Carry
To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.
To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.
To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.
To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.
To get possession of by force; to capture.
To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.
To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns.
To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.
To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.
To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.
To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.
To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.
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Carry Quotations
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
Marilyn Monroe
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Will Rogers
Carry Translations
carry in Afrikaans is dra
carry in Dutch is dragen, voorhebben, voeren, brengen
carry in Finnish is kantaa
carry in French is remportent, remportez, remportons, porter, portez
carry in Latin is transmitto, transporto
carry in Portuguese is carregue
carry in Spanish is sostener
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