to carry
- verb
- /ˈkæri/
- Box 2 lists drugs and drug combinations that carry a risk of hypoglycaemia.
- carry messages
- carry the voice
- carry the sound
The strong force carried by gluons doesn't work that way.
- The strong force carried by gluons doesn't work that way.
- So as you let that flow of breath, it will carry the thought to the audience.
Examples
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The technician explained how the wires in the speaker carry sound from the amplifier to the speakers.
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Carry a message for me.
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And now where do you carry it?
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What are some of the ways that we're carrying things from the past?
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And remember, these are electrons that carry current, right?
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And who's at risk of carrying the virus again.
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He's carrying a virus he created, Chimera, and the cure for that virus, Bellerophon.
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The deer tick, Ixodes scapularis, carries Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.
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Studies show that mosquitoes can carry diseases such as malaria and dengue fever to humans.
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The ancient trade routes once carried valuable information and goods between distant civilizations.
Synonyms
To give something to another person
To move people or goods from one place to another, often by vehicle
To send information, ideas, or feelings to someone
To send something from one thing to another, for example a message or disease
To give something to another person, often information or a message
To direct feelings, energy, or money toward a goal
To spread information or documents among people
To receive and then pass on a message or signal
Give news, a message, or something you received to another person
To allow heat or electricity to pass through something
Make information spread among many people
Pass a disease from one person or animal to another
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To support someone and do things for them without asking questions
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To continue a pregnancy until the baby is fully developed and ready to be born
- Specialized
To move something unused from one period to the next so it can still be used
- Informal
Support or defend someone in a group, often without getting anything
- Specialized
Subtract a loss or unused tax credit from the previous year's taxable income to reduce tax for that year
- Informal
Have problems from the past that still affect your feelings or actions
Compounds
- Specialized
Using skill or knowledge from one situation in another similar situation
- Specialized
A way of carrying a person over your shoulders to move them quickly
- Specialized
An amount of profit or loss that a company moves from a past financial period to the next period
How Effective
Surface Forms
Etymology
Carry began as moving things from one place to another, and that same idea works for sound, information, or disease that moves between places or people. So, when a voice or signal 'carries', it travels or is sent from one place to another.