What is the meaning of carry?

noun

• The act of carrying something.

verb

• Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body.
  • usage: "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river"
  • synonyms: transport
• Have with oneself; have on one's person.
  • usage: "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"
  • synonyms: pack, take
• Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.
  • usage: "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"
  • synonyms: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, channel
• Serve as a means for expressing something.
  • usage: "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger"
  • synonyms: convey, express
• Bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure, or responsibility of.
  • usage: "His efforts carried the entire project"; "How many credits is this student carrying"; "We carry a very large mortgage"
• Support or hold in a certain manner.
  • usage: "She holds her head high"; "He carried himself upright"
  • synonyms: hold, bear
• Contain or hold; have within.
  • usage: "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water"
  • synonyms: hold, bear, contain
• Extend to a certain degree.
  • usage: "carry too far"; "She carries her ideas to the extreme"
• Continue or extend.
  • usage: "The civil war carried into the neighboring province"; "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces"
  • synonyms: extend
• Be necessarily associated with or result in or involve.
  • usage: "This crime carries a penalty of five years in prison"
• Win in an election.
  • usage: "The senator carried his home state"
• Include, as on a list.
  • usage: "How many people are carried on the payroll"
• Behave in a certain manner.
  • usage: "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
  • synonyms: behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport
• Have on hand.
  • usage: "Do you carry kerosene heaters"
  • synonyms: stock, stockpile
• Include as the content; broadcast or publicize.
  • usage: "We ran the ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant review"; "All major networks carried the press conference"
  • synonyms: run
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: dribble
• Pass on a communication.
  • usage: "The news was carried to every village in the province"
• Have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence.
  • usage: "This new washer carries a two year guarantee"; "The loan carries a high interest rate"; "this undertaking carries many dangers"; "She carries her mother's genes"; "These bonds carry warrants"; "The restaurant carries an unusual name"
• Be conveyed over a certain distance.
  • usage: "Her voice carries very well in this big opera house"
• Keep up with financial support.
  • usage: "The Federal Government carried the province for many years"
• Have or possess something abstract.
  • usage: "I carry her image in my mind's eye"; "I will carry the secret to my grave"; "I carry these thoughts in the back of my head"; "I carry a lot of life insurance"
• Be equipped with (a mast or sail. )
  • usage: "This boat can only carry a small sail"
• Win approval or support for.
  • usage: "Carry all before one"; "His speech did not sway the voters"
  • synonyms: persuade, sway
• Compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance.
  • usage: "I resent having to carry her all the time"
• Take further or advance.
  • usage: "carry a cause"
• Have on the surface or on the skin.
  • usage: "carry scars"
• Capture after a fight.
  • usage: "The troops carried the town after a brief fight"
• Transfer (entries) from one account book to another.
  • synonyms: post
• Transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication.
  • usage: "put down 5 and carry 2"
• Pursue a line of scent or be a bearer.
  • usage: "the dog was taught to fetch and carry"
• Bear (a crop. )
  • usage: "this land does not carry olives"
• Propel or give impetus to.
  • usage: "The sudden gust of air propelled the ball to the other side of the fence"
• Drink alcohol without showing ill effects.
  • usage: "He can hold his liquor"; "he had drunk more than he could carry"
  • synonyms: hold
• Be able to feed.
  • usage: "This land will carry ten cows to the acre"
• Have a certain range.
  • usage: "This rifle carries for 3, 000 feet"
• Cover a certain distance or advance beyond.
  • usage: "The drive carried to the green"
• Secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions. )
  • usage: "The motion carried easily"
• Be successful in.
  • usage: "She lost the game but carried the match"
• Sing or play against other voices or parts.
  • usage: "He cannot carry a tune"
• Be pregnant with.
  • usage: "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child"
  • synonyms: have a bun in the oven, bear, gestate, expect