watȝ caryed. c1450 (c1350) Alexander & Dindimus (Bodl.) (1929) l. 725 Ȝe..carien bi costum corn to hure temple. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xl. 11 He shall gather the lambes with his arme, and carrie them in his bosome. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. i. 25 Ile beare your Logges..Ile carry it to the pile. View more context for this quotation 1796 M. Edgeworth Lazy Lawrence in Parent's Assistant (ed. 2) I. 74 Did not I order you..to carry these bottles to the cellar? 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 29 Dumple could carry six folk, if his back was lang aneugh. 1976 D. Llwyd Morgan tr. J. Edwards in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories 240 Mam was in the wash-house, carrying hot water from the boiler and was in a lather of sweat. 2000 U. Izundu in C. Newland & K. Sesay IC3 371 I shouted, dumping my bag next to the staircase, which I knew annoyed the hell out of him, because I never carried it upstairs, as I couldn't be arsed. He was a neat freak. (b) intransitive. To take or transport a person or thing from one place to another by means of physical effort.Cf. to carry double at Phrases 7, to fetch and carry at fetch v. 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (intransitive)] > carry bearc1450 carry1587 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 813/1 They were put to carie and draw. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 272 Shee can fetch and carry: why a horse can doe no more; nay, a horse cannot fetch, but onely carry . View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Marsh Marsh his Mickle Monument 88 Thy Sheephook and thy Tarbox both are mine, I taught thy Dog to carry and bring. 1862 T. H. Huxley On Knowl. Causes Phenomena Org. Nature iv. 105 The ‘Carrier’ [sc. a type of pigeon], I learn..does not carry; a high-bred bird of this breed being but a poor flier. 2003 J. G. McLaughlin Irish Chicago (2004) i. 9 Life was not easy for the early Irish immigrants... They dug, lifted, and carried, and eventually worked their way up and out of their original communities. b. transitive. Falconry. To walk with or hold (a hawk) on one's hand, when hunting with or training the bird. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > [verb (transitive)] > carry hawk on fist carry1575 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 125 Then you shall make as though you vncoupled your spanels to hunte and put vp the game, and you shall carry your hawke vnhooded. a1700 (?c1500) Treatise Hawking (Sloane 2721) in J. E. Harting Perfect Booke for Kepinge Sparhawkes (1886) p. ix (MED) Carry yor hauk much, especially in her sorage. ?1796 W. Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman 364/1 Seek out where wild geese, cranes, or other large wild fowl, lie..carry your hawk unhooded behind your horse, stalking towards them. 1881 E. B. Michell Falconry in Min. in Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 39/2 He [sc. the young hawk] is ‘carried’ for some hours amongst men, children, dogs, and horses, so as to become accustomed to their presence. 1964 F. L. Beebe & H. M. Webster N. Amer. Falconry & Hunting Hawks xxvii. 216/2 The first evening and the following day the new Kestrel should be carried and introduced to many new sounds and sights. 2014 H. MacDonald H is for Hawk iii. 20 They carried hawks on their fists: orange-eyed goshawks..with barred grey tails and breast feathers of vermiculated snow. c. intransitive. Falconry. Of a hawk: to fly away with the quarry. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > actions of Falconiformes aire1472 jouk1486 mantle1486 to turn taila1586 carry1614 1614 S. Latham Falconry i. iv. 14 Affirming that Doves will make Haggards carrie: which is not so, for that is idlenes and want of skill in their keepers, that causes them to Carry. 1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation 85 If you doe it oftner, she will become in time very loth to part with the Pelt, and by this means you will provoke her to carry. 1826 J. S. Sebright Observ. Hawking (1828) 8 Less disposed to carry, i.e. to fly away with the game; a fault to which all hawks are more or less inclined. 1986 B. B. Broughton Dict. Medieval Knighthood & Chivalry 85 A hawk was said to ‘carry’ when she flew away with the quarry as the falconer approached. 2014 B. Crane Sparrowhawks (e-book ed.) As soon as your spar or musket starts to move on to smaller legal quarry you will be able to see if the hawk carries. 4. transitive. To take or convey (a letter, message, news, etc.) to a person or place. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > message > send a message or messenger [verb (transitive)] > bear or take (a letter, message, etc.) carryc1450 c1450 (c1350) Alexander & Dindimus (Bodl.) (1929) l. 184 And bad him in haste To þe king..carien his sonde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 104 Nay Sir, lesse then a pound shall serue me for carrying your Letter. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 870 These tidings carrie to th' anointed King. View more context for this quotation 1786 J. Scott tr. I. Khan Memoirs 32 I declined going, and observed, that I could not carry intelligence so very ridiculous and groundless. 1873 J. Johnston Hist. Bristol & Bremen in State Maine xviii. 192 John Nelson..learned of the preparations in progress for an attack upon Pemaquid, and hired two French soldiers to desert and carry information of the fact to Boston. 1950 Winnipeg Free Press 11 Jan. 22/7 He went from the lowliest job in the financial district—a runner carrying messages—to one of the highest. 2020 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 Apr. (Final ed.) a14 Abraham had died within 24 hours of his wife, before anyone had carried the news to him. 5. a. transitive. To oblige (a person) to go somewhere, esp. as a prisoner or captive; to take (a person) somewhere by force. Also (now only) with noun complement, as in to carry (a person) captive, prisoner, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > catch or capture [verb (transitive)] i-lecchec1000 fang1016 hentOE takeOE alatchlOE catchc1275 wina1300 to take ina1387 attain1393 geta1400 overhent?a1400 restay?a1400 seizea1400 tachec1400 arrest1481 carrya1500 collara1535 snap1568 overgo1581 surprise1592 nibble1608 incaptivate1611 nicka1640 cop1704 chop1726 nail1735 to give a person the foot1767 capture1796 hooka1800 sniba1801 net1803 nib1819 prehend1831 corral1860 rope1877 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > deprive of liberty by restraint [verb (transitive)] > take captive > carry off as captive carrya1500 a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) l. 981 (MED) Herbard caried dalton..to the Castelle of Gloucetter; There was dalton prisonere ful longe. 1654 Weekly Intelligencer 4 Apr. 215 Amongst whom were some young Lairds, and others, who..were all of them taken, and carried prisoners to Dalkeith. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 10 Aug. (1972) VI. 186 My she-Cosen Porter..to tell me that her husband was carried to the Tower. 1791 S. Freeman Town Officer 47 They shall apprehend him, and carry him before some Justice of the Peace. 1837 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Ireland I. 243/2 Having separated his lordship's family and the garrison, [he] carried them prisoners to Kennard. 2002 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 16 Oct. 17 At the age of 16, he was carried captive into Antrim by the Scots. b. transitive. To take or escort (a person) to a place; to conduct. archaic or regional in later use (now chiefly Caribbean or U.S. regional).Frequently used in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, where modern English typically has take. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > show (the way) [verb (transitive)] > accompany as a guide leada900 conduec1330 conductc1400 convey14.. condc1460 conducec1475 convoyc1480 carrya1522 wain1540 train1549 marshal1590 gallant1806 usha1824 trot1888 get1984 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. i. 57 The Troianys..by power of hie Iove ar hiddir cary. 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. E4 He carried him to his Palace, a most pleasant coole edifice. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 27 Feb. (1970) I. 70 My landlord carried us through a very old Hospital. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 5 My Father..carried his Wife with three Children unto New England. 1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. iv. 51 Mrs Campbell..no doubt used the Scotticism, ‘Carry any ladies that call up stairs.’ 1882 J. Payne tr. Bk. Thousand Nights & One Night I. xxxi. 291 As soon as it was night, the servant came to him and carried him to the house. 1934 C. Carmer Stars fell on Alabama 155 He started runnin' liquor just to get money to carry his girl to parties. 1994 S. Moodie-Kublalsingh Cocoa Panyols Trinidad 173 in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 175/1 She remain in the mad house for 25 years! When I was a little boy my uncle carry me to see she once or twice. c. transitive. To take or conduct (a vessel or vehicle, a horse, etc.) to a place; to cause (a vessel, etc.) to travel a certain distance. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] sit1542 saddle1551 carry1613 endorsea1637 set1648 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] governa1387 sail1566 manure1569 manage1600 carry1613 navigate1652 work1667 skipper1883 1613 W. Shute tr. J. J. Orlers & H. van Haestens Triumphs of Nassau 75 Peter Vander Does, who carried the sayd vessell and the other likewise into Zeland, which afterward through carelesnesse and negligence sanke. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 2 He that can carry a Ship to Lisbon, may with the same Ease carry it round the World. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 20 May 49 The Lady carried her horse a thousand miles in a thousand hours. 1818 R. Jamieson in E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (ed. 5) I. 66 The Scots..talk of..getting upon the back of a cart-horse, and carrying him to grass. 1845 J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Exped. Rocky Mts. 260 They rarely carried home horses, on account of the difficulty of getting them across the desert. 1988 TnT Mirror 19 Apr. 32 in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 175/1 Licensing officers will no longer be going to police stations to visit vehicles involved in serious and fatal accidents. The cops will have to carry the vehicles to the licensing departments. 1998 D. F. Marley Wars of Americas 490/2 The crew of the Uruguayan schooner Palmar also mutinies and carries the vessel into Buenos Aires. d. transitive. Backgammon. To move (a man) to or from a particular part of the board. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [verb (transitive)] > actions bear1550 hit1599 point1680 carry1743 1743 E. Hoyle Short Treat. Back-gammon ii. 12 When you carry your Men home, in order to lose no Point, you are to carry the most distant Man to your Adversary's Barr Point, that being the first Stage you are to place it on. 1820 Hoyle's Games Improved 296 Six and five, a man to be carried from your adversary's ace-point, as far as he can go, for a gammon, or hit. 1883 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 620 If the winner has borne all his men off before the loser has carried all his men to his own table, it is a backgammon. 1941 M. Hopper Backgammon iv. 52 Try to play your throws so that each number will carry a man into your home table. 6. transitive. Of wind: to propel or drive (a vessel and its passengers) across a body of water.intransitive in quot. 1737. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > of wind: propel or convey a vessel or person carry1526 waft1653 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xxvii. 17 We let doune a vessell and soo were caryed. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Nauis The shippe flitteth beyng caried with winde and sayle. 1654 Perfect Acct. Intelligence Armies & Navy No. 194. 1548 Gen. Blake is still here with part of the fleet looking only for his victualling ships, and a fair wind to carry him on his intended Voyage. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 72 The wind, which carries one into the port, drives another out to sea. 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. vi. 9 Where winds can carry, or where waves can roll. 1866 A. D. Taylor West Coast of Hindostan Pilot xii. 300 The equator will soon be crossed, and the S.W. monsoon will carry the vessel towards Hindostan. 1995 D. Miller Wreck Isabella 176 They set off and a fine Westerly carried them past Loup's Head before nightfall. 7. a. (a) intransitive. Of a gun or other weapon: to propel a missile a particular distance, or in a particular way. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > project through space > to specific distance or in specific way carry1558 range1858 1558 Ld. Wentworth Let. 2 Jan. in State Papers Foreign Mary (P.R.O.: SP 69/12) f. 13 The ennemyes..w^th their corriors (w^ch assuredly shote very great boulet & cary farre). 1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery ii. 4 After you have made one shot, and finde the Peece carry just over the Marke. 1730 W. Webster Compend. Course Pract. Math. II. 207 When a cannon seems to carry point blank, or to raise its stroke, the line of aim is not parallel to the cavity of the cannon. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius viii. 226 About as high as a crossbow can carry. 1938 Title to Submerged Oil Lands: Hearing before Comm. Judiciary (U.S. House of Representatives: 75th Congr., 3rd Session) 182 Rivers, lakes, estuaries, straits, and gulfs, especially those which do not extend the ordinary width of double the distance a cannon can carry. †(b) intransitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. With adverb indicating manner, as in carry level, carry true, etc. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iii. sig. E Welcome Basilisco, thou wilt carry leuell, and knock ones braines out with thy pricking wit. a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 19 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) Hee, that saluteth a man as farre off as his eye can carry levell. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §3 Scholars are men of Peace, but..their pens carry farther, and give a lowder report than thunder. View more context for this quotation 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 377 His eye for a fine, telling phrase that will carry true is like that of a backwoodsman for a rifle. b. intransitive. Of a ball, bullet, or other projectile: to be propelled a particular distance, or in a particular way. ΚΠ 1800 J. Williams tr. H. O. Scheel Treat. Artillery iii. 96 Cannister shot made in this manner will carry very far. 1875 R. Clark Golf 213 The balls carried considerably higher than the weather-cock. 1976 Field & Stream Oct. 164/3 Some hunters use No. 4 buckshot or BBs. on the theory they will carry further—which indeed they will. 2008 G. Morris Conspiracy of Ravens v. 66 You know how far a rifle bullet can carry. c. transitive. Golf. Of a player, a club, etc.: to strike and propel (a ball) forwards; to cause a ball to travel (a distance), or pass (a particular point, obstacle, etc.) at a single stroke. Also intransitive: to propel a ball a certain or sufficient distance. Later also in other sports. Cf. carry n.¹ 7c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > play at ball [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball hang1838 carry1861 pass1889 1861 Handy Bk. St. Andrews xxx. 112 Mr John Graham..carried a ball..right over the two bunkers, on to the lower putting green of the second hole. 1887 W. G. Simpson Art of Golf 155 Many prefer it [sc. a dragging shot] to an ordinary loft at shortish distances, the latter being more difficult within, say, thirty yards than when the player has further to carry. 1887 W. G. Simpson Art of Golf 184 His game is easily insulted by being made to go round, or play short of, a bunker, it ought to be allowed to try to carry. 1903 J. Braid in E. F. Benson & E. H. Miles Bk. Golf 30 At a greater distance where the mashie will not carry I should very often use an iron. 1929 Morning Post 17 June 16/2 Off the next ball—a full-pitch—he only just failed to carry the ring. 1953 B. Locke On Golf ii. xvi. 117 It is important at times to be able to hit very high iron shots to carry formidable obstacles, such as big bunkers or even trees. 2014 Today's Golfer Mar. 56/1 The rescue club is a reliable favourite and carries an ideal distance with only a 20% chance of going off line and into the bunkers. 8. a. transitive. Of a channel, drain, pipe, or other conduit: to allow (something, esp. water, sewage, etc.) to pass from one place to another. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > convey by a channel or medium conductc1420 derive1483 channel1560 carry1565 convey1601 conduit1628 transmit1664 1565 J. Hall Anat. 2nd Treat. vi. 26 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. Water pypes carye water from the conduict head to serue a whole citye. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xxvii When it begins once to carry a more forcible streame it is called Tigris. 1750 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria (1752) 733 The Canal..serves to carry the water..to this city. 1886 Law Times 81 59/2 A 9-inch sewer, which carried the drainage from the houses into the main brick sewer. 1947 Amendments to Nat. Gas Act: Hearings before Comm. Interstate & Foreign Commerce (U.S. House of Representatives, 80th Congr., 1st Sess.) 360 From Montana a large natural gas pipe line carries natural gas into the Dakotas and Nebraska. 2001 Model Engineer 186 122/3 The upper pair of pipes carry steam from the superheater to the cylinders. b. transitive. Originally: to convey (sound, sense impressions, etc.). In later use spec.: (of a wire, cable, nerve, conducting medium, etc.) to conduct (an electric current or signal, nerve impulse, sound wave, etc.). ΚΠ 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 500 Like as the voice of a man carried in a trunke, reed, or hollow thing. 1655 Physical Dict. in N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick sig. Nnnn^v Visive Nerve, the seeing Nerve. The Sinnew wherewith the Objects of sight are carried into the Brain, to the Imagination or Commonsence. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 172 This air strikes and affects the auditory nerves, which carry the sound to the brain. 1835 M. Faraday in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 125 48 The conducting power of the connecting system A B D was sufficient to carry all the primary current. 1882 G. W. Cox Little Cycl. Common Things 186/2 The air in the drum of the ear also helps to carry the sound-waves. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 394/2 The dendrites carry the sensory impulse to the nerve-cell. 1992 IEEE Spectrum Mar. 43/2 Those lines..carry bulk power from generating stations to substations. 2014 Guardian 31 July 26/4 Copper wires will carry the signal the rest of the way to the doorstep. 9. transitive. To extend or continue (esp. a built structure) in a given direction, or to a particular height, length, etc.See also to carry up 4 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [verb (transitive)] > lengthen elongc1420 protend?a1475 lengthen1555 extend1569 produce1570 prolong1574 elongate1578 carry1587 run1630 continue1667 to run outa1670 prolongate1671 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1543/2 They carried the crosse wall through the chanell (a thing verie strange and difficult) and so did they not the long wall. 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Lapis Calaminaris To prevent damps in their Work, they should carry Air-shafts with them, as in Lead-Mines. 1772 S. Denne & W. Shrubsole Hist. Rochester 28 Gundulph did not carry this tower to the height it now is. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 154 The defences were not carried down to the water. 1902 Proc. Oxf. Archit. & Hist. Soc. 6 4 To bridge the Cherwell and carry a road from north Oxford over Norham Manor. 1982 A. Lewis Amer. Country Houses of Gilded Age 97 Walker carried the wall too high and increased the impression of rawness by contrasting it with Medford granite. 1991 Pract. Householder Apr. 13/1 Using a carpenter's square and Stanley knife, carry the pencil line around all four sides of the piece of timber. 10. transitive. Of food, money, or other essentials: to be capable of providing for or sustaining (a person) until a particular place or point in time is reached; to last (a person). With prepositional phrase indicating the place or time. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > be sufficient for [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person > for a specified time lastc1175 carry1589 wear1815 to see over ——1875 1589 R. Lane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 746 That he would leaue vs so much shipping and victuall, as about August then next followyng, would cary me and all my companie into England. 1674 T. Hardcastle Christian Geogr. & Arithm. 72 To fret and perplex my self, how I should have provisions to carry me or my Family through the wilderness of this World. 1703 J. Burchett Mem. Trans. at Sea 359 They intended to take in Provisions, for which they were so much streightened, that they had not enough to carry them to the Havana. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 695 A scanty stock of silver, which..was to carry the nation through the summer. 1961 J. Carew Last Barbarian 56 I brought enough money to carry us through the day. 2017 Valdosta (Georgia) Daily Times (Nexis) 3 July Children can count on getting breakfast and lunch at the school, and many are given backpacks with food to carry them through the weekends. 11. a. transitive. Bookkeeping and Accounting. To transfer (an item) from one account, ledger, etc., to another, or from one part of an account to another (e.g. from the debit to the credit side). With to or into. Now rare.See also to carry back 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry forward at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures control1422 avouch1539 allocate1551 respond1588 score1592 carry1652 post1707 to carry forward1721 off-reckon1721 O. Ni.a1726 to carry over1745 rule1845 to write down1876 to close off188. qualify1884 accrue1915 net1947 gross1954 strip1980 1652 W. Bagwell & J. Brockedon Full Discov. Foul Concealment 14 The ballance due from the said Committee &c. to the Common-wealth by this Accompt the 25 of March 1644 carried to the credit side of the said Common-wealth in fol. 15. is—4873—2—0. 1694 in E. Hatton Merchant's Mag. (1697) x. sig. Bb Carried to Ledger, fol. 1.—1251 [li.] 8[s.] 5[d.]. 1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 2) I. Suppl. iii. 124 This carrying things from the Journal..to the Ledger..is call'd, posting. 1829 Age 25 Oct. 342/2 Among the items carried to the credit account of the last quarterly return of the revenue, was a sum of £120,121 received..for the purchase of the City Canal. 1907 S. H. Goodyear et al. Mod. Inductive Bookkeeping i. 44 The cash item is checked in the Sales Book when carried to the Cash Book. 2006 K. Gupta School Managem. xvii. 302 All entries made in the cash book are carried to the ledger in their respective accounts. b. transitive. To transfer (a number, digit, or remainder) from one column or place to the next in an arithmetical calculation, typically when a column of digits adds up to more than ten. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > transfer to next column refer1588 to have (also bear, keep, hold, etc.) in mind1612 carry1657 1657 W. Leybourn tr. J. de Billy Arithmetick, Vulgar, Decimal, & Instrumental i. 16 In the addition of drams to make a prick at every 16, setting down the remainder and for every prick carrying a unite to the next place. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. 29/2 Add each column separately, and carry the overplus as before, from one column to another. 1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 26 Nov. 544 You are to put down the 4 and carry 2. 1915 Internat. Steam Engineer 15 Mar. 173/1 Write down the 9 and carry the 10 to the next column. 2017 C. Cross Game Theory (new ed.) (e-book, accessed 2 Sept. 2020) xi You forgot to carry the one. †12. transitive. To shoot (an animal) down. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by shooting shootc893 shootc1275 to blow away1523 carry1653 to shoot (a person) down1845 stop1845 blow1871 ventilate1875 Maxim1894 poop1917 to blow apart1920 smoke1926 clip1927 cowboy1941 zap1942 Sten-gun1949 to light up1967 slot1987 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xlix. § i. 190 Having discovered this game [sc. wild boars], we got as near to them as we could, and discharging amongst them, we carried two of them to the ground. 13. a. transitive. Of a road, way, journey, etc.: to take or lead (a person) to or through a place. With prepositional phrase indicating the place or direction. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > journey [verb (transitive)] > (of a journey) take one somewhere carry1675 1675 J. Ogilby Britannia 45 You come to Brereton Hill..with a good Inn, whence a direct Road carrieth you to Rugeley. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 482 The next Days Journey carry'd us through other Parts of the Canton of Bern, to the little Town of Meldingen. 1870 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 742/1 A by-path carried me through fields into a public road. 1981 J. B. Grieder Intellectuals & State in Mod. China (1983) iv. 122 His wanderings carried him from Darjeeling to Denver; from Luxor to London to Lapland. 2003 J. R. Lennon Mailman i. iii. 164 One leg of the route carried him over the Zabriskie Bridge..and thus past Renault's house. †b. transitive. Of a mission or duty: to induce or compel (a person) to go to a place. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards or approach (a thing, place, or person) [verb (transitive)] > cause to come or go to lenda1200 carry1874 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §1. 213 A mission..carried him [sc. Chaucer] in early life to Italy. 1879 I. K. Goode Foot-prints of Life 34 That sense of duty carried her to the bedside of the Prince of Wales when..he was struck down..by the fell disease under which his father had sunk. 14. Esp. in Hunting. †a. intransitive. Of a hare: to pick up soil or other matter on the feet, with the result that the hounds lose the scent. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1677 [implied in: N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 97 There are other places wherein a Hound can find no Scent; and that is in..rotten ground, and it sticketh to the Foot of the Hare, which is called Carrying. (at carrying n. 1a)]. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 76/1 She carryeth, is when a Hare runneth on rotten ground, or in the Frost, sometimes it sticks to her feet. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) When an Hare runs on rotten Ground, or sometimes on Frost, and it sticks to her Feet, the Huntsmen say She carries. 1801 W. B. Daniel Rural Sports I. 268 It is common to hear it said, the Hare carries; but that is not all, for by what has been alleged, it is plain she is not so eagerly pursued by the scent of her Feet only. b. intransitive. Of soil: to stick to the feet, horses' hoofs, etc. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > be or become attached or affixed [verb (intransitive)] > remain attached > adhere > to the feet or hoofs carry1892 1892 Field 30 Jan. 155/2 The frost..caused the fallows and seeds to ‘carry’ a good deal, and they could only hunt very slowly. 1892 Field 30 Jan. 156/3 An expanse of ploughed soil which ‘carries’ considerably. 1930 C. Frederick et al. Foxhunting 339 Carry, to. When after a frost the ground is picked up by hounds' feet or foxes' pads. †15. transitive. To continue to experience (something, such as a view or particular conditions) as one travels along. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > accompany or attend [verb (transitive)] > have as an accompaniment carry1777 1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal iv. 35 We descended into a hollow way, which we carried with us to Aranjuez. 1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal ix. 83 We carried a mountainous country along with us, on the left hand. 1857 Jrnl. 27 Sept. in Mercantile Marine Mag. Jan. (1858) 9 I carried a steady Trade [wind], all sail set. 16. intransitive. Of sound, a smell, etc.: to be transmitted, esp. through the air, so as to be perceived at a distance. Cf. carrying adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > be or become audible [verb (intransitive)] > carry carry1875 1875 Examiner 1 May 500/1 There is not a trace of the amateur in Mrs. Fairfax's Lady Gryffyd, unless perhaps in an occasional failure to make her voice carry effectively through the house. 1895 Boy's Own Paper 6 July 632/1 In the night-time, along the cliffs, sound carries a long way. 1979 Pop. Sci. July 88/3 The heat didn't carry very far. 1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 25 Dec. 16 a Fires still burned in some parts of the downtown area, and the smell carried across the Bridge of the Americas leading into the city. 2002 S. L. Carter Emperor Ocean Park xv. 188 Voices carry, Talcott. Couldn't help overhearing the other night. You and your wife..had quite a set-to. Figurative and extended uses. 17.** transitive. To take or continue (a course). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > continue (an action) [verb (transitive)] i-haldOE to hold fortha1325 sustainc1325 containc1330 continuea1340 maintainc1385 carrya1393 keepc1425 to keep upa1535 to stick by ——1551 to hold on1568 to hold out1595 to carry on1609 subsist1633 to keep at ——1825 the world > action or operation > behaviour > follow (a course of behaviour) [verb (transitive)] > adopt a course gangOE carrya1393 adopta1616 the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > choose [verb (transitive)] > choose to do something > choose (a course, etc.) carrya1393 adopta1616 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 3292 Ne yit the Mone, that sche carie Hire cours along upon the hevene. 18. a. transitive. To transfer (an immaterial thing, such as a quality, practice, way of thinking, etc.) to or from a particular sphere of action or influence.In quot. c1443: to transfer (merit) to a person. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > specifically of immaterial things carryc1443 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 183 (MED) Þanne oon man..myȝte carie, translate, or applie þe valew and fruyt of his vertuose werk to an oþer man. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Iii But at his ende caryeng it out of this worlde with hym, he shal neuer dye. 1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 5 Aug. 1/1 If we carry our Thoughts from the Corporeal to the Moral World. 1876 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 1 Jan. Jefferson was no crazy abstractionist. He carried no Utopian dreams into politics. 1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors iii. 64 The surgeons..could not resist carrying with them into the obstetrical field their practice of blood-letting. 2017 New European 10 Feb. 26/2 New Labour squandered the good will it carried into office pretty sharpish. b. transitive. To cause (something) to be taken, passed, or transferred to a particular person, place, institution, etc.See also to carry the war into the enemy's camp at Phrases 10. ΚΠ 1571 E. Newcomen tr. Def. & True Declar. Thinges done in Lowe Countrey sig. H.i^v Platoe, and the other philosophers dyd wyth long & diuers trauellinges learne their wisedomes..& from straunge peoples and far nations carry the knowledge therof into Grece. 1607 E. Grimeston tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 778 France grew quiet, yet must they imploy the Souldiars, and carry the warre into the Spaniards country. 1715 J. Gardiner Pract. Expos. Latter Pt. Serm. on Mount vi. 128 Submitting to the Loss of our Cause, if it be given against us, without vexatiously carrying the Suit from Court to Court. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. xii. 243 Heritable rights may be carried from the debtor to the creditor, either by the diligence of apprysing, (now adjudication) or by a judicial sale carried on before the court of Session. 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 51 It does not appear, that this case was ever carried to the House of Lords. 1956 J. Barth Floating Opera (1988) x. 89 Everyone was a little afraid to carry the thing to court immediately. 1999 J. F. Watts & F. L. Israel Presidential Documents (2000) 70 This hostility grew to such proportions that the South Carolina legislature carried the issue to the voters. 19. †a. transitive (in passive). to be carried with: to be influenced by something, so as to behave in a foolish or uncharacteristic way. Cf. carried adj. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > extravagant or rapturous excitement > be affected by extravagant or rapturous excitement [verb (intransitive)] to be carried with1561 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. ix. §1 They are not caried with such giddinesse [tantâ vertigine raptari]. 1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. iv. 109 If their heads were not carried with the notice which the foolish people..took of them. b. transitive. Frequently in passive. Esp. of a strong emotion such as desire or longing: to move (a person, the soul) to a particular state or course of action; to influence the thoughts or feelings of (a person).Cf. to carry away 2 at Phrasal verbs.See also to be carried with at sense 19a. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] rineOE afaite?c1225 stir?c1225 movea1325 amovec1380 inspire1390 commove1393 informa1398 toucha1400 embracec1430 rore1481 alter1529 to carry away?1529 raise1533 removea1540 heavec1540 affect?1548 carry1570 inmove1583 infecta1586 worka1616 unthaw1699 emove1835 emotionize1855 emotion1875 the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate > drive, impel, or incite enforce1542 pulsec1550 carry1570 pusha1578 propel1830 drive1838 1570 Tressoun of Dumbartane in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 171 Crabit but cause, and caryit by thy sensis. 1574 St. Avstens Manuell in Certaine Prayers S. Augustines Medit. sig. qiij^v The soule..is caried with desirousnesse, drawen with longing. 1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 335 Subiect to flatterers, who carried him to their pleasure. 1608 P. Golding tr. J. Sleidane Epit. Frossard iii. 152 The king..was altogether carryed by this man, in such sorte as he both neglected and hated his vnckles in respect of him. 1879 E. Moore tr. K. R. Hagenbach Hist. Reformation Germany & Switzerland II. xxi. 97 It is saddening to observe the lengths to which Luther suffered himself to be carried by passion. 1996 E. Lovelace Salt xii. 242 The music was carrying him. It was taking him over. He was going deep down inside it. 20. transitive. Chiefly with through. To enable (a person) to withstand or overcome a difficult situation or task; to give (a person) the means to cope with something.Cf. to carry through 2 at Phrasal verbs. ΚΠ 1569 T. Norton To Queenes Deceiued Subj. sig. F.iv Alas, what be these [men] to carry you through the serious and earnest dangerous enterprise that you haue in hand. 1662 Bk. Common Prayer Collect 4th Sunday after Epiphany Such strength and protection as shall..carry us through all temptations. 1741 Bp. J. Butler Serm. before House of Lords 16 The Love of Liberty..carries us to withstand Tyranny. ?1751 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) i. 3 I will recommend to Mr. Leech to carry you quite through Virgil's Æneid. 1923 Life 1 Mar. 18/1 Cyril Keightley goes back to his sensible but one-dimensional wife..without even the memory of a good, normal affair to carry him through the long winter evenings. 2020 J. Hazeley & N. Tatarowicz Instr. for Brit. People during Emergency 8 The ability to laugh in the face of adversity has carried them through many a trouble. †21. a. transitive. To conduct or manage (an incident, situation, event, etc.). Obsolete (archaic in later use). ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer steerc888 leadc1175 guyc1330 guidec1374 governa1382 ministera1382 treat1387 administer1395 dispose1398 skift?a1400 warda1400 solicit1429 to deal with1469 handlea1470 execute1483 convoy?a1513 conveyc1515 mayne1520 to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handa1522 keepa1535 administrate1538 solicitate1547 to dispose of1573 manure1583 carry1600 manage1609 negotiate1619 conduct1632 to carry on1638 mesnage1654 nurse1745 work1841 operate1850 run1857 stage-manage1906 ramrod1920 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 212 This well caried, shall..Change slaunder to remorse. View more context for this quotation 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 79 When Discords, and Quarrells..are carried openly. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 451 The elections were carried with great heat. 1846 R. Browning Soul's Trag. in Bells & Pomegranates No. VIII ii So will you carry matters, that the rest of the world must at length unite and put down such a den of wild beasts. b. transitive. With it. To act or behave in a particular way. With adverb or adverbial phrase indicating the manner in which a person acts. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)] > manage or administrate administrate1567 lead1579 manage1603 carrya1616 conduct1677 to fix it1836 a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 135 We may carry it thus for our pleasure. View more context for this quotation 1639 J. Shirley Maides Revenge iii. sig. E3 She will carry it so, that Valasco shall bee suspected. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 306 Sir Jacob carried it mighty stiff and formal. 1844 T. B. Macaulay Barère in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 337 The informer has sometimes been directed to carry it fair towards his accomplices, and to let the evil design come to full maturity. 22. transitive. To develop, pursue, or extend (a quality, practice, concept, or other immaterial thing) to a particular point or stage. Frequently in to carry (something) to extremes (also to excess, too far, etc.) and variants: to be immoderate or excessive in one's actions, behaviour, opinions, etc.; to take (something) to an extreme point. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > advance (a proceeding) from previous stage [verb (transitive)] > carry to a farther or spec. limit go1577 carrya1631 push1676 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > do (something) to excess [verb (transitive)] overdoOE to carry (something) to extremes (also to excess, too far, etc.)a1631 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > occur to [verb (transitive)] > extend carrya1631 a1631 J. Donne LXXX Serm. (1640) liv. 535 It is a godly thing to fast uncommanded, but to neglect it being commanded, is an ungodly..perversnesse, sayes the same Father. But then another carries it to a higher expression, Desperationis genus est, tunc manducare, cum abstinere debeas. 1674 T. Tanner Call to Shulamite 13 It is not at all to the prejudice of the Church, but may be rather to her benefit, that certain points be not carried..in extremes. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 119. ¶5 This kind of Good Manners was perhaps carried to an Excess. 1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) v. 67 The highest, and most generous Notions of Friendship. How high does Cicero carry it in his first Book of Laws. 1871 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 239 Mr. Carlyle has another way. He carries the process a step further. 1896 Monist 6 462 Nietzsche carries his propositions to such extremes that..they become in the end ridiculous. a1927 D. Hammett Dead on Pine St. in Nightmare Town (1999) 211 After a time it stopped being funny. You carried it too far. 1998 T. A. J. McGinn Prostitution, Sexuality, & Law in Anc. Rome ix. 329 It was, of course, a different matter for a gentleman of rank to set foot in a brothel. Such behavior was tolerated of young men, provided the freedom was not carried to excess. †***** To travel energetically. 23.** intransitive. To go or travel vigorously or speedily; to proceed rapidly. Chiefly with adverb or prepositional phrase indicating direction. Obsolete.See also to carry about 1 at Phrasal verbs, to carry forth at Phrasal verbs. [Probably influenced by association with cair v. (a borrowing from early Scandinavian).] ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)] lakeOE flyOE runOE scour13.. jace1393 hie1398 spina1400 fleetc1400 glentc1400 stripc1400 suea1450 carryc1450 speed1488 scud1532 streek1598 winga1616 to clip it1616 hackney1617 swifta1618 whirryc1630 dust1673 whew1684 race1702 stroke1735 cut1797 spank1807 skid1815 speela1818 crack1824 skimmer1824 slap1827 clip1832 skeet1838 marvel1841 lick1850 travel1850 rush1852 zip1852 sail1876 rabbit1887 move1906 high-tail1908 to ball the jack1914 buzz1914 shift1922 giddap1938 burn1942 hoosh1943 bomb1966 shred1977 c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) l. 554 (MED) Thenne raughte I fro religion..And caried to closes and cathedralle churches. c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. l. 302 Whanne realles remeveth and ridith þoru tounes, And carieth ouere contre. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. iv. 100 In haist Hercules com at hand Wyth furius mynd careing ouyr the land. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. xi. 136 Lat ws follow that way, and thiddir cary. 1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 638 in Wks. (1931) II. 60 Als fast as ȝe may cary [1602 carie], Speid ȝow with diligence. ****** To take by force or effort.See also expressions related to this sense at Phrases 3. 24.** a. transitive. To take (something) away, esp. by force or effort. Also in extended use: to succeed in obtaining (something). In later use chiefly (now only) in to carry the victory: to win a victory; to be victorious.See also to carry the day at day n. 13, and to carry off 4 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > win (any contest or prize) > win (a prize, etc.) to bear awayc1325 getc1330 winc1330 to go away with1489 to carry away1565 carry1570 to bear off?1615 to carry off1680 to take out1976 1570 Tressoun of Dumbartane in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 173 Gone is thair game,..Thair cattell caryit, thair Granges set in fyre. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Enchere,..any Portsale, Outrope, or bargaining, wherein he that bids most for a thing is to carrie it. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xxvii. 152 He had carried the Consulship for a Frend of his. a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 379 Consider..what the Issue may be, if the Tempter should carry thy Choice. 1735 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. V. 57 He had carried the prize of the horse-race in the Olympick games. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlii. 48 He strove to carry with his own hand the victory. 2015 Afr. News (Nexis) 25 Feb. The Amsterdam boys carried the victory after scoring a brilliant goal to snatch the vital three points. †b. transitive. With it. To prevail; to gain the advantage; to be superior in order or importance. Obsolete.See also to carry it away at to carry away 3c at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win win1297 obtain1441 to go away with it1489 triumph1508 to carry (also get, lose, win, etc.) the day1557 to bear it1602 carry1602 to carry away the bucklers1608 to carry one's point1654 to carry it off1828 to ring the bell1900 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. ii. 63 He wil cary it, he wil carit, Tis in his betmes he wil carite. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xviii. 351 Revelation must carry it, against the probable Conjectures of Reason. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Raffling The Raffle is properly the double or triplet. A Raffle of Aces, or Duces, carries it against meer Points. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 181 Though I have described the towns of Magindano and Selangan as making one, the name Selangan carries it generally over the other. 1870 E. M. Goulburn Cathedral Syst. i. 7 Man's good is indeed most closely interwoven with God's glory; but where the two come into collision, the second must carry it over the first. 25. a. transitive. To take or capture (a town, position, ship, etc.) by military assault; to seize; to win by conquest. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > capture or acquire by conquest i-wina1000 wina1122 fang?c1200 catchc1275 conquer1297 geta1400 stealc1400 conquer1475 conquest1485 conques1488 evict1560 carry1579 intake1646 constrain1700 capture1796 society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > take by storm sturmec1275 expugn?a1475 expugnate1568 carry1579 enforce1579 to take by storm1687 rush1863 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 37 Being out of hope to carie the towne by assault, they retyred to the porte of Lyuorne. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 110 The Towne would haue beene carried in the end. 1720 J. Burchett Compl. Hist. Trans. at Sea iii. xix. 384 Lawson..pressed so hard upon De Ruyter, that he had like to have carried him. 1797 J. Jervis in A. Duncan Life Nelson (1806) 46 The rear-admiral..with the assistance of some other barges, boarded and carried two of the enemy's gun-boats. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. i. 24 Heavy guns were brought up..and preparations were made to carry the fort by storm. 1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. x. 181 Howe directed eight regiments..to carry this position. 2009 L. E. Babits & J. B. Howard Long, Obstinate, & Bloody Introd. 1 Two years later the British returned. A surprise attack on Savannah in late December 1778 carried the town in less than an hour. †b. transitive. figurative and in extended use: to win over (a person, the understanding, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)] > succeed in influencing prevaila1400 to prevail withc1450 carrya1616 to prevail upon1656 a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vii. 19 The Count..Layes downe his wanton siedge before her beautie, Resolue to carrie her. 1622 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer Pref. To court the affections and..by their help, to carry the understanding. a1635 R. Sibbes Learned Comm. 2 Cor. i. (1655) 415 How are we in Christ? By knowing him; and then knowledge carries our hearts. 1863 C. H. Spurgeon Metrop. Tabernacle Pulpit VIII. 291 Do you not remember that glorious hour when he carried our hearts by storm..planting on our strongholds the blood-red flag of his atoning mercy? 1884 C. Reade Perilous Secret I. xiii. 263 He..always kept his temper and carried everybody, especially the chaplain. 26. a. transitive. To gain support or approval for (a matter, issue, etc.), esp. in the face of opposition from others; to achieve a favourable result for (a person or thing). Now chiefly in to carry an election: to win an election. Also in †to carry one's candidate: to achieve victory for one's candidate.See also to carry one's point at Phrases 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > be successful with against opposition carrya1620 society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [verb (transitive)] > gain control of in an election to carry an electiona1620 carry1848 sweep1892 a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. i. §5. 7 Arguments..sufficient to carry the matter. 1636 J. Davenport Apologeticall Reply 45 The choyse of officers in Corporations is done by common vote, the major part of voyces carrying the election. 1723 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 9 The magistrates, council, and several of the elders..have carried a call for Mr. John Hepburn..to a vacancy there. 1742 J. Ralph Other Side of Question 246 They carried the Court-Candidate for the Chair, by upwards of sixty. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 125 The government had been unable to carry its measures. 1997 Philadelphia Daily News (Nexis) 5 Nov. (Local section) 5 Saidel's campaign manager..said he was proud that his candidate was carried by Democrats everywhere. 2005 J. W. Loewen Sundown Towns vii. 186 One individual cannot carry the issue without at least some support from a larger public. 2012 D. H. Fischer Fairness & Freedom 156 He carried the election by sixteen votes. b. transitive (chiefly in passive). To gain approval for (a resolution, bill, motion, etc.) in a meeting or assembly, by obtaining a majority of the votes; to succeed in getting (a resolution, etc.) passed or adopted. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [verb (transitive)] > pass motion or bill carry1640 snap1883 to nod through1976 1640 Order & Manner of Sitting (single sheet) They divide the House, the Speaker saying, As [many as]..doe allow the Bill, goe downe with the Bill, and as many as doe not, sit still: Thus..the most voyces carries it. 1666 A. Marvell Let. 3 Dec. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 47 Upon division of the House..'twas caryed for the Provisos being committed. 1782 London Mag. Sept. 441/1 The premier, by means of Mr. Pitt, Lord Grantham, and Mr. Townshend, carried the vote. 1875 Votes & Proc. Legislative Assembly New S. Wales IV. 292 Do you recollect whether the motion was carried unanimously? 1982 Convent. Proc. Internat. Assoc. Industr. Accident Boards & Comm. 165 It has been duly moved and seconded that the 7th Resolution by Glenn Adams be adopted...All those in favour signify in the usual manner. All those against? Carried. 2010 Irish News (Nexis) 28 June 24 The amendment was carried on a vote. c. transitive. North American. To win or gain (a state, a district, etc.) in an election. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [verb (transitive)] > gain control of in an election to carry an electiona1620 carry1848 sweep1892 1848 J. R. Lowell in Anti-slavery Standard 28 Sept. 70/6 I thought our ticket would ha' caird the country with a resh. 1905 D. G. Phillips Plum Tree ix. 123 We, our party, carried the state, as usual. Our legislative majority was increased by eleven. 1965 T. C. Sorensen Kennedy viii. 212 I told him [sc. J. F. Kennedy]—mistakenly as it turned out—that he had carried California. 2014 C. S. Bullock in S. E. Buchanan & B. D. Kapeluck Second Verse, Same as First iv. 60 Obama carried six of the state's largest counties—those with at least 100,000 registrants. II. To support or sustain and related uses. * To have or hold while moving along or around. 27. a. (a) transitive. To have or keep (something) with one when moving from place to place, going about one's work, duties, etc.; to bear, wear, or hold (something), either habitually or on a particular occasion. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > while moving > habitually bearOE carryc1400 c1400 (c1382) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 266 It is not liklyche þat Crist, þat dide alle his dedis bi resoun, schulde carie a swerd in a scaberge. 1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries ii. f. 68 Below the Scaffolde was the knight Marshall carrying a red wande in his hande. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 149 Deacons, for a difference from the Priests, carried a round wreath of white cloth. 1720 J. Burchett Compl. Hist. Trans. at Sea iii. xix. 398 The victorious Fleet..under the Command of the Earl of Sandwich, who carried the Standard. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 97 If you carry a Nutmeg in your Pocket, you'll certainly be marry'd to an old Man. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 46 We do not know whether they are to carry arms. 1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Y i. ii. 50 He was dressed in a cool linen shirt, a leghorn hat, white shoes, and he carried a rattan stick. 2003 N.Y. Mag. 4 Aug. 15/1 He campaigned against violence, but he carried a gun...And he made sure everybody knew about it. (b) intransitive. To have a gun (or sometimes knife) on one's person. ΚΠ 1956 E. Hunter Jungle Kids 102 They all talked it up, figuring who was gonna be the first to die, in case Django was carrying. 1994 Malahat Rev. Spring 28 ‘Could be carrying,’ Siren says...Davis thinks about this. ‘Wouldn't he have shot us by now if he was carrying?’ 1998 K. Sampson Awaydays 6 I keep telling him to retract the blade when he's carrying—it causes havoc with the lining of your jacket. 2004 E. Conlon Blue Blood xiii. 494 Tell me for real—you got a gun at home? Who does? You know who's carrying? Let's help each other out. b. transitive. To bear (something) inside one's body, or part of one's body. Also: to contain (something).See also to drink more than one can carry at Phrases 6. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > containing or having within > contain or have within [verb (transitive)] holdc1000 takec1175 keep1340 harbour1362 containa1382 comprehend1393 comprise1483 carry1517 house1542 refrain1542 to fetch in1565 enharbour1596 inhold1614 reserve1614 1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xvi. 60 My sadde body my heuy hert dyde cary. 1650 R. Heath Clarastella 57 You that carried Summer in your lips..That in the Apples of your cheeks did wear A fertile Autumn now no fruit can bear? 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. ii. vi. 56 Many..of our European venemous Animals carry their Cure..in their own Bodies. 1880 Daily Tel. 3 Dec. Valuable carbonates of lead, which carry silver. 1944 G. Heyer Friday's Child (1960) xv. 180 Good God, don't I carry a broken heart in my breast? 2010 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 9 Aug. a8 The common ragwort plant..carries a deadly poison and can spell death to grazing animals. c. transitive. Of a woman or other female mammal: to be pregnant with (offspring). Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > carry in womb [verb (transitive)] bearOE breedc1000 enfaunt1483 carry1561 enwomba1616 expect1800 gestate1866 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Ff.iiii^v A wanton lief in women is lesse to be borne withall then in men, that carie not their children nine monthes in their bodye. 1651 P. Armin tr. F. Glisson et al. Treat. Rickets xix. 210 Weak & unsound women likewise..do conceive, carry their children nine months, and bring them forth in a decent and laudable manner. 1774 Ld. Kames Sketches Hist. Man I. i. vi. 224 Wolves and foxes copulate in December: the female carries five months, and brings forth in April. 1776 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1831) III. 458 Mrs. Thrale is big, and fancies that she carries a boy. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 361 The mother supposed to be now carrying a third child. 1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xxvii. 251 It's just my day of the month and even when you're carrying you sometimes feel it bad. 2008 R. Beard Becoming Drusilla (2009) xiv. 299 Femaleness is neither defined by sexual orientation, nor the ability to carry a child, nor a liking for salads and cats. d. transitive. To be an infected carrier of (an agent or disease), esp. without displaying symptoms (cf. carrier n.¹ 11a). Also: to be a carrier of (a specific gene or inherited trait) (cf. carrier n.¹ 11b). ΚΠ 1894 Med. Rec. 29 Sept. 396/1 Healthy children who were carrying the bacilli in their throats. 1911 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 6 May 875/2 It would seem that the patient had carried typhoid bacilli in her gallbladder for eight years. 1972 Science 13 Oct. 141/3 At least one airline stewardess was grounded after her company found she carried sickle cell trait. 1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 244 Would you selectively abort if you knew your unborn carried the gene for some to-come disease? 2020 J. Hazeley & N. Tatarowicz Instr. for Brit. People during Emergency 19 While it may appear safe to go out and fly a kite in an empty field, one has to bear in mind that the conditions for being able to do so will allow any airborne diseases you are carrying to be transmitted up to a thousand miles from your mouth or nose. 28. a. transitive. To support the weight of (a person or thing) while walking or moving along; to bear.The sense of lifting and sustaining is prominent; cf. sense 3a(a) where the emphasis is on transporting a person or thing.See also as fast as one's legs can carry one at Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] carry1570 to carry along1582 take1738 the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > while moving through-bear1554 carry1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 104/1 The myracles of the foresayd Helenus..howe he caried burnyng coales in hys lap. 1642 N. Bernard Whole Proc. Siege Drogheda 35 A woman..carrying a paile of water upon her head. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. vii. 51 I thank Heaven my Legs are very able to carry me. 1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 6 Warriors carry the warrior's pall. 1958 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Sept. 712/1 A common complaint of these patients is inability to carry a heavy package on the affected side. 2010 D. P. Nolan Loss Prevention & Safety Control (2011) 281 Individuals also place themselves at risk if they lift and carry materials improperly, risking back injuries. b. intransitive. To transport a canoe, boat, etc., over a portage, esp. by lifting it onto the shoulders or back. ΚΠ 1755 L. Evans Geogr. Ess. 17 The Canoe Men are often obliged to carry over Land. 2001 R. Wiebe Sweeter than all World 58 A journey here to Lastfire Lake for fall caribou once required three or four weeks,..fifty-seven portages on tumplines, even the little children carrying. c. transitive. Sport. To move while in possession of (the ball, puck, etc.); esp. to advance (the ball, puck, etc.) towards the opponent's goal or goal line; (American Football and Canadian Football) to run with (the football), esp. on a running play (running play n.); cf. rush v.² 11a. Also intransitive.For figurative uses of the phrase, see to carry the ball at ball n.¹ Phrases 1l. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [verb (transitive)] > play ball in specific way tossc1530 send1782 place1819 dowf1825 loft1857 belt1870 screw1881 smash1882 English1884 carry1889 slice1890 mishit1903 balloon1904 rainbow1906 rifle1914 tuck1958 stroke1960 1889 St. Nicholas Dec. 172/2 He realizes that twice have his ten men carried the ball for him up to the very door of victory, only to see him close that door in their faces. 1910 Western Intercollegiate Mag. Dec. 28 Every one except the center has been used in carrying the ball or running interference for the backs. 1956 Southwest Times (Pulaski, Va.) 23 Sept. 2/4 Bakhtiar..carried 27 times today for a 7.7 yard average. 1964 F. Mahovlich Ice Hockey vii. 44 Should the centre be carrying the puck, his left or right wingman should cut sharply into the goalmouth area. 2019 P. Caputo Hunter's Moon 11 I carried the ball on short-yardage plays; otherwise, I was a blocking back, assigned to shield our star from some slab of blitzing beef who'd penetrated the line. d. transitive. Basketball (originally U.S.). To allow (the ball) to rest in one or both hands while dribbling, in violation of the rules. ΚΠ 1909 North Adams (Mass.) Transcript 1 Feb. 2/1 Immediately after that another foul was called for carrying the ball and this time Dinn made the goal. 2019 Waterloo (Ont.) Region Record (Nexis) 23 Apr. c1 Titans guard Ed Horton was called for carrying the ball on the subsequent possession. 29. transitive. To have or keep (something) in the mind or thoughts; to bear in mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > think or have in mind [verb (transitive)] holdOE thinkOE makea1400 carry1583 entertain1583 lodge1583 conceit?1589 reflect1611 braina1616 the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > retain in the memory [verb (transitive)] i-mune971 to have (also bear, keep, hold, etc.) in minda1200 withholdc1200 membera1382 treasure1382 demeanc1460 mindc1460 retain1474 keep1574 to take (a thing) with one1577 carry1583 weara1586 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. vii. 355 O let vs carrie some greater care to obserue his will. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 107 I carried once a purpose, to build a little woodden banqueting house. 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §91. 105 We ought to carry that Distinction in our Thoughts. 1878 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 1st Ser. 195 To carry ever with us the unmarked, yet living tradition. 1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 17 Aug. (Sports section) 61 Groves and six of his teammates were starters on that team and remember the feeling of humiliation. They will carry those thoughts with them into this season. 2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Apr. 89/3 I am sure I carry much goyische opinion with me. 30. transitive. Of a particle, atom, ion, etc.: to bear or possess (an electric charge or comparable property). ΚΠ 1873 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism I. 261 When P moves away from the earth-spring it carries this charge with it. 1930 J. H. Jeans Universe around Us (ed. 2) ii. 119 Each proton carries a positive charge of electricity. 1981 D. Wilkinson in J. H. Mulvey Nature of Matter i. 26 The gluons that flit between the coloured quarks must also carry colour. 2005 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) July 32/3 All fields have a property called spin, an intrinsic quantity of angular momentum that is carried by each of their particles. To support, or be capable of sustaining or supporting. 31.** a. transitive. To bear the weight of or support (something); to provide physical support for (something which would otherwise fall, collapse, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] to bear upeOE underbearc950 bearOE holdc1000 weighc1200 to hold up1297 upholda1300 sustainc1330 undersetc1330 comforta1382 underbear1382 upbear1390 sustaina1398 upkeepc1412 carrya1425 supporta1425 chargea1500 convey1514 avoke1529 confirm1542 stay1548 to carry up1570 bolster1581 lift1590 upstay1590 atlas1593 sustent1605 statuminatea1628 firm1646 appui1656 establish1664 shoulder1674 to keep up1681 upheave1729 withhold1769 a1425 (a1396) R. Maidstone Paraphr. Seven Penitential Psalms (BL Add. 39574) l. 604 in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 44 Vpon þe tre my neest was narowe, There-on myȝte I no briddis carye. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §530 To make Ground-Herbes rise in Heighth: As for example; Carry Camomill, or Wilde-Thyme..vpon Sticks, as you doe Hops vpon Poles. 1774 W. Gostling Walk Canterbury xxxi. 136 The stretchers are very substantial and deep walls of stone pierced in such patterns as make them..an ornament: They are carried on arches from this pillar to two other principal ones. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. i. 30 The palace has seventeen main arches..carried by thirty-six pillars. 1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 59 The thick skin which carries the hair. 2001 Flying May 66/3 For every pound increase in weight the structure must be able to carry an additional 2.8 pounds without permanent deformation. b. transitive. Of a plant: to bear (seeds, leaves, fruit, etc.), esp. in a particular manner. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > grow, sprout, or bear fruit [verb (transitive)] > bring forth, produce, or bear bearOE makea1325 showc1330 yielda1400 producea1513 carry1577 hatch1592 throw1738 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 59 There is an other kinde of Rape that they vse to sowe, whiche carryeth his seede in little coddes, and is cheefely planted in Germanie for to make Oyle. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §425 They will put forth many, and so carry more Shoots vpon a Stemme. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 2 This Plant..carries its Seed in little Bunches or Clusters on its Top. 1828 H. Steuart Planter's Guide 368 The Trees of the present year..all carried a healthy leaf. 1912 J. F. Moody Compl. Work Pruning Fruit Trees 67 Many of these varieties [of pear] can be made to carry their fruit on the laterals. 2012 Guardian 17 Sept. 9/3 In the Goose Orchard, where cider apple varieties such as yarlington mill..usually thrive, many trees are bare or carrying just a few miserable fruit. c. transitive. Stock Market (originally U.S.). To hold, rather than sell, (stock, securities, etc.); (also) to bear the cost or risk of holding stock for (a customer). ΚΠ 1848 W. Armstrong Stocks & Stock-jobbing Wall-St. 10 It is nominally considered that the stock is meanwhile ‘carried’ or possessed by the seller. 1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 77 When a broker agrees to ‘carry’ stock, he says, Seven per cent, unless the market tightens. 1898 Times 7 Oct. 3/4 One telegram..said:—‘If you buy and carry 1,000 Met. [sc. orders for the stock of the Metropolitan Railroad of New York] for me, I will shake the plum tree.’ 1917 A. W. Atwood Exchanges & Speculation 51 In common parlance the customer trades on a ‘margin’. Expressed in another way the broker ‘carries’ the customer for all except a small part of the cost. 1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power ii. 27 Practically anyone who knew a broker by name could buy stock on ten percent margin... And on Wall Street brokers would simply ‘carry’ a favored customer. The buyer made no down payment at all. 2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 Dec. b14 (advt.) Until a stock goes public or becomes a cashable entity, we can carry it on our books and have it work for us. d. transitive. Esp. of a shop or other business: to hold or keep a certain amount of (goods, stock, etc.); to keep (a particular product) in stock. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > have for sale or sell habitually sellc1000 keep1706 carry1866 stock1884 1866 Daily Clarion (Jackson, Mississippi) 1 Apr. Carrying at all times a mammoth stock of every conceivable kind and character of goods belonging to his line..he makes it to the pecuniary advantage of every druggist to purchase their supplies at his house. 1879 Industries Pittsburgh; Trade, Commerce & Manufactures 163 He is now proprietor of the fine and well stocked shoe store at the corner of Penn ave. and 33d st., in which he carries a very complete and choice stock of Boots and Shoes. 1917 H. B. Twyford Purchasing & Storing 325 It is not economical to carry in stock several variations of articles of a similar nature. 1963 J. Mitford Amer. Way of Death 233 Casket and Sunnyside is carried in only six eastern libraries. 2013 Straits Times (Singapore) 23 Aug. (Urban section) 7/1 The Singapore-based online store officially opened yesterday and carries second-hand designer accessories and apparel. e. transitive. Originally U.S. To provide financial or other support for (a person, organization, etc.); to be responsible for the success of (a person or thing). Also: to bear the burden of or support (a person who or thing which is not up to the required standard). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [verb (transitive)] > support one not contributing effort carry1879 1879 Bradstreet's 8 Oct. 4/4 He is forced to pay on loans necessary to ‘carry’ the farmer. 1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 877/2 The men of business..have for years carried the New York Academy of Music. 1934 H. L. Beales & R. S. Lambert Mem. Unemployed 108 He was an oldish man and couldn't stand his turn, but as we worked in gangs the rest of us carried him. 1936 Daily Mail 6 Jan. 18/2 The drama..is sombre and somewhat out of date, but the acting of the star carries the film. 2009 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Black Country ed.) (Sport section) 86 None of the teams with any designs on trying to be successful can afford to carry players. 32. transitive. Nautical. Of a vessel or crew: to sail with (a certain amount of sail, or a particular disposition of sails).See also to carry sail at sail n.¹ 2a. ΚΠ 1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya ii. 35 The winde blewe muche at Northeast, so that we coulde beare but onely a bunt of our foresayle, and the Barkes not being able to carrie any sayle at all. 1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. iii, Loom-Gale, is a gentle easie Gale of Wind, in which a Ship can carry her Top-sails. a1827 W. Hickey Mem. (1960) xiii. 207 It blew so hard we could scarcely carry a close-reefed mainsail and storm-jib. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. x. 290 I fear, sir, we cannot carry the main-sail much longer. 1986 T. Enright tr. T. O'Crohan Island Cross-talk 156 A heavy sea was running and the currach could not carry her sail. 2000 C. D. Whiteman Mountain Meteorol. v. 66 Beaufort's original wind speed scale was based on the amount of canvas that a full-rigged frigate could carry. 33. transitive. To bear or endure (something difficult or distressing). rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] thave835 i-dreeeOE tholec897 abeareOE underbearc950 adreeOE dreeOE driveOE i-tholeOE throwOE underfoc1000 bearOE bidec1200 suffera1250 abidec1275 drinka1340 endure1340 underfong1382 receivec1384 abyea1393 sustain1398 finda1400 undergoa1400 get?c1430 underganga1470 ponder?a1525 a dog's lifea1528 tolerate1531 to stand to ——1540 to feel the weight of?1553 enjoy1577 carry1583 abrook1594 to stand under ——a1616 to fall a victim to1764 the mind > emotion > suffering > suffer mental pain [verb (transitive)] thave835 i-dreeeOE tholec897 underbearc950 adreeOE dreeOE driveOE i-tholeOE throwOE underfoc1000 bearOE takec1175 bidec1200 suffera1250 leadc1330 drinka1340 endure1340 wielda1375 underfong1382 receivec1384 sustain1398 finda1400 undergoa1400 underganga1470 ponder?a1525 tolerate1531 to go through ——1535 to feel the weight of?1553 enjoy1577 carry1583 abrook1594 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. ix. 485 He is a slaue to the thing that he gapeth for, and to make vp his mouth he will carie any thing. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 48 Mans nature cannot cary The affliction, nor the force. View more context for this quotation 1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. iii. 192 Queen Anne did not carry her death so decently. 1995 J. Durso in W. McDonald N.Y. Times Bk. of Dead (e-book ed.) Mantle..carried his afflictions with grace and humor. 34. a. transitive. To bear or produce (a crop); to be capable of sustaining (a particular crop). Also: to support, or be capable of supporting (livestock). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [verb (transitive)] > bear or sustain crop carry1605 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > provide pasture [verb (transitive)] > support cattle carry1605 1605 R. Dallington Suruey Great Dukes State Tuscany 36 The same ground which hath carried this crop..is againe presently tilled, and sowed with Miglio, Panico, Sagina, or some pulse or other. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 166 The foot of every brook in the Highlands..carries amazing crops of lint. 1802 J. Somerville Let. 12 Nov. in Facts & Observ. Sheep (1803) 10 The same land, which carried forty-five breeding ewes, was immediately stocked with 150 Ryelands in their stead. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xvi. 275 The cold central plain did not carry the olive. 1931 A. D. Hall Soil (ed. 4) vii. 232 A first sowing of lucerne on land that had never carried the crop before gave weakly, unnodulated plants. 2000 Leyland's Austral. Winter 33/1 The property..carries 3,000 Brahman cattle. b. transitive. To support or contain (a particular size of population). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > population > [verb (transitive)] > carry population carry1854 1854 Daily News 14 Dec. 3/2 A territory of 76,500 square miles, carrying a population of five million souls. 1905 19th Cent. Nov. 816 Mackay, with back country carrying about 15,000 people. 2013 D. Nakassis in J. Englehardt Agency in Anc. Writing x. 236 The palatial site of Pylos..the center of a polity of ca. 2,000 square kilometers carrying a population of approximately 50,000 individuals. †35. transitive. Cards. To retain rather than discard (a card of a particular suit or value). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play a card [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics to hold up?1499 decardc1555 to turn up1580 discard1591 pulla1625 to sit out1659 face1674 to make out1680 to lay out1687 to throw away1707 lead1739 weaken1742 carry1744 to take in1744 force1746 to show down1768 throw1866 blank1884 block1884 cover1885 unblock1885 pitch1890 1744 E. Hoyle Short Treat. Game Piquet ii. 20 Which of these Suits are you to carry? 1820 Hoyle's Games Improved (new ed.) 121 Suppose elder-hand, that you have the ace, queen, seven, eight, and ten of clubs, also the ace, knave, seven, eight, and ten of diamonds, carry the ace, knave, seven, eight, and ten of diamonds. 1876 C. H. Wall tr. Molière Bores ii. ii, in tr. Molière Dramatic Wks. I. 294 I carry the ace of clubs, the ace, king, knave, ten and eight of hearts, and throw out, as my game lay in point, king and queen of diamonds, ten and queen of spades. 36. transitive. To support (a supposition, inference, analogous case, etc.); to give validity to. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > support, corroborate fasteneOE i-sothea925 sustainc1325 witness1362 approvec1380 confirmc1384 affirma1393 justifya1393 to bear outa1475 corrobore1485 uphold1485 nourisha1522 underpinc1522 to countenance outa1529 favoura1530 soothe1544 strengthen1548 comfort1593 second1596 accredit1598 evidencea1601 warrantise1600 compact1608 back1612 thickena1616 accreditate1654 shoulder1674 support1691 corroborate1706 carry1835 to give (also lend) colour1921 1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism vii. 298 The end being of infinite moment carries all means and makes all lawful. 1885 G. Denman in Law Times Rep. 53 785/1 It is impossible to say that any one case is so in point as to carry this case. 2001 L. E. Sandelands Male & Female in Social Life 34 We have evidence enough to carry the supposition that the human group is a unity over and above the persons it includes. 37. transitive. Music. To produce (a note, tune, etc.) accurately; to sing (something) in tune. Frequently in negative constructions with to carry a tune, as in he can't carry a tune. ΚΠ 1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm ii. 26 She ‘carried’ the alto by ear. 1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) Introd. p. viii A musical mind is adept in carrying the key of C without assistance of instrument or pitch pipe. 1997 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 17 Jan. (Weekend section) 3 Drew Barrymore lip-syncs to somebody else's vocalizations—apparently the actress can't carry a melody to save her life. 2009 Hana Hou! (Hawaiian Airlines) 88/1 Jenkins was a wealthy dowager who thought she was a great soprano—but who couldn't, in fact, carry a tune. 38. transitive. Originally U.S. Of a newspaper, magazine, etc.: to print or publish (an article or other material). Also of broadcast media: to transmit; to broadcast. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > appearance in the press > carry an article [verb (transitive)] carry1906 society > communication > broadcasting > [verb (transitive)] > of a station carry1906 1906 Weekly Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 18 Apr. 7/1 No magazine carrying an article headed ‘The Treason of the Senate’ should be allowed in an American home. 1925 Brainerd (Minnesota) Daily Dispatch 15 Jan. 7/1 Kinograms film company placed the day's events in its news movies... The radio carried the story too. 1929 E. Wallace Kennedy the Con Man iv, in Red Aces 178 We carry big ads. in all the papers. 2004 T. Wheeler Falklands & S. Georgia 173/1 The Falklands Islands Broadcasting Station (FIBS) produces local programming and also carries news from the BBC. ***** To move or behave in a particular manner. 39.** a. transitive. To hold or move (the body, head, etc.), esp. in a particular way. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial phrase indicating the manner in which the body, head, etc., is held. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > place into or assume a posture [verb (transitive)] > hold a posture holda1387 carry?1561 ?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding ii. sig. Iviii See that youre horse..carrye his heade, necke, legges, and whole body orderlye. 1723 S. Morland Specimen Lat. Dict. 12 His coming to an Estate makes him carry his Head so high. 1724 London Gaz. No. 6258/3 Stolen..a Mare..does not carry her Tail well. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xiv. 329 It is called Tapacolo, or ‘cover your posterior’; and well does the shameless little bird deserve its name; for it carries its tail more than erect. 1976 K. Reddick Horses 43 The Timor's large, straight-profiled head is carried on a short, thick neck. 2004 New Yorker 2 Feb. 78/3 She carried her wide-hipped, rangy body warily, as if it might detonate. b. transitive (reflexive). To move or hold one's body in a particular way. With adverb or adverbial phrase indicating the manner of moving; also with adjective complement. ΚΠ 1602 A. Munday tr. 3rd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. xxi. f. 49 Shee carryed herselfe with such a stately gesture, that the Ladies of the Court (noting theyr loue seruants to eye her so entirely) beganne to wexe iealous and doubtfull of them. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 10 Nov. (1948) II. 409 Stella is naturally a stout walker, and carries herself firm. 1870 Ohio Educ. Monthly Jan. 8 Carry yourself erect. In standing, let the knee of the supporting limb be firm. 1915 F. H. Burnett Lost Prince (1971) xix. 166 One of them would have been a handsome lad if he had not carried himself slouchingly. 2007 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 29 July 26 My friend Christina has an enviable ease and fluidity in her movement and she carries herself in the most upright and dignified fashion. †c. intransitive. Of a horse: to hold the head in a particular way. Chiefly with well or low with reference to a horse's tendency to hold its head properly lifted, or in too low a position respectively. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > assume or hold a posture [verb (intransitive)] > hold body in a posture carry1696 1696 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Parfait Mareschal i. lxxxi. 234 This Bit Mouth is for a horse which hath a Mouth somewhat Fickle,..and inclines to Arm himself against his Counter, or to Carry low. 1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. i. at Wind A Horse that carries in the Wind, is one that tosses his Nose as high as his Ears, and does not carry handsomely. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Raise is likewise used for placing a horse's head right, and making him carry well, and hindring him to carry low, or to arm himself. 1829 London Encycl. V. 194 A horse is said to carry well, when his neck is arched, and he holds his head high. d. transitive. Nautical. In phrases referring to the tendency of a sailing vessel to head into or away from the wind. Frequently in to carry weather helm: to have a tendency to head into the wind if the tiller is released (see weather-helm n.); to carry lee helm: to have a tendency to head to leeward if the tiller is released (see lee-helm n.). ΚΠ 1757 Regulations & Instr. relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea (Royal Navy) (ed. 9) 232 How she proves in sailing through all the Variations of the Wind..how many Knots she runs in each Circumstance; and how she carries her Helm? 1836 F. Marryat Pirate iii, in Pirate & Three Cutters 23 ‘How does she carry her helm, Matthew?’ inquired Oswald... ‘Spoke a-weather’. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 190 A screw ship carries more weather helm than a sailing ship. 1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 407/1 A sailing craft is said to carry lee helm when the helm has to be kept alee to counteract slackness and keep it on its course. 2010 Yachting Monthly Apr. 36/3 It's not a good system for boats that carry a lot of weather helm. 40. a. transitive (reflexive). To conduct oneself; to behave in a particular way to or towards others. With adverb or adverbial phrase indicating the manner of behaving; in earlier use also with adjective complement. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave or conduct oneself [verb (reflexive)] wieldOE leadc1175 bear?c1225 steera1250 to take onc1275 contain1297 to shift one's handa1300 demeanc1320 guyc1325 govern1340 keep1362 havec1390 rulec1390 guide14.. conceivea1425 maintain?a1425 maynea1425 behavec1440 disporta1450 orderc1487 use1497 handle?1529 convey1530 gesture1542 treat1568 carry1584 deport1598 bestow1606 comport1616 mienc1680 conduct1706 the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave or conduct oneself [verb (reflexive)] > behave towards another carry1584 1584 tr. Y. Rouspeau in tr. Two Treat. Lord his Holie Supper i. 23 We must praie vnto God, that by his grace we may so carrie our selues towards him in holines. 1612 W. Strachey Lawes 80 He is to carry him selfe discreete, temperate, quiet and friendly. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 4 Nov. (1976) IX. 347 The Duke of York doth..carry himself wonderful submissive to the King. a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 74 My Sisters..carried themselves very kindly to me. 1880 Time Feb. 580 He was sobered; he carried himself responsibly. 2003 Early Amer. Lit. 38 475 The New Englanders carried themselves toward the Indians, ‘not with violence and intrusion, but free and faire’. †b. intransitive. To behave; to conduct oneself. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave, conduct, or bear oneself [verb (intransitive)] i-bereeOE workeOE makeOE fere1154 walka1200 steera1250 to take onc1275 fare1340 to fare with oneself1340 containa1375 to let latesa1400 usea1400 dealc1400 rulea1425 act1593 comport1616 carry1650 deport1667 demean1678 behave1721 conduct1754 to carry on1828 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 95 He craved the advise of the Assemblie how to carie in the mater. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. ii. vii. 285 It is an action of very great Prudence to carry even between adulation and sowreness. 1726 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 269 I hope the youth will carry so as he may not be ashamed of the God of his fathers. †41. transitive. To exercise (a function, power, influence, etc.). Obsolete.See also to carry a great stroke at stroke n.¹ 3d. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [verb (transitive)] wieldeOE bearOE rulea1393 sway1575 carry1598 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 22 The Lieutenant..in the absence of his Captaine, carieth his roome, charge and command. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 513 These Kings shall not be able to carry that sway and greatnesse,..which that great Monarch bore before them. 42. transitive. Military. To hold (a weapon) in an upright position resting on the shoulder, as when on parade or giving a salute. Chiefly in to carry swords (frequently in imperative).Cf. carry n.¹ 4, carried adj. 3. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (transitive)] > position weapons charge1509 trailc1550 present1579 recover1594 return1598 handle1621 rest1622 port1625 slope1625 reverse1630 to order arms1678 carry1779 1779 T. Hindle Exercise Company of Foot 43 Carry Arms; 2 motions. From Slope Arms. 1st. The butt of the firelock is brought down with the left hand as low as is customary in shouldering, the right hand placed at same time under the lock. 1795 Memorandums of Field Exercise Cavalry 11 At the word ‘Carry Swords,’ the proper position is to be instantly resumed. 1797 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (rev. ed.) App. 254 Carry swords! Eyes—right! 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 265 Reliefs are to carry their Arms when passing Officers who are dressed in their Uniforms. 1929 Times 8 July 16/2 When the Royal carriage passed through the Horse Guards Archway the guard carried swords, and a trumpeter sounded the Royal Salute. 2016 @agrowen 11 June in twitter.com (accessed 9 Dec. 2020) Cough sweets & port for a lost parade voice? I think I'll get by with zeal for my Queen & Country. ‘Mounted Troops Carry Swords!’ ****** To have as an attribute, quality, feature, etc. 43.** †a. transitive. To have (specified dimensions). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > have specific dimensions [verb (transitive)] carry1578 1578 J. Frampton tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Briefe Descr. Portes Weast India 25 At the end of the land is the entrie of the baye of S. Thome, and y^e bay doth returne vpon the cape Southeast .xlv. leagues, and carieth in length and breadth .xv. leagues. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 382 The height of the West arched roofe..carrieth an hundred and two foot. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 96 The walls yet show you what compasse it carryed. b. transitive. To have (a particular weight).See also to carry weight at weight n.¹ 12b. ΚΠ 1809 D. Price Syst. Sheep-grazing Romney Marsh ii. 50 They say that the long-legged sheep will fetch the greater price; for they stand up higher in the pens, and seem to carry more weight than the short-legged. 1904 Daily Chron. 17 Aug. 4/7 The machine indicated that the Member for East Sydney ‘carried’ 18st. 4½lb. 1982 B. MacLaverty Time to Dance (1985) 84 If you ask me, you're carrying too much weight. 2015 T. Hartmann Death in Pines v. 34 I guessed he carried maybe 210 pounds. 44. a. (a) transitive. To exhibit or display (a characteristic, attribute, quality, etc., which may be perceived by the senses). ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > [verb (transitive)] uppec897 atewOE sutelec1000 openOE awnc1175 kithec1175 forthteec1200 tawnec1220 let witc1275 forthshowa1300 to pilt out?a1300 showa1300 barea1325 mythc1330 unfoldc1374 to open outc1390 assign1398 mustera1400 reyve?a1400 vouchc1400 manifest?a1425 outshowc1425 ostendc1429 explayc1443 objecta1500 reveala1500 patefy?1509 decipher1529 relieve1533 to set outa1540 utter1542 report1548 unbuckle1548 to set forth1551 demonstrate1553 to hold forth1560 testify1560 explicate1565 forthsetc1565 to give show of1567 denudec1572 exhibit1573 apparent1577 display?1578 carry1580 cipher1583 laya1586 foreshow1590 uncloud?1594 vision1594 explain1597 proclaim1597 unroll1598 discloud1600 remonstrate1601 resent1602 to bring out1608 palesate1613 pronounce1615 to speak out1623 elicit1641 confess1646 bear1657 breathe1667 outplay1702 to throw out1741 evolve1744 announce1781 develop1806 exfoliate1808 evince1829 exposit1882 pack1925 1580–1 Act 23 Elizabeth I ix. §2 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. iv. 671 Whiche Coulers, althoughe they carrye a shewe of a good true and perfitte couler. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. B^v That Lady trew, Whose semblance she did carrie vnder feigned hew. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1073 His habit carries peace, his brow defiance. View more context for this quotation 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Foal The same Shape he carries at a Month, he will carry at six Years old. 1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle xv. 236 Both carried grave faces. 1975 S. J. Fleming Authenticity in Art ii. 56 The undersketching may well carry several quite personal features of an artist's style. 2012 Chalk July 85/1 BUM comes up with stylish yet functional bags that carry the brand's style philosophy: the Modern Goth Look with a touch of Glam Rock. (b) transitive. To exhibit or display (a characteristic, attribute, quality, etc., which may be perceived by the intellect or understanding). ΚΠ 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 228 Rude and vnciuill speaches carry a marueilous great indecencie. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 76 Make your descant carrie some forme of relation to the plaine song. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 45 In some Vegetables we see something that carries a kind of analogy to Sense; they contract their leaves against the cold [etc.]. 1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 576 The liability..may at first sight carry the air of hardship. 1968 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 7 Dec. 1107/1 Spätlese is an interesting word carrying the aura of the sweet, late, vine-ripened fruit. 2014 Wire May 77/4 It's provocatively ambiguous whether this air of failure carries a sense of pathos, or whether the music is just unsuccessful. †b. transitive. To have or maintain (affection, respect, fondness, etc.) with regard to a person or thing. With to, unto, or towards. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > emotional attitude > hold, entertain, or cherish (a feeling) [verb (transitive)] haveOE takec1175 feelc1225 makec1225 hoard1340 cherishc1385 harbour1393 nourisha1522 nurse1567 lodge1583 carry1586 1586 Queen Elizabeth I Let. 10 Feb. in State Papers Foreign Elizabeth I (P.R.O. SP 84/6) f. 241 There is not that rewerente respect Carried towardes vs by our subiectes as in dutie appertaineth. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence v. 147 The naturall affection they caried vnto the countreymen. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 112. ⁋2 To carry an universal Benevolence towards every Thing that has Life. a1718 W. Penn Wks. (1726) I. 538 The Over-fondness some carry to their Opinion. c. transitive. To have (authority, power, an obligation, etc.) as an inherent or essential characteristic; to involve (something) implicitly.See also to carry weight at weight n.¹ 18c, to carry conviction at conviction n. 6b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [verb (intransitive)] to give (the) law (to)a1225 reignc1325 to rule the roastc1500 to bear (the) rooma1529 to have, bear, carry, strike the stroke1531 to bear (a or the) sway1549 to bear a (also the) rout1550 (to have) swing and sway1552 to rule the rout1570 master1656 carry1662 to lay down the law1762 to rule the roost1769 to carry (also hold) (big) guns1867 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. 207 All these [Laws] we say are such as do not carry an immutable obligation along with them. 1717 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 39 They Desired Leave to Withdraw, least their presence, if such bill should be Past without further amendments, might be understood to Carry their assent along with it. 1729 Bp. J. Butler Serm. iii, in Wks. (1874) II. 33 Conscience..carries its own authority with it. 1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism iv. 168 The determination of [these questions] carries..the question of ecclesiastical polity. 1891 Speaker 2 May 528/1 Universal suffrage brought into France in 1789 its logical sequent; the right of the voter carried with it the duty of the defender. 1943 M. Samuel tr. S. Asch Apostle ii. xviii. 415 The lessons taught in the stoa..carried with them no moral obligation for the individual. 2015 P. S. Ripp Empowered Schools, Empowered Students 63 Change doesn't have to be dramatic,..it can be easy, it can be minor, and yet it can still carry great power. 45. transitive. To entail or involve (a particular consequence, risk, etc.). Of a crime or act of wrongdoing: spec. to be punishable by (a particular penalty). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > bring about as a consequence or entail makeOE haveOE drawa1400 to draw inc1405 to leave behind1424 goc1449 to draw on1572 train1579 carry1581 beara1616 to lead toa1770 evolve1816 entail1829 mean1841 issue1842 subinduce1855 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > incorporate or include [verb (transitive)] > implicitly carry1581 implicate1602 to wind upa1616 enwrap1642 enfold1646 involve1646 1581 T. Wilcox Vnfouldyng Sundry Vntruths & Absurde Propositions xviii. 133 Forasmuch as this speech carrieth with it some dangerous consequences, it shall bee good for vs, to looke somewhat into it. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. 91 Your Crime will carry its own punishment. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. ix. 342 Some vigorous effort, though it carried never so much danger, ought to be made. 1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith ii. 66 A positive judgment carrying immense consequences. 1920 Independent (U.S.) 17 Jan. 116/3 A wrong deed carries with it an automatic penalty. 1986 J. Batten Judges 24 A conviction on second-degree murder, a lesser offence but one that still carried a long jail sentence. 2002 Independent 13 Dec. 10/4 The operation..carried huge risks for the men who were to head for enemy territory. 46. transitive. Of a word, term, text, etc.: to have or convey (a meaning, sense, connotation, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > mean, signify, express [verb (transitive)] tokenc888 meaneOE sayOE bequeathc1175 signifya1382 beara1400 bemeana1400 soundc1400 designc1429 applyc1450 betoken1502 express1526 conveya1568 intend1572 carry1584 denotate1597 pronounce1610 to set out1628 implya1640 speak1645 denote1668 designate1741 describe1808 enunciate1859 read1894 1584 E. Paget tr. J. Calvin Comm. Gospel after John iv. 81 in Harmonie vpon Three Euangelists The wordes carry another meaning. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiv. 207 The constant Signification of words; which..dependeth not..on vulgar use, but on the sense they carry in the Scripture. 1806 Sydney Gaz. 2 Nov. Whereas the term Currency, made use of in this Colony, seems not to have carried its proper Signification in the Small Notes generally circulated; It is hereby declared, that its meaning is only applicable to Money, and not Barter in Goods. 1881 E. B. Tylor Anthropol. vi. 162 The root, which carries the sense..is followed by suffixes strung on to modify it. 1970 R. W. Fasold & R. W. Shuy Teaching Standard Eng. in Inner City p. xi The term dialect seems to carry such a heavy pejorative connotation these days. 2001 B. K. Das tr. P. Ray Primal Land lxxxi. 231 Somra was unable to decide if this was praise or irony. Here, every word seemed to carry a double meaning. 47. transitive. To have or bear (a name or title). In later use also: to have or be entitled to display (a particular logo, label, brand, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > have or bear (name) beara1225 weara1586 carry1601 undergo1605 sustain1700 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvii. vii. 616 Rubies of India..which carrie the name also of Carchedonij. 1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. ii. 67 Those who complied [to the Interim of Charles V] were for the most part Lutherans, and carried the Name of Adiaphorists. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xl. 165 To be..God-blessed..by one who carried ‘Sir’ before his name..was something for a porter. 1896 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 16 Dec. 3/2 The Canadian whiskies..carry the label of the manufacturer, who is thus able to insure that they are of the quality he desires. 1986 Fortune 4 Aug. 130 The new products have done so well..partly because they carry familiar brand names. 2000 Oldie Dec. 36/2 Before my father succeeded he carried the courtesy title of Lord Hartington. 48. transitive.To have (a price or value). Also of an investment, loan, etc.: to have (interest, or a particular condition) stipulated in the terms. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > extract gas or liquid exhaust1540 draina1552 to draw off1594 uncask1594 spring1597 carry1602 tap1602 milka1628 to carry off1677 evacuate1719 drafta1875 aspirate1880 bleed1889 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 14^v The Tynne so sold, hath vsually..carried price betweene twentie and thirtie pound the thousand. 1690 ‘A Gentleman of Ireland’ Present Settlement Vindicated 61 So Bankrupt as to issue Money that did not carry intrinsick value above the Twenty-fourth part of its Name. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4870/4 Notes carrying 6 per Cent. Interest. 1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 79 In countries where the generality of land..lets at, from twelve to fourteen shillings an acre, I have observed that these little farms carry twenty shillings..an acre. 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking v. 104 Bills or notes on demand carry no grace. 1914 H. Halford Dict. Stock Market Terms (ed. 2) 79 Debentures and Preference Stocks carrying a fixed rate of interest. 2006 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 July 29/5 Real estate agents and auctioneers will soon have to prove why a property should carry a certain price under new laws. Phrases P1. to carry coals: see coal n. Phrases 4. P2. as fast as one's legs can carry one and variants: as fast as one is able to run, walk, etc.; as quickly as one can; at top speed. ΚΠ 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1633/1 He [sc. Latimer] ranne as fast as hys old bones would cary him. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 115 So I took a head, and ran into the country as fast as my feet could carry me. 1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. vii. 34 ‘Follow me as fast as your little pins can carry you,’ said the other. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song ii. 79 in Scots Quair (1995) You'd to speed quick as your legs could carry you to fire the frontward bushes when those behind raged out with their flames and smoke in your hair. 2001 K. Glowczewska tr. R. Kapuściński Shadow of Sun (2002) 70 Small children run away at the sight of me as fast as their legs can carry them, and hide in the corners. P3. Phrases relating to success or victory. a. to carry all before one and variants: to prevail over a person or group by overwhelming strength; to sweep away opposition, esp. by the force of one's own opinions or personality.Frequently in metaphorical or similative use, with allusion to the irresistible force of a flood, storm, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) > sweep away all obstacles to success to carry all before one1587 1587 M. Renniger Treat. sig. E4 Looke into our owne bosomes, and there lurke the Ghostly and common enemies, euen grosse & greeuous sinnes which breake out, carry all before them, & ouerflow all. 1672 R. Wild Poetica Licentia in Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 35 Some men there be that carry all before 'em. 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 324 The Whiggs are rampant, & thinke to carry all before them. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage viii. 169 The Irreconcilables carried everything their own way. 1955 Thought 5 Feb. 16/3 It was Mr Nehru..in one of his most exuberant moods, that was everywhere carrying everything before him. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xvi. 496 Take the worse thing that is said about you, accuse your accusers of the selfsame fault, be more beautiful and media-friendly than they, and you will carry all before you, like a storm. b. to carry one's point and variants: to be successful in putting across one's opinion or message, esp. in the face of opposition from others; to bring someone round to one's own point of view. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win win1297 obtain1441 to go away with it1489 triumph1508 to carry (also get, lose, win, etc.) the day1557 to bear it1602 carry1602 to carry away the bucklers1608 to carry one's point1654 to carry it off1828 to ring the bell1900 1654 G. Hutcheson Brief Expos. Prophecies (Micah i. 2) 66 Let the Lord be witnesse against you, and he will carry his point. 1689 W. Popple tr. J. Locke Let. conc. Toleration 45 The Magistrate..will have his Will, and carry his point. 1741 R. Cross in R. Webster Hist. Presbyterian Church Amer. (1857) 170 They effectually carry the point with the poor credulous people, who, in imitation of their example..judge their ministers to be graceless. 1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. iii. ii. 160 She ended..by carrying her own point, and having her own way. 1999 R. Dowis Lost Art of Great Speech (e-book ed.) Although many fine speeches contain humor, to entertain is rarely the purpose of a speech. Instead, the humor helps to carry a point or to win over an audience. c. to carry a (great, etc.) stroke: see stroke n.¹ 3d. d. to carry the day: see day n. 13. P4. Phrases relating to maintaining discipline or control. †a. to carry a strict (also severe, etc.) hand over (also upon, to): to be strict, severe, etc., with regard to (a person or thing). Obsolete (archaic in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > follow (a course of behaviour) [verb (transitive)] > behave towards ateec1000 leadc1175 makec1175 farec1230 beleadc1275 dightc1275 beseec1300 servec1300 treatc1374 usea1382 proceeda1393 demean1393 to deal witha1400 treatc1400 to do to ——a1425 entreat?a1425 handc1440 ferea1450 entertain1490 ray1509 to do unto ——?1523 tract1548 deal1573 to carry a strict (also severe, etc.) hand over (also upon, to)c1591 play1597 to comport with1675 to behave towards or to1754 usen1814 c1591 J. Norden Progr. Pietie (1847) 22 We must carry a very short hand over our affections. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) ii. 25 Ile carry an even hand to all the world. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. xxi. 121 To carrie a strict hand upon the Commissaries. 1723 S. Morland Specimen Lat. Dict. 12 To Carry a severe Hand over any one. 1738 S. Whatley tr. K. L. von Pöllnitz Mem. IV. 177 A House of Correction for loose young Fellows and Women, over whom the Police of Geneva carries a very strict Hand. 1864 G. C. Fullerton in Month July 21 In truth, good Mistress Sherwood, I carry a strict hand over them, never suffering their faults to go unchastised. †b. to carry a wary (also watchful, etc.) eye on (also upon): to watch (a person) carefully; to be vigilant with regard to (a person); to be wary of. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch on [verb (transitive)] biwitieOE to look to ——c1330 watchc1330 to make or lay await onc1386 markc1400 to wait to ——c1440 to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye on (also upon)a1450 waken1535 to look unto ——1594 to carry a wary (also watchful, etc.) eye on (also upon)1596 to look after ——a1616 overwatch1618 snokea1652 to look up1855 surveil1960 1596 Z. Jones tr. M. Barleti Hist. G. Castriot vii. 272 He had enioyned some of his people with promises of good rewardes to carie a good eye vpon Debreas. 1642 F. Fairfax Let. 26 Jan. in Parl. Hist. Eng. (1753) XII. 160 I shall carry a vigilant Eye upon his Designs, and endeavour to prevent them. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 30 If any man..shall carry a wary eye on Paulus Venetus..and many other, I think his circumspection is laudable. 1728 W. Delaune Twelve Serm. vii. 162 Though I should have sufficient Reason to carry a watchful Eye upon myself in his Presence. P5. to carry one's life in one's hands: to be exposed to potentially fatal risks in the course of one's everyday life, work, or duties. Now rare. ΚΠ 1615 R. Rogers Comm. Bk. Judges li. 393 They carry their life in their hands, and are in danger of spending their blood in the cause of God. 1747 Friendly Let. Brit. Soldiery in Mem. concerning Present State Protestant Relig. in France 10 Do I carry my Life in my Hands, am I in Danger of Death every Moment, and shall I be so sottish and stupid as to rush upon everlasting Damnation? 1889 J. E. Muddock Stories Weird & Wonderful xx. 281 I wandered about those western wilds, and threw myself heart and soul into the adventurous existence peculiar to them...I literally carried my life in my hands. 1912 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 2/2 The Transatlantic ‘railway-man’, whatever his rank,..must at times carry his life in his hands. 2006 Africa News (Nexis) 9 Mar. The majority of them were barely children, carrying their lives in their hands, ready to submit to whatever fate brought their way. P6. to drink more than one can carry and variants: to drink more alcohol than one can withstand without becoming inebriated. ΚΠ 1615 H. Parrot Mastiue sig. I2^v Such Husbands as are worldly wise, Will spend no more then nature shall suffise. As not to drinke more then their braynes can carie, For feare their iudgements from their wits should varie. 1653 J. Howell German Diet sig. L Hereupon they use to characterize a Dutchman to be an Animal that can drink more then he can carry. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lxvii. 339 A sailor having drank more new rum than he could carry. 1867 Our Boys & Girls 21 Dec. 698/2 He was no longer in condition even to drink for both of us. He had already taken more than he could carry. 1947 ‘P. Wentworth’ Wicked Uncle (1996) xxx. 221 It's my opinion he'd had a good bit more to drink than he could carry. 2009 @BillyD81 12 July in twitter.com (accessed 26 Nov.) I drank more than I could carry last night. P7. †to carry double: (of a horse) to carry two people. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (intransitive)] > carry pillion to carry double1637 1637 J. Shirley Young Admirall v. sig. K2^v Pag. Get but a brave horse—Paz. That would carry double, and I might bring home the Princesse behind me to the Campe. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. 206 The next thing to be done was to get two horses for the ladies, for mine were not able to carry double any further. 1839 New Monthly Mag. June 260 Not a syllable is to be found in that warranty as to the capability of the horse Pickle carrying double. 1901 Munsey's Mag. Jan. 484/1 It ain't the first time the pelter's carried double. 2013 R. J. Gossett My Five Sons xxiii. 209 His horse was on the verge of collapse from carrying double at a fast gallop. P8. to carry (a person) off his (also her) feet. a. To cause (a person) be unduly influenced by something, esp. in a way which affects rational thought or behaviour; to cause (a person) to be overcome with passion, enthusiasm, or other strong emotion. Frequently in passive.Cf. to sweep (a person) off his feet at sweep v. 6c. ΚΠ 1677 J. Brown Christ the Way xii. 221 A spirit of error is gone abroad, and many are carried off their feet therewith. 1800 in R. Burns Wks. 234 A Scottish lady..declared..that no man's conversation ever carried her so completely off her feet as that of Burns. 1889 C. Smith Repentance Paul Wentworth III. 145 He positively carried me off my feet for a few minutes that evening. 2007 Afr. News (Nexis) 4 Oct. Heroes are often carried off their feet by their acts of heroism. b. To knock (a person) over; to cause (a person) to fall to the ground. ΚΠ 1733 W. Mitchel Second Day's Journey Tinclarian Doctor 11 A great blast of Wind which carried me off my Feet, and threw me down the Brae. 1889 E. S. Ellis Life Kit Carson vi. 36 They set their traps in the wildest recesses of the Rocky Mountains where the whirling snow storms almost carried them off their feet. 2000 Vancouver (Brit. Columbia) Province (Nexis) 14 May (Sports section) a94 Barilko..launched a shot at Habs goalie Gerry McNeil. The momentum carried him off his feet. P9. to carry (something) into effect (also execution, practice, etc.): to cause (something which has previously been considered, decided, etc.), to be put into action or operation.In quot. 1715 with indefinite article, in the form to carry into an execution. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (transitive)] > carry into effect (a command, promise, plan, etc.) fillOE fulfilc1300 performc1300 executec1405 to draw in(to) consequencec1420 forthfillc1420 persolve1548 to go through ——a1586 effecta1593 to fill up1600 complete1680 to carry (something) into effect (also execution, practice, etc.)1715 implement1806 to put into effect1936 1715 Upon Petition of W. Paterson (House of Commons) 5 As by the particular Proposals made for that purpose fully appears, tho' they were never..carried into an Execution. 1718 Sir J. Schaw, Appellant. Dame M. Schaw & Sir J. Houston, Respondents: Appellant's Case 3 This is..but a Covenant to settle, which in England would not be decreed to be carried into Execution in Favour of a Volunteer as the Respondent Dame Margaret is. 1819 in J. Milbank First Cent. Flight in Amer. (1943) v. 71 To carry into operation his principles for navigating air ships. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 123 He did not tarry long in carrying his purpose into effect. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. ii. v. 107 In the Church the beautiful ideal of human brotherhood was carried into practice. 1994 Esprit de Corps (Ottawa) Aug. 30/2 For my part I like to see a General that can first form a plan and then has the steadiness to carry his plan into execution. P10. to carry the war into the enemy's camp and variants: to attack a person or thing, rather than acting defensively; to go on the offensive against a person, organization, etc. Similarly to carry the war into Africa (chiefly U.S.).In quot. 1791 in metaphorical use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)] to lay ona1225 assailc1325 sailc1330 assemblea1375 to fall inc1384 to fall ona1387 givec1430 brunt1440 to set (all) on sevenc1440 to ding on1487 to fall down1534 offend1540 to go on1553 to give on?1611 to let fly1611 strikea1616 insult1638 to set on1670 aggress1708 to carry the war into the enemy's camp1791 hop over1929 1791 Gen. Evening Post 7 May Ministers..rightly thinking that it was a good military manœuvre, when pressed themselves, to carry the war into the enemy's country, seized on what he had said..and..strove to make it a topic of popular libel. 1827 Niles' Weekly Reg. 7 Apr. 97/2 The readers of the ‘Register’ will, I hope, excuse this repulsion of a gross assault. I feel able to defend myself, and to carry the war into an enemy's camp too, if I please. 1828 Reg. Deb. Congr. 4 i. 1315 I shall not..act in mere self-defence. I shall carry the war into Africa. 1835 R. J. Mackintosh Mem. Life Sir J. Mackinstosh I. 81 Nor was this production altogether defensive; the war was now and then carried into the enemy's quarters. 1927 L. P. Hartley in C. Asquith Black Cap 47 ‘I don't think Rollo is slow,’ remarked Jimmy, hoping to carry the war into her country. 1938 H. McCloy Dance of Death xx. 237 Her smile annoyed Basil. He carried the war into Africa. ‘Are you aware that M. Pasquale takes morphine?’ 2004 A. Lustig in A. Lustig et al. Darwinian Heresies iv. 69 They [sc. evolutionary biologists] also carry the war into the enemy's camp, aiming not only to safeguard their own work but also to vitiate the very underpinnings of religion. P11. Cricket. to carry one's bat: (of an opening batter) to remain not out at the end of the team’s completed innings. Sometimes also used more generally of batters who are not out at the end of an innings.See also to carry out one's bat at to carry out 1c at Phrasal verbs, to carry one's bat through at to carry through 3 at Phrasal verbs, and to take out one's bat at take v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > be not out to bring out one's bat1833 to carry one's bat1833 to carry out one's bat1834 to take out one's bat1838 to carry one's bat through1839 1833 New Sporting Mag. Sept. 325 Take care who's in, or through the game Your bat you will not carry. 1882 Cliftonian June 228 The former carried his bat for a lucky 14. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 18 May 7/1 Grace has carried his bat twenty-two times when scoring centuries. 2019 Manawatu (N.Z.) Standard (Nexis) 19 Nov. 5 Treder opened the innings with Courtney Infield, who scored 25, and carried her bat, facing 53 balls. P12. Chiefly Caribbean and Nigerian English. a. to carry me (also you, it, etc.) (and) go: to take (a person or thing) somewhere; to take (someone or something) away. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > carry carryc1400 fure1487 port1566 porter1609 tote1677 hug1788 to carry me (also you, it, etc.) (and) go1837 pack1846 hump1853 1837 Statem. Facts submitted to Right Honourable Ld. Glenelg 19 They come call me, but me no want to come, they force me, massa—say it must be done, and done at once, and say so four times, and massa—come back and shove me, and carry me go. 1935 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 22 June 26/1 De darg dat carry bone come, wi' carry bone go... ‘The dog that fetches will carry’. 2011 @9ja_Qtee 24 July in twitter.com (accessed 13 Jan. 2021) Sleep can now carry me and go. b. to carry me (also you, it, etc.) (and) come: to bring (a person or thing) somewhere; to fetch (someone or something). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > bringing > bring [verb (transitive)] > fetch > specifically a person or animal fetOE fetchc1000 routc1776 to carry me (also you, it, etc.) (and) come1935 1935 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 22 June 26/1 De darg dat carry bone come, wi' carry bone go... ‘The dog that fetches will carry’. 1996 C. M. Booker & A. C. Winkler Bob Marley (2003) xvi. 171 Mamma, it look like me can't make you do my business, you know. How could you make de people carry you come here so? 2018 @Thundazz2 6 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 13 Jan. 2021) If i was American i don't know wat will carry me and come to this country [sc. Nigeria]. Phrasal verbs With adverbs in specialized senses. to carry about †1. intransitive. To go or travel around. Obsolete. [Compare note at sense 23.] ΚΠ c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. l. 29 As Ancres and Hermytes þat holdeþ hem in heore Celles, Coueyte not in Cuntre to carien [B text c1400 Laud 581 kairen] a-boute. 2. a. transitive. To take or transport (a person or thing) from one place to another; to have (something) on one's person when going about one's work, duties, etc.; to take with one. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] remuea1325 movea1382 translatea1382 transfer1382 transfigurec1384 removea1387 to turn overa1425 transume1483 to carry about1496 traduce1546 transplant1555 transact1621 transmigrate1635 hand1642 to make over1713 recover1719 to carry over1850 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] > convey by carrying (of person) > as part of one's equipment to carry about1496 tote1823 pack1846 1496 tr. Medytacions St. Bernarde sig. Av^v This corruptyble & rotlewe body that I cary abowte. 1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. 1178 To carry about with them an aultar stone whereby they might haue a Priest to say them Masse, or other diuine seruice, where they would. 1645 J. Bastwick 2nd Pt. Independency not God's Ordinance 58 Ye shall frequently see them amongst Lords and Ladies..carried about in Coaches with four Horses, in great state; whereas a Wheele-barrow..were a great deale fitter for them. 1786 R. Jones Two Funeral Serm. 29 Is he [sc. man] sent hither to carry about with him a pained body, or a vexed heart? 1872 W. Besant & J. Rice Ready-money Mortiboy v He carried about with him a largish sum in valuables and money. 1906 W. Cunningham Should our Railways be Nationalised? (ed. 4) 52 The rate book for the whole of Germany is less than 80 pages, and a trader carries it about in his pocket. 2019 National (Scotl.) (Nexis) 31 Dec. To the younger members of my family the iPad is a kind of extra limb. They carry it about with them day and night. †b. transitive. To pass on or circulate (news, a rumour, a report, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (transitive)] sowc888 blowc1275 dispeple1297 to do abroadc1300 fame1303 publyc1350 defamea1382 publisha1382 open?1387 proclaima1393 slandera1400 spreada1400 abroachc1400 throwc1400 to give outa1425 promote?a1425 noisec1425 publicc1430 noisec1440 divulgea1464 to put outc1475 skail1487 to come out witha1500 bruit1525 bruita1529 to bear out1530 divulgate1530 promulgate1530 propale?1530 ventilate1530 provulgate1535 sparple1536 sparse1536 promulge1539 disperse1548 publicate1548 forthtell1549 hurly-burly?1550 propagate1554 to set abroada1555 utter1561 to set forth1567 blaze1570 evulgate1570 scatter1576 rear?1577 to carry about1585 pervulgate1586 celebrate?1596 propalate1598 vent1602 evulge1611 to give forth1611 impublic1628 ventilate1637 disseminate1643 expose1644 emit1650 to put about1664 to send abroad1681 to get abroad1688 to take out1697 advertise1710 forward1713 to set abouta1715 circulate1780 broadcast1829 vent1832 vulgate1851 debit1879 float1883 1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles (xv. 2) 351 They must be endewed with inuincible courage to despise al false reports which are caried about concerning them. 1687 J. Gother Catholic Representer ix. 60/1 Some other Reports, that have been warmly carried about this last Month by Men of all Coats. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. 233 Tho' a visible apparition from Hell it self openly and avowedly carried the report about, yet it shall go about. 1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xxii. 172 Lacqueys have ears as well as their masters, and they carry about all sorts of stories. 1913 F. N. Greene Right of Strongest xx. 257 The news was carried about by a young Thaggin on horseback that grandma was dead. 3. transitive (chiefly in passive). To cause (a person or thing) to be driven or propelled in one direction and then another; to move or drive around.Frequently with reference or allusion to Hebrews 13:9 and Ephesians 4:14 (see quots. 1534 and 1539). ΚΠ 1534 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. xiii. B Be not caryed aboute with divers and straunge learnynge. 1539 Bible (Great) Eph. iv. 14 Caryed aboute with euery wynde of doctrine. 1796 Mod. Gulliver's Trav. 9 Thou mayest be carried about like a float on a fishing-line, the whirligig of every gurglet in the stream. 1890 Rust in Wheat: Minutes Conf. Delegates Victoria, S. Austral., New South Wales, & Queensland 41 Some [spores or germs], being carried about by the breeze, lodge in the soil or on other plants. 1909 J. Miller 20th Cent. Hist. Erie County, Pennsylvania I. xxii. 214 The sand was carried about by the winds forming dunes. 2010 R. Rorty Ethics for Today (2011) 10 What the pope disparagingly calls the relativists' habit of being carried about by every wind of doctrine is viewed by philosophers like myself as openness to new possibilities. 4. transitive. To cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to set in motion. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > cause to move [verb (transitive)] stira1023 icchec1175 wawc1290 movea1382 remble1579 rouse1582 agitate1592 act1597 to put in (also into, to) motion1597 activate1624 actuate1641 animate1646 ferment1667 to feague away1671 to carry about1680 excite1694 jee1722 bestir1813 emotion1831 to set on1855 send1864 motion1929 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 189 Wheels Turn'd with Wind, Water, or Horses, to carry the Work about. 1777 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 57 285 Conceive now a spherical surface.., having the same center and radius as the equator DE, to be carried about with the revolving spheroid. 1804 Brit. Critic Mar. 338 With the mean velocity..of the first rotation, every point in the equator would be carried about at the rate of 5 yards only in 1 hour. 1991 Arabic Sci. & Philos. 1 289 There is a third sphere..concentric with the other two. It is attached to the second just above A, so that it is carried about by the rotation of the second. to carry along 1. transitive. To take or transport (a person or thing) from one place to another; to conduct, convey; to take with one as one travels or goes about one's work, duties, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] carry1570 to carry along1582 take1738 1582 J. Prime Short Treat. Sacraments sig. Cv Ancient men must not forget who was hee that tooke them from their cradle, and caried them along in his armes to their gray heares. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 17 They [sc. the Magi] were miraculously provected; and as it were carried along in the ayr. 1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 1 June 141/2 A stone bridge carrying along the road from Peebles to Selkirk. 1947 Life 17 Nov. 151/1 A steady stream of air is kept flowing into these hoods, thereby preventing air currents from escaping into the rest of the lab and carrying germs along. 2007 M. Cezair-Thompson Pirate's Daughter (2008) xxxi. 460 A hustler had approached them..begging for money. They told him they hadn't carried along any money, which was true. 2. transitive. Frequently in passive. To have a strong influence on the thoughts or feelings of (a person or group); to engage and motivate (a person or group), esp. by the force of one's personality, opinions, enthusiasm, etc. ΚΠ 1630 T. Taylor Progresse of Saints 83 Consider, first, what a plague it is for great men to be carried along by flatterers, who rivet them in their wickednesse by applauding them. 1838 R. I. Wilberforce & S. Wilberforce Life W. Wilberforce IV. xxxi. 329 ‘If there is any one,’ said Mr. Canning, ‘who..knows exactly what will carry the House along with him, it certainly is my honourable friend the member for Bramber.’ 1924 R. Spears in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1924 (1925) 201 This Alice Haven was quite a stepper at that. She said my music just carried her right along. 1999 Waitrose Food Illustr. July 32/3 A delight in all things gastonomic leaps off every page... You may not agree with Durack all the time, but it is impossible not to be carried along by his enthusiasm. to carry away 1. a. transitive. To take (a person or thing) elsewhere; to remove, sometimes forcibly or violently. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away ateec885 withbreidec890 animOE overbearOE to do awayOE flitc1175 reavec1175 takec1175 to have away?a1300 to draw awayc1300 weve13.. to wend awaya1325 withdrawa1325 remuec1325 to carry away1363 to take away1372 waive1377 to long awaya1382 oftakec1390 to draw offa1398 to do froa1400 forflitc1420 amove?a1425 to carry out?a1425 surtrayc1440 surtretec1440 twistc1440 abstract1449 ostea1450 remove1459 ablatea1475 araisea1475 redd1479 dismove1480 diminish?1504 convey1530 alienate1534 retire1536 dimove1540 reversec1540 subtractc1540 submove1542 sublate1548 pare1549 to pull in1549 exempt1553 to shift off1567 retract?1570 renversec1586 aufer1587 to lay offa1593 rear1596 retrench1596 unhearse1596 exemea1600 remote1600 to set off1600 subduct1614 rob1627 extraneize1653 to bring off1656 to pull back1656 draft1742 extract1804 reef1901 1363 in Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey 64 (MED) Tenantz take theyr wod called estouers & delfe theyr turves in ye mosse & turbarye in Gayrstang & theyme carye & ber away. 1462 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) 95 (MED) To have al the said wod to the said Richard..with free entre..to fele, pele, occupie, and carie away wod. 1576 R. Curteys Two Serm. sig. Avj The rich men of this world shall..carry away with them nothing but a shrowding sheet. 1661 T. Allin Jrnl. 3 Aug. (1939) (modernized text) I. 44 It fired and carried away most of the flesh of the inside of his arm. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1652 (1955) III. 61 Flinging it into a rapid streame, which not onely carried the Land &c. away, but filled up the moate. 1784 G. A. Hall in G. Washington Papers (1953) VIII. 199 Upwards of 20,000 Negroes were carried away by the British or died of the Small pox, Camp Fevers &ca. 1871 F. Bolton tr. F. Delitzsch Biblical Comm. Psalms II. lxxix. 380 Those who are carried away captive and incarcerated. 1963 C. Cookson Heritage of Folly (1998) vii. 279 The fight was not to swim but to resist being carried away on the outgoing tide. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 July a9/2 Residents often drive atop a hill to watch the twice-weekly ships that carry away what is left of some 500,000 tons of industrial waste that was dumped here. b. transitive. Nautical. To break off and remove (a part of a vessel) by force. Also: to lose (a part of a vessel) as a result of breakage. Occasionally intransitive: to be broken and removed by force. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > be lost [verb (intransitive)] adrillc1350 slip1390 to carry away1604 to go (etc.) down the drain1930 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > forcibly tear off or away tear1297 aracec1315 arachec1315 ravisha1382 pullc1390 to draw offa1398 roota1398 ripa1400 to pull awayc1410 to rip upc1425 brit1578 arrest1593 to carry away1604 avulsea1765 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > become detached [verb (intransitive)] > break off to carry away1604 snap1796 to break away1860 1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 149 The viceadmirall..with his shippe called the Moone, ranne withall his force betwixt the great mast and the poupe of Saint Phillip so as he..carried away with him the hinder part of the galley, and the helme. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3262/3 It blowing fresh, and they bringing their Ship in the Wind, carried away their Foretop-mast. 1720 J. Burchett Compl. Hist. Trans. at Sea v. xxii. 723 The best Bower Anchor carried away with a Shot. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xv. 41 Her jib-boom ran between our..masts, carrying away some of our rigging. 1881 Daily News 9 June 5/4 Something may carry away on board the leading boat. 1973 P. O'Brian HMS Surprise (1996) ix. 324 Rattray out on the perilous bowsprit already with two of his mates, gammoning the jibboom before it carried away. 2016 H. Noel-Smith & L. M. Campbell Hornblower's Hist. Shipmates ii. 30 Anson continued to perform poorly, repeatedly carrying away her yards and springing her masts. 2. transitive. To influence or affect (a person, the mind) strongly, esp. so as to cause foolish, irrational, or uncharacteristic behaviour. Frequently (now chiefly) in passive, often with get in to get carried away.In figurative context in quot. ?1529, with allusion to the irresistible force of a storm. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] rineOE afaite?c1225 stir?c1225 movea1325 amovec1380 inspire1390 commove1393 informa1398 toucha1400 embracec1430 rore1481 alter1529 to carry away?1529 raise1533 removea1540 heavec1540 affect?1548 carry1570 inmove1583 infecta1586 worka1616 unthaw1699 emove1835 emotionize1855 emotion1875 the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > cause nervous excitement or agitate [verb (transitive)] to carry away?1529 agitate1591 fermentate1599 tumultuate1616 alarm1620 overwork1645 uncalm1650 flutter1664 pother1692 to set afloata1713 fluctuate1788 fuss1816 tumult1819 to break up1825 rile1857 to steam up1860 to shake up1884 ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. v. sig. d.iv^v Whiche thynge she shall easly do, if she abyde in her owne power, nor suffer her selfe to be caried away with her owne fantasies, as it were with stormes of wether. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. Pref. sig. *iv^v Their reason is caried away and ouermaistered by the course of the world. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist.* II. 72 I did not thinke to have gone so farre; it is the subject that hath carried me away. 1709 R. Steele Tatler III. No. 151. 157 Woman-kind..are carried away with every Thing that is showy. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xvii. 275 His tribe, he said, had been carried away by the general enthusiasm for liberty, and he could not keep them back. 1956 N. Coward Diary 23 Dec. (2000) 340 She talks wisely and informatively up to the point where she gets carried away. 2001 Times 14 Sept. (Terror in Amer. Suppl.) 20/2 A fortnight ago we were all carried away by sporting joy and a certain 5–1 scoreline. †3. a. transitive. To prevail in (a matter which is disputed); to win (a victory). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > win (any contest or prize) > win (a prize, etc.) to bear awayc1325 getc1330 winc1330 to go away with1489 to carry away1565 carry1570 to bear off?1615 to carry off1680 to take out1976 the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > by effort or competition winc1330 gain1548 to carry away1565 to run away with1822 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare v. 327 M. Hardinge thinketh he may leade alonge his simple Reader, and easily carrie away the mater vnder the bare Titles, and Names of the Learned Fathers. 1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. C4 His wordes..were [not] of sufficient credite to carry away such a matter. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. x. 52 Where, after they have been repulsed or routed, they have rallyed, and carried away many glorious victories. 1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 3rd Pt. iv. 198 Promising, that if he did not clearly carry away the Victory, he would submit himself to the Laws. b. transitive. to carry away the game: to achieve victory or success in a particular endeavour. Also: to do well out of something; to profit from something. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. 404 The poore countrey bare the name, but others carryed away the game. 1603 tr. J. Hotman Ambassador sig. F5 He must..remember, that oftentimes the countenance carrieth away the game. 1650 A. Ascham Answer to Vindic. Dr. Hammond 2 The proverb is, He must have a good cause as well as a good tongue, that will overcome, else he will not easily carry away the game. 1676 Warning for House-keepers 5 When that we have bit the bloe We carry away the game. c. transitive. to carry it away: to achieve victory or success in a particular endeavour; to have or gain the advantage. Obsolete.Cf. main sense 24b. ΚΠ 1587 W. Rankins Mirrour of Monsters f. 23 Euery man by theyr continuall practise doth decerne theyr visard to bee rather immodest impudency, yet so currantly can they carry it away, that he with his Net as expert as themselues, is counted but a..playne Innocent. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xiii. vi. 187 This opinion caried it away. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 52 Doe not thinke that either thy secrecy, or impudence can carrie it away without notice. 4. transitive. To cause (a person) to die; to kill (a person).Cf. to carry off 3 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > cause death [verb (transitive)] to be the death ofOE slayc1000 reavec1230 dissolvec1374 visita1382 extinguish1540 expiate1594 to carry away1603 to carry off1679 devive1869 to settle the number of a person's mess1881 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxvii. 442 A popular sickenesse..carried away an infinite number of persons. 1893 Ann. Gynecol. & Pediatry Dec. 148/1 Dr. Emil Blanc died Sunday morning, carried away at the age of 35 years by super-acute septicæmia. 1993 P. W. Ewald Evol. Infectious Dis. (e-book ed.) Over 20 million were carried away by the influenza virus in little more than a year. 2010 G. E. Smoak in G. M. Bakken World Amer. West (2011) ii. 67 The most famous of all virgin-soil epidemics, the ‘Black Death’ (most likely bubonic plague), carried away approximately one-third of the European population between 1347 and 1352. to carry back 1. transitive. To cause (a person) to remember or think of something; to cause (a person) to return to a state, situation, etc., which existed in the past. With a phrase introduced by to indicating the thing remembered, past state, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [verb (transitive)] > carry or cast back into the past reducea1620 antedate1633 to carry back1644 retroject1850 1644 S. Bolton Tossed Ship To Rdr. sig. A8 Our troubles lead me by the hand, to these Texts, and these Texts did carry me back to our Times. 1764 J. Otis Rights Brit. Colonies 51 Would these gentlemen carry us back to the state of the Goths and Vandals, and revive all the military tenures and bondage which our fore-fathers could not bear? 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §7. 95 The legend..carries us back to the times of our own Ælfred. 1932 E. A. Bentt Metaphysical Found. Mod. Physical Sci. (ed. 2) viii. 305 The second of these alternatives carries us back to pre-scientific logic. 2005 S. Rushdie Shalimar the Clown 31 The ambassador was carried back to his Strasbourgeois childhood years in a Belle Époque mansion. 2. transitive. Accounting. To transfer (a loss, unused credit, etc.) to a previous tax period in order to reduce the amount of tax to be paid.Cf. to carry forward at Phrasal verbs, to carry over 1 at Phrasal verbs, to carry up 5 at Phrasal verbs. ΚΠ 1934 Accounting Rev. 9 226/2 A company which applied its profit in writing off goodwill was allowed to carry back to profit and loss an amount written off which proved to be in excess of the proper requirements. 1943 Effects Taxes upon Corporate Policy (National Industrial Conference Board) iii. 26/2 Provisions..for carrying losses (and excess-profits credits) two years back and two years forward will ameliorate the matter but not correct it. 2002 Which? Tax Saving Guide 56/3 If you want to carry back a payment to 2001–2002, you must pay it and make the option by 31 January 2003. to carry forth †1. intransitive To travel onward; to go forth; to proceed. Obsolete. [Compare note at sense 23.] ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] wadeOE agoOE forthganga1000 forthgoOE syeOE kenc1275 to-stepc1275 vaunce1303 forthnima1325 passc1330 throc1330 forthpass1382 to pass forthc1384 to carry forthc1390 proceedc1392 to go alongc1400 to be forthwardc1430 get) groundc1436 to set onc1450 avauntc1460 pretend1481 to make way1490 advance?1507 to get forward1523 promove1570 to rid ground (also space)1572 to rid (the) way1581 progressa1586 to gather grounda1593 to make forth1594 to make on1597 to work up1603 perge1607 to work one's (also its) way1609 to pass on1611 to gain ground1625 to make its way1645 vadea1660 propagate1700 to gain one's way1777 further1789 to pull up1829 on1840 to make (up) ground1921 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iv. l. 22 Þenne Concience on his Capul Carieþ forþ Faste. 2. transitive. To take (a person or thing) out and away from a particular point. Sometimes: spec. to take (a dead person) for burial, etc.; cf. main sense 1b and to carry out 1b at Phrasal verbs. Now rare. ΚΠ 1421 in Archæol. Jrnl. (1850) 7 57 Ye saides Th' Rob't and Joh' schall' haue..free entree and issue to care frothe [read forthe]..ye forsaide lymstane and sande. 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) at Libitina They also who were employed to carry forth and bury Corps, were called Libitinarians. 1865 J. Doolittle Social Life Chinese (1867) I. xiii. 337 The condemned man is carried forth to the execution ground in a kind of cage or box. 1931 J. Gavorse Suetonius' Lives Twelve Caesars ii. 115 It was that very number of soldiers of the pretorian guard that carried him forth to lie in state. 2005 C. Bonanos Gods, Heroes, & Philosophers (e-book ed.) The olive branch carried forth as a peace offering survives, metaphorically, to the present day. to carry forward 1. transitive. To cause (something) to progress towards a future state or condition; to maintain or keep up (something); to develop (something) beyond a stage already attained.Cf. to carry on 1 at Phrasal verbs, to carry on 3 at Phrasal verbs. ΚΠ 1653 Faithfull Scout No. 106. 837 So they may..be up and doing every one in their place, in carrying forward the great Work of the most High. 1833 Atkinson's Casket June 259 Nature in carrying forward her ceaseless changes..never produces forms which exhibit mathematical lines and angles. 1920 Amer. Artisan 23 Oct. 37/1 The ability of our Nation to carry forward its traditions of order, progress, and justice. 2001 FourFourTwo Sept. 49/2 We aim to donate £50,000, which goes towards funding three research fellows to carry forward the hospital's pioneering work. 2. transitive. Bookkeeping and Accounting. To transfer (an item) from one account, ledger, etc., to the next; to transfer (a loss, unused credit, etc.) to a future tax period in order to reduce the amount of tax to be paid.Cf. to carry back 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry over 1 at Phrasal verbs, to carry up 5 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures control1422 avouch1539 allocate1551 respond1588 score1592 carry1652 post1707 to carry forward1721 off-reckon1721 O. Ni.a1726 to carry over1745 rule1845 to write down1876 to close off188. qualify1884 accrue1915 net1947 gross1954 strip1980 1721 Particular & Inventory W. Morley (South-Sea Company) 15 Carry forward 16121l. 17s. 10d. 1839 Reply Lockhart's Pamph. 97 Carry forward £41.478 15s. 5d. 1984 M. P. Devereux & C. P. Mayer Corporation Tax i. 10 Surplus deductions which could not be claimed against profits had to be carried forward and set against future profits. 2012 J. W. Mirza Assyrian Dream 389 My instructions were to add each page, carry forward the total to the top of the next page, and so on, until all the pages were done. to carry in transitive. To take or transport (a person or thing) into or inside a place; spec. to bring (corn or another crop) from the field to be stored after harvesting. ΚΠ 1417 in Norfolk Archaeol. (1904) 15 132 (MED) Item, yo carte to Cossey, carying in corne tyll evene. 1625 S. Nettles Answer Selden's Hist. Tithes 147 The fruit of the field, and of the vineyard is called tebuah, because they bring it into the houses, being deriued from a word that signifies to bring or carry in. 1707 A. Cant Serm. 30 Jan. 16 His Sacred Majesty..was carried in before that sanguinary Assembly of King-killers. 1885 T. Greer Mod. Dædalus xvii. 224 As fast as one patient was borne away clean and comfortable,..another was carried in on a stretcher. 1939 Amer. Anthropologist 41 540 If..a woman dies during the growing season, the husband goes to her matrilineal kinsmen and asks to be given the services of one or more of their ‘sisters’ to..carry in the harvest. 2005 Computer Weekly 19 July 33/1 Biometric time and attendance systems are more secure than ID card systems because cards can be swapped, or carried in by colleagues and swiped through the system. to carry off 1. a. transitive. To take or transport (a person or thing) away from a place; to take elsewhere. ΚΠ 1601 Ld. Mountjoy Let. to Cecil 13 Nov. in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. ii. ii. 156 We..made them leaue some of their dead bodies behind them, although we saw them carry many off with them. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 41. ⁋6 Honeycomb..carried off his Handkerchief full of Brushes. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. vii. 182 He seems to have as swift a pair of heels to assist in carrying him off, as any Lazaro in Naples need desire. 1890 Cent. Mag. Feb. 484/1 Two boys struggling at the great sculls in one of the small boats were called by us..and carried us off to look at the outgoing steamer. 1964 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 14 Sept. 1/5 Eyewitnesses said they saw an East German guard being carried off on a stretcher. 2010 H. Davis Clearing 137 Grandpa collected the dishes. ‘Henry, you behave out here,’ he said, carrying the tray off to the kitchen. b. transitive. To remove (excess or unwanted water, fumes, etc.) from a place. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > extract gas or liquid exhaust1540 draina1552 to draw off1594 uncask1594 spring1597 carry1602 tap1602 milka1628 to carry off1677 evacuate1719 drafta1875 aspirate1880 bleed1889 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 185 Our Mills and Locks have most of them back streams and lashers to carry off the water when it is too plentiful. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 253 Mere diluting dissolves and carries off Salts. 1758 R. Dossie Elaboratory laid open i. 48 The fumes may be carried off, by means of the tubulated receiver. 1823 M. Eaton Cook & Housekeeper's Dict. 170/1 A cheap and simple apparatus, for carrying off the waste water and other offensive matter from sinks and drains. 1989 P. Horowitz & W. Hill Art of Electronics (ed. 2) vi. 311/2 A finned metal plate designed to carry off heat. 1999 Dogs in Canada July 108/3 A flat stone..for the fire, with a pot or kettle hanging over it and above this an opening in the tent to carry off some of the smoke. c. transitive. To take (a person or thing) away by force, deception, etc.; to abduct (a person). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] pick?c1300 takec1300 fetch1377 bribec1405 usurpc1412 rapc1415 to rap and rendc1415 embezzle1495 lifta1529 pilfer1532 suffurate1542 convey?1545 mill1567 prig1567 strike1567 lag1573 shave1585 knave1601 twitch1607 cly1610 asport1621 pinch1632 snapa1639 nap1665 panyar1681 to carry off1684 to pick up1687 thievea1695 to gipsy away1696 bone1699 make1699 win1699 magg1762 snatch1766 to make off with1768 snavel1795 feck1809 shake1811 nail1819 geach1821 pull1821 to run off1821 smug1825 nick1826 abduct1831 swag1846 nobble1855 reef1859 snig1862 find1865 to pull off1865 cop1879 jump1879 slock1888 swipe1889 snag1895 rip1904 snitch1904 pole1906 glom1907 boost1912 hot-stuff1914 score1914 clifty1918 to knock off1919 snoop1924 heist1930 hoist1931 rabbit1943 to rip off1967 to have off1974 the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > off or away atbearOE reavec1175 heavea1240 ravishc1330 reachc1330 outbeara1400 trussa1400 remove1459 withberec1500 rapt1571 rear1596 rap1599 to carry off1684 1684 E. Ravenscroft Dame Dobson v. ii. 67 Dame... Your Wifes Kinsman..brought a Constable with him to take her from you, and intends to annul the Marriage. Gill. How! Dame. You have not bedded her. Look to't, you must not let him carry her off. 1778 A. Hamilton Let. 12 Mar. in Papers (1961) I. 438 For punishing Kidnappers or persons who aid the enemy in carrying off the peaceable inhabitants. 1829 T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin xi. 141 The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. 1986 N. A. M. Rodger Wooden World (1988) vi. 243 The ship was anchored off Cape Coast Castle..when Samuel Couchman the first lieutenant seized the ship and carried her off to sea. 1997 L. H. Larson & B. J. Cottrell Gate City (enlarged ed.) iv. 94 Passing policemen..picked the unfortunate man up, placed him in custody, and carried him off to jail. 2. a. transitive. To do (something) successfully; (in later use) spec. to wear (a garment, style of clothing, etc.) successfully; to look good in (something). Also: to cause (something) to be or seem more acceptable or tolerable; to lessen the impact of (something). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (transitive)] > achieve or effect helpc1410 obtain?a1425 procurec1425 practise?a1439 upholdc1450 furnish1477 to bring about1480 to bring to passc1513 conduce1518 contrive1530 to make good1535 moyen1560 effect1581 effectuatea1586 to level out1606 operate1637 to carry offa1640 efficiate1639 work1761 engineer1831 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > make acceptable [verb (transitive)] recommend1582 ingratiatea1635 to carry offa1640 a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat v. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. G4/1 I considered It was a jest, and carried off so quaintly It made me merry: very merry. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 443 They promised their assistance to carry off his impeachment with a mild censure. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. iii. 63 A rapid intellect and ready eloquence may carry off a little impudence. 1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen III. 152 I have not enough diamonds to carry off black velvet. 1919 T. S. Eliot Let. 21 Apr. (1988) I. 285 I take some self-satisfaction in having carried off a tour de force in succeeding with an occupation apparently so incongruous. 2001 Star 6 Jan. 87/3 Britney's boy..manages to carry off classic cool by teaming a smart V-neck with some baggy combats. b. to carry it off. (a) transitive. To be successful in a situation which is difficult or challenging in some way; to give the impression that one is competent or at ease in a particular situation, often despite one's inexperience, difficult feelings, lack of knowledge, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > moral courage > one who braves danger > defy danger (person or thing) [verb] face1570 dare1580 out-countenancec1585 to stand up to1596 outdare1598 to carry it off1663 to take the bull by the horns1711 brave1776 1663 R. Head Hic et Ubique iii. ii. 39 Phant. If thou shu'dst see me as poor as thy self, yet there wilbe a great deal of difference between thee and me. Hic. Prithee why? Phant. Because I have more wit and a better carriage than thou hast to carry it off. 1799 Witch, & Maid of Honour I. 224 Let them snigger and sneer just as much as they like, Bridget will carry it off in defiance. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde i. 8 Frightened too..but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan. 1985 J. Wyndham Love Lessons (1986) iii. 104 ‘You sounded as if you knew all about it!’ ‘Oh I can always carry it off when cornered’. 1996 Nation (N.Y.) 24 June 35/1 What a mating dance of crane shots, dollies, close-ups, medium shots, tilts, cross-cuts..! Bertolucci carries it off with such apparent ease that you feel as if his direction is a force of nature. †(b) transitive. To win the prize; to be victorious in a contest. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win win1297 obtain1441 to go away with it1489 triumph1508 to carry (also get, lose, win, etc.) the day1557 to bear it1602 carry1602 to carry away the bucklers1608 to carry one's point1654 to carry it off1828 to ring the bell1900 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 158 Some of those who think they carry it off through the height of their plumed bonnets and the jingle of their spurs. 3. transitive. Esp. of an illness: to cause (a person) to die; to kill (a person); to be the death of.Cf. to carry away 4 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > cause death [verb (transitive)] to be the death ofOE slayc1000 reavec1230 dissolvec1374 visita1382 extinguish1540 expiate1594 to carry away1603 to carry off1679 devive1869 to settle the number of a person's mess1881 1679 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 19 Sir Jonas Moore..was seized with an ague, and had two or three violent fits, which carried him off. 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 221. ⁋2 A Fever, which..at last carried him off. 1815 R. B. Sheridan Let. 7 Dec. (1966) III. 240 This racking cough which seized me last saturday sennight..seems resolved to..carry me off. 1994 Fortean Times June 16/3 His health was worn away by drugs and alcohol and a brain tumour carried him off at the age of 45. 4. transitive. To win (a prize, sporting title, etc.), esp. easily or effortlessly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > win (any contest or prize) > win (a prize, etc.) to bear awayc1325 getc1330 winc1330 to go away with1489 to carry away1565 carry1570 to bear off?1615 to carry off1680 to take out1976 1680 tr. J.-B. Tavernier Coll. Several Relations & Treat. i. xiii. 45 The Rowers come ashoar with their Captains to kiss the King's Hand, and they that have behav'd themselves most stoutly and nimbly, carry off the Marks of his Bounty. 1747 tr. J. B. Le Blanc Lett. Eng. & French Nations II. lxxx. 303 His lordship, or his worship, whose horse carries off the prize, is rewarded for his care. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism vii. 57 The North Briton carried off the palm. 1937 G. Goodwin in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories (1976) 81 She carried off every prize at the local eisteddfods, and people were saying she should have her voice trained. 2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Mar. 41/1 The Chinese carried off the men's and women's singles titles. to carry on 1. transitive. To maintain or keep up (something); to prevent (something) from stopping. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > continue (an action) [verb (transitive)] i-haldOE to hold fortha1325 sustainc1325 containc1330 continuea1340 maintainc1385 carrya1393 keepc1425 to keep upa1535 to stick by ——1551 to hold on1568 to hold out1595 to carry on1609 subsist1633 to keep at ——1825 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 162 He..carries on the streame of his dispose, Without obseruance, or respect of any. View more context for this quotation 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 32 The Blood will move more weakly, slowly, and rarely, and the Circulation will be carry'd on more rarely. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. iii. 52 The conversation was carried on . View more context for this quotation 1877 L. P. Brockett Cross & Crescent 34 The conflict which has been carried on for nearly three hundred years. 2003 Times (Nexis) 7 Apr. 27 Each year Carlisle Racecourse holds a race for the Bell, carrying on a tradition dating back to at least the 16th century when racing bells were commonly given as prizes. 2. transitive. To engage in or conduct (work, a business, etc.); to participate in (esp. a regular or habitual activity). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > practise or carry on [verb (transitive)] doeOE followOE holda1100 found1340 exercec1374 enhaunta1382 usea1398 proceed1399 apply?c1400 practise?c1430 exercise1467 takea1500 plya1513 enure1549 prosecute1567 inurea1577 manage1579 to stand on ——1599 to carry on1638 cultivate1654 society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer steerc888 leadc1175 guyc1330 guidec1374 governa1382 ministera1382 treat1387 administer1395 dispose1398 skift?a1400 warda1400 solicit1429 to deal with1469 handlea1470 execute1483 convoy?a1513 conveyc1515 mayne1520 to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handa1522 keepa1535 administrate1538 solicitate1547 to dispose of1573 manure1583 carry1600 manage1609 negotiate1619 conduct1632 to carry on1638 mesnage1654 nurse1745 work1841 operate1850 run1857 stage-manage1906 ramrod1920 1638 J. Burroughs Excellency of Gracious Spirit i. ii. 106 Where ones spirit is set right, it doth not onely enable to go on with some comfort in one condition, but in any condition that God calls unto, to carry on the work of that condition with joy. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 305. ¶5 The last War, which had been carried on so successfully. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. v. 44 Besides the battery mentioned above, there are three other forts carrying on for the defence of the harbour, none of which are yet compleated. 1801 M. Edgeworth Prussian Vase in Moral Tales III. 28 His trial must be carried on in open day. 1953 Sussex County Mag. 27 454 Mr. Parsons carried on his business as a gilt worker until his retirement at the age of 77. 2000 Church Times 24 Mar. 13/3 He is looking forward to moving to Cambridgeshire where so much experimental bio-technical work is being carried on. 3. transitive. To continue or develop (something) beyond a stage already attained; to advance (something). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > advance (a proceeding) from previous stage [verb (transitive)] evolve1623 to carry on1648 unroll1829 1648 Mercurius Britanicus No. 13. 97 What a strange impertinent deal of diligence they make use to re-spirit and carry on their lost and shattered designs. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 374 There was another circumstance, which probably assisted to carry on the mistake. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §5. 511 Poetic Satire had become fashionable in Hall..and had been carried on vigorously by George Wither. 1935 Fellowship Mar. 3/1 Pacifism does not renounce the struggle, but carries it on with the more effective weapons of non-violence. 2015 J. Rebanks Shepherd's Life (2016) 99 I'm not just a grandson, I am the one that carries on his life's work. 4. a. intransitive. Originally U.S. To indulge in behaviour regarded as inappropriate or unacceptable; esp. (colloquial) to speak or behave in an excessively angry, excitable, or unreasonable way. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave, conduct, or bear oneself [verb (intransitive)] i-bereeOE workeOE makeOE fere1154 walka1200 steera1250 to take onc1275 fare1340 to fare with oneself1340 containa1375 to let latesa1400 usea1400 dealc1400 rulea1425 act1593 comport1616 carry1650 deport1667 demean1678 behave1721 conduct1754 to carry on1828 the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > be in state of nervous excitement [verb (intransitive)] to take ona1450 seethe1609 trepidate1623 to take on oneself1632 flutter1668 pother1715 to be upon the nettle (also in a nettle)1723 to be nerve all over1778 to be all nerve1819 to be (all) on wires1824 to break up1825 to carry on1828 to be on (occasionally upon or on the) edge1872 faff1874 to have kittens1900 flap1910 to be in, get in(to), a flap1939 to go sparec1942 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 faffle1965 to get one's knickers in a twist1971 to have a canary1971 to wet one's pants1979 tweak1981 the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt, philander, or dally [verb (intransitive)] > engage in flirtation or have an affair to carry on1828 mash1883 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > have illicit intimacy intrigue1710 to carry on1828 the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > show anger [verb (intransitive)] > speak angrily spitc1386 ragea1400 blowc1475 blustera1494 storm?1553 pelt1594 tear1602 fare1603 to speak or look daggers1603 to blow hot coalsc1626 rant1647 scream1775 to pop off1914 to carry on1947 1828 A. Royall Black Bk. II. 27 They romped and squalled, and to use a Yankee phraze, ‘carried on at such a rate, that he and Mrs. C. were greatly annoyed by their rudeness’. 1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing 18 These Legislaters have been carrying on so. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde iv. 37 Stamping with his foot..and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman. 1947 ‘N. Shute’ Chequer Board 4 She don't half carry on about the beer I drink. 2006 Word July 12/1 The public misdemeanours of Pete Doherty, Russell Crowe and Kate Moss can't hold a candle to the way stars used to carry on. b. intransitive. To have an affair or flirtation with someone; to have a romantic or sexual relationship which is regarded as socially unacceptable, esp. because of being conducted outside marriage or alongside another relationship. ΚΠ 1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry iii. 26 With lynx eyes she [sc. the chaperone] notes how Lady Carmine's eldest girl is ‘carrying on’ with young Thriftless. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. v. 88 She and I carried on for a whole season. People talked. 1903 Daily Chron. 19 Feb. 7/5 Plaintiff accused him of ‘carrying on’ with another girl at the same time as he was engaged to her. 2005 Independent on Sunday 10 July 23/1 Old Georg was carrying on with a floozie in her fifties. 5. a. intransitive. Nautical. To continue a course; to continue sailing, or carrying out one's duties on the ship. Frequently in imperative, as a command given by a senior officer. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)] to hold a wayOE to hold forthc1200 to hold ona1225 reignc1300 lasta1325 continuea1340 to continue doing or to doc1384 pursuea1425 perseverec1425 to hold one's wayc1480 prosecute1528 to go on1533 to run on1533 keep1548 to follow on1560 insist1586 to keep on1589 to carry on1832 to carry on1857 string1869 society > armed hostility > military service > serve as a soldier [verb (intransitive)] > come on or off duty > continue or resume duty to carry on1832 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > continue on course to stand on1627 to carry on1832 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 643 Carry on, carry on; reef none, boy, none. 1853 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun in Wks. III. 35 She carried on, as sailors say, under easy sail. 1915 ‘Bartimeus’ Tall Ship i. 14 The ship..began to heel slowly over. The Captain..raised the megaphone to his mouth. ‘Carry on!’ he shouted. ‘Every man for himself.’ 1996 P. O'Brian Yellow Admiral vi. 140 If we carry on till come two bells, and then wear ship and stand east-south-east and half east, we fine, we all right, sir. b. intransitive. Military. To continue following or proceed to follow orders or instructions. Frequently in imperative, as a command given by a senior officer. ΚΠ 1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand in Blackwood's Mag. 198 3 ‘Do you understand my order?’ thundered the Colonel... ‘I do, sir,’ replied Blaikie politely, ‘but—’ ‘Then, for heaven's sake, carry on!’ 1920 Three Hundred & First Engineers iii. ix. 141 Through it all the men ‘carried on’ and accomplished their mission. 1945 Observer 21 Oct. 6/1 (advt.) For thousands of Service men and women the order is ‘carry on’. 2004 D. Hart Favor for FDR 122 ‘Thank you again, Colonel Darby,’ Brock said. ‘It has been a honor to serve with your men.’ Darby just said, ‘Carry on, captain.’ 6. a. intransitive. To continue as before; to continue an activity; (hence) to keep going and make the best of things. ΚΠ 1848 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 9 Dec. 6/5 The general fault with insolvents was, that they carried on until there was nothing left for the creditors. 1939 Poster (Ministry of Information) Keep calm and carry on. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 529/2 She formerly had often felt that she couldn't carry on; now she felt able to manage fairly well. 1985 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Sept. In the country as a whole life carries on. 2015 J. Colgan Summer at Little Beach St. Bakery xiii. 211 Do you know how many failed start-ups I ran before we hit it big?..Nine!..But I didn't care, because I knew I could make it. Then I did make it. Then it all went to shit again... But you carry on! b. intransitive. With with: to continue with an activity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)] to hold a wayOE to hold forthc1200 to hold ona1225 reignc1300 lasta1325 continuea1340 to continue doing or to doc1384 pursuea1425 perseverec1425 to hold one's wayc1480 prosecute1528 to go on1533 to run on1533 keep1548 to follow on1560 insist1586 to keep on1589 to carry on1832 to carry on1857 string1869 1857 Illawarra (Austral.) Mercury 14 Sept. 2/1 At all events, the Ministry have decided in keeping the present House together—that is, we suppose, if they can carry on with it. 1918 Aussie: Austral. Soldiers' Mag. Feb. 2/1 This word ‘Digger’..came to France when the sandgropers gave up digging on the goldfields of W.A. and carried on with it on the battlefields. 1942 R. A. J. Walling Corpse with Eerie Eye vi. 185 You're doing nobly. Carry on with the good work. 1999 A. Hadley Tough Choices 113 Schools are being strongly encouraged to help any pupils who are pregnant to carry on with their studies. c. intransitive. With gerund or verbal noun: to continue doing something. ΚΠ 1885 Glasgow Herald 31 Jan. 7/6 There had not been one [sc. a drought] of such a severe character for 40 years in the field where they carried on working. 1960 I. Jefferies Dignity & Purity xii. 183 She carried on enthusing about cushion covers. 1969 (title of film) Carry on camping. 2020 Gazette (Essex) (Nexis) 29 Jan. The officers..tried to stop the 19-year-old but he carried on walking. 7. intransitive. To continue moving or travelling in a particular direction. Also of a road, path, etc.: to extend in a particular direction. ΚΠ 1906 Boy's Own Paper 14 Apr. 446/1 A third [duck]..carried on until he reached the sea-wall, when he faltered in his flight and pitched amongst a growth of rank grass. 1968 Highway Code 24 If you find that you are heading away from where you want to go, you must carry on until you reach the next exit. 1998 T. Garratt & A. Brown Discovery Road (e-book ed.) These tunnels carry on for miles under the desert. 2007 R. Millward Apples ii. 23 Fairhurst took us down Keith Road near where my house was, but we carried on past the church..and ended up in Acklam. to carry out 1. a. transitive. To remove (something) from a place; to take (something) from one place to another, usually from an indoor place to outside, or from a near place to a further one; to take outside. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away ateec885 withbreidec890 animOE overbearOE to do awayOE flitc1175 reavec1175 takec1175 to have away?a1300 to draw awayc1300 weve13.. to wend awaya1325 withdrawa1325 remuec1325 to carry away1363 to take away1372 waive1377 to long awaya1382 oftakec1390 to draw offa1398 to do froa1400 forflitc1420 amove?a1425 to carry out?a1425 surtrayc1440 surtretec1440 twistc1440 abstract1449 ostea1450 remove1459 ablatea1475 araisea1475 redd1479 dismove1480 diminish?1504 convey1530 alienate1534 retire1536 dimove1540 reversec1540 subtractc1540 submove1542 sublate1548 pare1549 to pull in1549 exempt1553 to shift off1567 retract?1570 renversec1586 aufer1587 to lay offa1593 rear1596 retrench1596 unhearse1596 exemea1600 remote1600 to set off1600 subduct1614 rob1627 extraneize1653 to bring off1656 to pull back1656 draft1742 extract1804 reef1901 ?a1425 (a1400) Brut (Corpus Cambr.) 298 Þe toun..of al þing þat myȝte be bore & caryed out was robbid and despoyled. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 54^v Now carrie out compas, when haruest is donne, where barlie thou sowest, my champion sonne. 1679 H. Croft Short Narr. Discov. College of Jesuits 9 They had carried out and hid in a Pigs-Cot adjoining, about two Horse-loads of Books. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 87 I had the loose Earth to carry out; and which was of more Importance, I had the Seiling to prop up. 1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship vii. 127 Mother used to get up at five in the morning..to sweep the front porch and carry the trash out. 1997 D. Hansen Sole Survivor xv. 174 He gathered up his crayfish pots from their storage place among the ferns behind the sand dune and carried them out onto the jetty. b. transitive. To take (a dead person) for burial, etc. Chiefly with adverbial phrase indicating the way in which a person is taken, esp. in to be carried out feet first (see foot n. and int. Phrases 1g(b)(ii)).Cf. main sense 1b and to carry forth 2 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [verb (transitive)] > carry corpse carry1466 to carry out1526 infera1575 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts v. 6 And the yonge men roose vp..and caryed him out, and buryed him [also in 1611 King James]. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 32 That man..will ere long be taken off from his leggs, lye upon a death-couch, be carried out by Bearers, and consume to grave-gelly as well as we. 1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve xi, in Poems (new ed.) 99 When I have said goodnight for evermore, And ye see me carried out from the threshold of the door. 1998 Hansard Commons (Electronic ed.) 28 Jan. 377 I love this place very much, and I hope to stay here until they carry me out in a box. 2018 Cape Argus (Nexis) 15 May (E1 ed.) 11 We buy a house hoping, maybe, to leave it to our children when we are carried out feet first. c. transitive. Cricket. to carry out one's bat: (of an opening batter) to remain not out at the end of the team’s completed innings; sometimes also used more generally of batters who are not out at the end of an innings; = to carry one's bat at Phrases 11.See also to carry one's bat through at to carry through 3 at Phrasal verbs, and to take out one's bat at take v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > be not out to bring out one's bat1833 to carry one's bat1833 to carry out one's bat1834 to take out one's bat1838 to carry one's bat through1839 1834 Norfolk Chron. 21 June The Norfolk men raised their innings to 216, Fuller Pilch carrying out his bat. 1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xviii. 311 The satisfaction of carrying out his bat for 14. 2011 Kent & Sussex Courier (National ed.) (Nexis) 19 Aug. 74 Harvey carried out his bat for an undefeated 150 (17 fours, two sixes) from 169 balls. †2. transitive. Chiefly in passive. To cause (a person, the mind, the heart, etc.) to be transported by spiritual desire, ecstasy, or other strong emotion. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > transport with rapture or ecstasy [verb (transitive)] ravishc1390 rap1509 extol1526 exalta1533 reave1556 rape1566 rapt?1577 enravish1596 trance1597 to carry out1599 ecstasy1631 translate1631 elevate1634 rapture1636 ecstatize1654 enrapture1740 ecstasiate1823 ecstasize1835 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [verb (transitive)] to carry out1599 1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 6 These things transport, and carrie out the mind. 1658 A. Burgess Doctr. Orig. Sin iv. i. 443 There is no way to cure this..till our hearts be carried out with delight and complacency in heavenly things. 1659 Coll. Several Passages conc. O. Cromwell 13 These were his Requests, wherein his heart was so carried out for God and his People..that at this time hee seems to forget even his own Family. 1792 Let. 5 Feb. in Arminian Mag. (Philadelphia) June (1794) 328 I am so carried out with desire for the welfare and salvation of others, that the flame is almost..too powerful for nature. 3. transitive. To bring (something) to completion or fruition; to bring to a conclusion. Also: to put (something) into action or practice; to cause (something) to be implemented; to undertake. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (transitive)] lasteOE ylastc888 wieldeOE doeOE dreeOE forthOE fremeOE workOE affordOE full-bringc1175 fulfila1225 perfurnisha1325 complishc1374 performc1384 achievea1393 chevisea1400 practic?a1425 exploitc1425 execute1477 furnish1477 through1498 practa1513 enure1549 chare1570 enact1597 act1602 to carry out1608 outcarry1611 celebrate1615 complya1616 peract1621 tide1631 implement1837 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxii. 65 Hardly shall I cary out my side Her husband being aliue. View more context for this quotation 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 117 Henry..proceeded to carry out his father's ultimate intentions. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 371 The law which requires a sentence to be carried out. 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad i. 15 I don't wish to detract from the valuable work carried out by the Uniform Section. 2008 Metro 28 Apr. (London ed.) 16/2 The Taliban admitted it carried out the attack in Kabul. to carry over 1. transitive. Finance and Accounting. To transfer (a sum, balance, etc.) to the next financial or accounting period. Also (Stock Market): to postpone settlement on (an account, shares, etc.) beyond the day on which it is due; to allow (a dealer or broker) to postpone settlement. Also intransitive (of a balance, deficit, etc.): to be transferred.Cf. to carry back 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry forward 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry up 5 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > carry over or pay to delay transfer to carry over1745 contango1900 to give on1928 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures control1422 avouch1539 allocate1551 respond1588 score1592 carry1652 post1707 to carry forward1721 off-reckon1721 O. Ni.a1726 to carry over1745 rule1845 to write down1876 to close off188. qualify1884 accrue1915 net1947 gross1954 strip1980 1745 in W. Fleetwood Chronicon Preciosum (new ed.) App. iii. 17 Carried over 129l. 15s. 09½d. 1854 C. Fenn Eng. & For. Funds 109 Contango is the sum paid per Share or per Cent for carrying over such Shares for a longer period than they were originally bought for. 1880 Standard 15 Dec. The charge for ‘carrying over’ English Railways advanced in the later hours. 1887 Daily News 26 Feb. 6 The smaller brokers and dealers were ‘carried over’ on sufferance. 1911 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 465. 140 Unexpended balances carry over from the first to the second year but lapse at the end of the second fiscal year of the biennium. 1986 Consumer Rep. Sept. 588/3 Balances or deficits in an account carry over from one month to the next. 2017 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 9 Feb. 12 The additional £220 million included..£42.5 million in capital funding and £35 million in financial transactions carried over from the previous budget year. 2. a. transitive. To retain (something) and deal with or apply it in a new situation or context; to transfer. With from, into, or to, indicating the situation or context from or to which something is transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] remuea1325 movea1382 translatea1382 transfer1382 transfigurec1384 removea1387 to turn overa1425 transume1483 to carry about1496 traduce1546 transplant1555 transact1621 transmigrate1635 hand1642 to make over1713 recover1719 to carry over1850 1850 Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. Apr. 41 This prestige of sanctity and reverence was carried over into the Christian creed and practice. 1931 Art Bull. Mar. 24 The artist..was trained to work with the pen, and carried over the technique with which he was most familiar into his painted commissions. 1953 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 15 Aug. 34/2 Mr. Lattimore..carries over into English the irregular prosodic patterns of the Greek. 2006 Why don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? (2007) v. 119 When the telephones acquired push buttons in a grid the ordering of the buttons was carried over from the old telephone dial. b. intransitive. To be transferred to another situation or context. With from, into, or to, indicating the situation or context from or to which something is transferred.In quot. 1911 in the context of a scheme providing a caddy service for local golf courses. ΚΠ 1911 Survey (N.Y.) 7 Oct. 975/2 The caddy influence carries over into another group of those who have never been to the mountains but are prospecting for the chance. 1953 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 15 Aug. 16/2 Rank's theories have carried over..directly into Carl Roger's client-centered therapy. 1966 J. Oliansky Shame, Shame on Johnson Boys ix. 180 Our main problem right now is that we don't have a signature sound, something distinctive about us which would carry over from one type of music to another. 2012 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Jan. A good trader needs to be very assertive, and to have a very quick response. Thing is, that attitude carries over into their interactions with other people. †3. transitive. To cause (an army, regiment, etc.) to switch allegiance from one side in a conflict to another. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > win over procurec1325 to gain over1582 bribe1592 overwork1593 overwin1600 smooth1608 overpersuade1639 spirit1656 over-entreata1661 engage1699 to bring over1724 to draw over1734 conciliate1796 to carry over1855 the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's mind [verb (transitive)] > cause change convert1814 to carry over1855 to turn around1888 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 64 To carry over a regiment or two would do more harm than good. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxii. 718 Marlborough had promised to carry over the army, Russell to carry over the fleet. 1894 C. Dalton Eng. Army Lists II. 214 In the spring of 1689 [he] was detected in a traitorous design to carry over the whole regt. to Lord Dundee. 1911 C. H. Gardiner Centurions of Cent. i. 10 Perhaps, after all, Marlborough was not so bad as he was painted, for at the same time Earl Russell had treasonably offered to carry over the fleet. 4. transitive. To extend (the duration of an event) to a succeeding day or date, esp. owing to unforeseen circumstances; to postpone (an event). ΚΠ 1908 Wright & Ditson's Lawn Tennis Guide 100 Aside from the two days of rain, which necessitated carrying the tournament over until the following week, the National Championships were a great success. 1976 Daily Tel. 29 Nov. 23/1 The Newbury stewards began an inquiry..but, since trainer Mick Easterby was not present, the hearing was carried over until Sandown Park this Friday. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Aug. (Sport section) 2 Surrey were supposed to have played but their Gillette Cup match was carried over because of rain. to carry through 1. transitive. To bring (something) to a successful conclusion: to bring to completion; to put into effect.intransitive in quot. 1608: to lead to an outcome. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] > bring to an end or conclusion > successfully to carry through1597 crown1602 1597 [implied in: F. Bacon Ess. f. 10 A man is an ill husband of his Honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can Honour him. (at carrying n. Compounds 1a)]. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 3 My good intent may carry through it selfe to that full issue for which I raz'd my likenes. View more context for this quotation 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. i, in Wks. (1851) I. 64 In none of our historians do we find..mention of any difficulty in carrying through the measures which were agreeable to the king. 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 67/2 It is by similar means that conservative meetings..may be carried through in every part of the country. 1980 Antiquaries Jrnl. 60 299 Gregory was perhaps the only man who could have carried the scheme through in the teeth of public rage. 2002 T. Nairn Pariah viii. 95 New Labour had decided on an election, [and] carried it through against considerable difficulties. 2. transitive. To help (a person or thing) to overcome a difficult period or situation.Cf. main sense 20. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > following up, through, or prosecution > follow up, through, or out [verb (transitive)] > to the end to go through1548 to set on1596 to set through1600 to carry through1609 to see outc1700 to follow out1762 to see through1828 1609 T. Wilson Expos. Sixt Chapter Hebrewes 58 They may not looke that Christ and his grace will beare and carry them through against all assaults of their sinfull lusts. a1712 W. King tr. P. de la Croix Persian & Turkish Tales (1714) I. 149 Tho' she was assured of his Love, she apprehended his Resolution might not carry him through. 1872 U.S. Insurance Gaz. Apr. 247 Being a large capitalist, he hoped to carry the company through. a1918 R. S. Bourne Hist. Literary Radical (1956) 244 What I come to is a sense of..suddenly finding that a philosophy upon which I had relied to carry us through no longer works. 2006 Athletics Weekly 14 Dec. 9/3 Once I got in the race..the adrenalin kicked in and that carried me through. 3. transitive. Cricket. to carry one's bat through: (of an opening batter) to remain not out at the end of the team’s completed innings; sometimes also used more generally of batters who are not out at the end of an innings; = to carry one's bat at Phrases 11.See also to carry out one's bat at to carry out 1c at Phrasal verbs, and to take out one's bat at take v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > be not out to bring out one's bat1833 to carry one's bat1833 to carry out one's bat1834 to take out one's bat1838 to carry one's bat through1839 1839 Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 4 July The batting of a player by the name of Luff did him great credit, as he went in first and carried his bat through, scoring 37 the first innings. 1986 Times 15 July 38/4 Darwin kept his head and led his side to victory carrying his bat through for 53 not out. 2019 Hitavada (India) (Nexis) 13 Apr. On Friday against Himachal Pradesh in the semi-finals, Jemimah struck a masterly unbeaten 185 carrying her bat through. 4. intransitive. Originally and chiefly North American. to carry through on: to be true to one's word on (something); to deliver on. Later also without on: to do what one has promised or threatened. ΚΠ 1919 Chicago Commerce 27 Dec. 33/1 We did do our duty and..we carried through on it. 1954 J. Thompson Hell of Woman xiv. 106 Mona was a good kid. Anyone could see that she was; and she'd carried through on this deal like a little brick. Doing what she was told. 1979 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 21 Mar. Arab countries have threatened retaliation before but have not carried through. 1998 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 8 Jan. (Final ed.) a8 Finance Minister Martin carried through on his promise to balance the budget. to carry up †1. transitive. To support the weight of (a person or thing) while walking or moving along; to bear. Also: to hold or move (the body) in a particular way (cf. main sense 39). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] to bear upeOE underbearc950 bearOE holdc1000 weighc1200 to hold up1297 upholda1300 sustainc1330 undersetc1330 comforta1382 underbear1382 upbear1390 sustaina1398 upkeepc1412 carrya1425 supporta1425 chargea1500 convey1514 avoke1529 confirm1542 stay1548 to carry up1570 bolster1581 lift1590 upstay1590 atlas1593 sustent1605 statuminatea1628 firm1646 appui1656 establish1664 shoulder1674 to keep up1681 upheave1729 withhold1769 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 105/1 Shee was caryed vp from drowning. 1619 R. West Schoole of Vertue: 2nd Pt. sig. B2^v To carry vp the body faire, is decent, and doth shew A comely grace in any one. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. i. 52 I take it, she that carries vp the Traine, Is that old Noble Lady, Dutchesse of Norfolke. View more context for this quotation 1685 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 340 These six persons following carried up the pall. 2. transitive. to carry up the rear: to be last in a march, procession, etc.; = to bring up the rear at rear adj.² and n.² Phrases 2a. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (transitive)] > be last of a series to carry up the rear1629 tail1835 1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime iii. 17 Wee march forth of the Colledge by two and two, Father Thunder himselfe carrying vp the reare. 1795 G. Macintosh Let. 13 July in G. Macintosh Biogr. Mem. C. Macintosh (1847) 140 Wardrope should appoint Robertson and Laing to carry up the rear, as they can be most depended upon for experience. 1980 P. McLaren Cries from Corridor iii. 150 Candy, who was carrying up the rear, sported a black velvet opera cape and shook a noisy tambourine. †3. transitive. To trace (something) back to a particular time. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [verb (transitive)] > trace back repeat1533 to carry upa1676 a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. ii. 136 He carries up the Egyptian Dynasties before the Flood. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. iv. 75 The feud..is carried up by them to the feud between Joseph and his brethren. 1878 Academy 19 Oct. 373/2 Their cultus was suspected to be of Greek origin.., but is now carried up to the Persian period. 4. transitive. Frequently in passive. To build (a wall or other structure) to a given height; to construct (a building). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > build or construct [verb (transitive)] > continue building to given height to carry up1699 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. viii. 160 The Walls are carried up to a good heighth, and of a considerable thickness. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 80 Men were only Instruments..for carrying up his Spiritual House. 1747 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 61 The value of the Land, & of so much of the Buildings as was carried up before such Notice, should be paid by the Commissioners of the County. 1904 C. F. Mitchell Brickwork & Masonry ii. 78 The base of the corner is extended along the wall, and is racked back as the work is carried up. 1992 G. R. H. Wright Anc. Building in Cyprus iv. 373 The masonry..was carried up to roof level. 5. transitive. Bookkeeping and Accounting. To transfer (an item) from one account, ledger, etc., to the next, or (more generally) from one accounting period to the next.Cf. to carry back 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry forward 2 at Phrasal verbs, to carry over 1 at Phrasal verbs. ΚΠ 1774 Monthly Misc. Suppl. 351/1 (table) Fifth Half-Year. Expences. Rent 100 0. Labour 15 0. Rates 17 10...Carried up £.150 10. 1815 B. Montagu Digest Law Partnership II. 256 (table) Balance carried up 360 19 7. 1890 Regulations conc. Rebate Taxes Tobacco & Snuff (U.S. Treasury Dept.) No. 1391 14 (table) Total... (Carried up to column 7). 2008 M. J. Sterling Business Math for Dummies xv. 210 The ending balance for each month is carried up to the beginning cash balance of the next month. †6. transitive. To bring (a payment) up to an expected level; to bring in line. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > make proportionate (to) > parts of a series (by bringing up) to carry up1817 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. iii. 392 Unable to carry up its payments to the level of the taxation. Compounds C1. As a modifier, designating a container, receptacle, device, etc., in which something may be carried, or which enables carrying.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. ΚΠ 1882 Specif. Means Transportation Paulins Stoves, & Ranges U.S. Army 62 Cruppers, two with carry straps and two with bodies and hip-strap attached. 1959 Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 5 Oct. 7/3 (advt.) Fold-up plastic raincoat with carry pouch. 1987 T. Winton Blood & Water (1993) 157 He wrapped the pink-faced little boy tighter in his blankets and put him in the carry basket. 1996 Glasgow Herald 31 May 16/1 (advt.) Mummy style specialist sleeping bags—with carry sack. Suitable for climbers, back packers and hill walkers. 2012 Independent 31 Oct. 39/3 A play is a living entity; creating it can feel like trying to pack a furious cat into a carry-cage. C2. carry bag n. a bag for carrying something; spec. (a) one for carrying shopping; = carrier bag n.; (b) one designed to hold a specific item so that it can be transported safely. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > carried on shoulder shoulder-bag1912 carry bag1917 tote1959 sling-bag1965 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > carried in hand > paper or plastic, with handle carrier bag1907 carry bag1917 carriera1935 1917 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 16 Oct. (Last ed.) 6/3 A carry bag to take along when one shops or markets, so that you may carry home the little packages, is a true economy. 1986 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 11 Jan. The humble plastic carry bag is moving up-market to become a status symbol in its own right. 1987 T. Conover Coyotes v. 188 Slung over his shoulder was a white costal, the woven-fiber carry-bag of the sierra. 2009 N.Y. Mag. 21 Dec. 152/2 (advt.) Keep the little ones entertained for hours with the Wikki Stix Activity Set... Set includes playboard, idea booklet, plus handy carry-bag. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmas carry carry adj. ΚΠ 1875 Lanc. Gloss. 70 Carry, red, peaty. extracted from carrcarn.³ < n.¹1600n.²1753v.1348 as lemmas
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