Word: Carrying
How to pronounce: ˈkærɪɪŋ
How to pronounce: ˈkærɪ
Verb
Definitions:
1. Support and move (someone or something) from one place to another.
Example sentences: "Medics were carrying a wounded man on a stretcher"
2. Support the weight of.
Example sentences: "The bridge is capable of carrying even the heaviest loads"
3. (of a sound, ball, missile, etc.) reach a specified point.
Example sentences: "His voice carried clearly across the room"
4. Assume or accept (responsibility or blame)
Example sentences: "They must carry management responsibility for the mess they have got the company into"
5. Have as a feature or consequence.
Example sentences: "Being a combat sport, karate carries with it the risk of injury"
6. Approve (a proposed measure) by a majority of votes.
Example sentences: "The resolution was carried by a two-to-one majority"
7. Transfer (a figure) to an adjacent column during an arithmetical operation (e.g. when a column of digit adds up to more than ten).
Example sentences: "If ever you get a sum bigger than 10, then write down the units digit of the sum and remember to carry anything over into your next pair to add."
Noun
Definitions:
1. An act of carrying something from one place to another.
Example sentences: "We did a carry of equipment from the camp"
2. The range of a gun or similar weapon.
3. The maintenance of an investment position in a securities market, especially with regard to the costs or profits accruing.
Example sentences: "If other short-term interest rates are higher than the current yield, the bond is said to involve a negative carry"
Synonyms:
wearing
holding
undertaking
performing
manual transport
transport
conducting
Synonyms:
bear
wear
incur
spend
execute
accomplish
conduct
effectuate
fulfil
realize
fulfill
run
implement
perform
administer
tear down
pull down
pursue
keep
continue
hold
have
contain
carry on
extend
stay
endure
tolerate
sustain
carry away
take on
adopt
take
capture
take over
draw
bring
relate
entail
involve
encompass
subsume
make
do
haul
lug
tote
transmit
deliver
convey
bring in
postpone
smuggle
move
travel
behave
comport
ferry
manual transport
transport
maintain
attain
get
secure
win
gain
gestate
support
garner
give
impart
pack
bag
cart
stage
Antonyms:
bring
build
bring in
build up
Derivations:
carrier
carriage
carry
carried
carriage
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Carrying in Other Languages...
Spanish: Realización
German: Durchführung
French: Transporter
Italian: Portare
Turkish: Taşıma
