carry
- Verb. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- Verb. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
- Verb. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- Verb. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly; as, to carry a motion.
- Verb. (transitive) (arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
- Verb. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
- Verb. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- Verb. (transitive, nautical) to capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- Verb. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- Noun. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- Noun. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition.
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