carry

He makes most of the contributions for our entire team on his own.

keoi⁵ jat¹ go³ jan⁴⁻² ke¹ wi⁴ saai³ ngo⁵ dei⁶ seng⁴ tim¹ jan⁴.

佢一個人carry晒我哋成team人。

佢一个人carry晒我哋成team人。

(in group work) to contribute disproportionately; to contribute for others

She's a famous model. She'll do justice to any dress she wears.

keoi⁵ hai⁶ ming⁴ mou⁴ lai⁴ gaa³ wo³, mat¹ je⁵ kwan⁴ dou¹ ke¹ wi⁴ dou³⁻² gaa³ laa¹.

佢係名模嚟㗎喎，乜嘢裙都carry到㗎啦。

佢系名模嚟㗎㖞，乜嘢裙都carry到㗎啦。

To be honest, whether someone is suited to a ponytail depends on age more than how they look

2018, C Lam@Central, quoting 無鬼用的懦夫, 並唔係長髮飄飄先叫靚女 網友：女仔紮馬尾先係世界級 10位女星清純馬尾示範

lou⁵ sat⁶ gong² ke¹ m⁴ ke¹ wi⁴ dou³⁻² maa⁵ mei⁵ tau⁴, hai⁶ tai² nin⁴ gei² do¹ gwo³ tai² joeng⁶⁻²

老實講car唔carry到馬尾頭，係睇年紀多過睇樣

老实讲car唔carry到马尾头，系睇年纪多过睇样

to master; to be suited to (clothing, hairstyle or fashionable items)

to master; to handle well; to have to ability of doing something (songs, talents or skills)

free ride

antonym(s) of “to contribute disproportionately”

/kʰɛː⁵⁵ wiː²¹/

/kʰɛː⁵⁵ wiː²¹/

/kʰɛː⁵⁵ ɹiː²¹/

From English carry or English carry off.


carry

"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."

1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

(transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.

to carry the war from Greece into Asia

to carry an account to the ledger

(transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.

The builders are going to carry the chimney through the roof.

They would have carried the road ten miles further, but ran out of materials.

(transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.

To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.

(transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey using force

Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.

c. 1596-1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, act 5, scene 5:

And he carried away all his cattle […] for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:18:

Passion and revenge will carry them too far.

1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC:

The corner drugstore doesn’t carry his favorite brand of aspirin.

(transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.

To stock or supply (something); to have in store.

I think I can carry Smith’s work while she is out.

(transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.

To adopt (something); take (something) over.

The court carries that motion.

(transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly

To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly

Five and nine are fourteen; carry the one to the tens place.

(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.

Always carry sufficient insurance to protect against a loss.

(transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).

To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).

The sound of the bells carried for miles on the wind.

It might seem easy to hit the head of a barrel at that distance, but either the lads were not expert enough or else the snowballs, being of irregular shapes and rather light, did not carry well. Whatever the cause, the fact remained that the barrel received only a few scattering shots and these on the outer edges of the head.

1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:

(intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.

(transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.

To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.

Nani collected the ball on the halfway line, drifted past Bryan Ruiz, and carried the ball unchallenged 50 yards down the left before picking out Welbeck for a crisp finish from seven yards.

2011 December 21, Tom Rostance, “Fulham 0-5 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:

(transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.

To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.

(intransitive, cricket) For the ball, having been hit in the air, to reach a fielder without touching the ground (whether or not the fielder catches it).

She always carries a purse.

Marsupials carry their young in a pouch

Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.

2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

The doctor said she’s carrying twins.

A gun or mortar carries well.

to carry well, i.e. to hold the head high, with arching neck

The frost[…]caused the fallows and seeds to ‘carry’ a good deal, and they could only hunt very slowly.

(hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.

the carrying of our main point

1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation:

McCloughlin […] makes for the kind of fantasy girl you don't forget when the film is over. Still, she alone is not interesting enough to carry the piece.

1986 February 1, Sarah Schulman, “Lesbian Films: Still Not Enough”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 9:

To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle

The Tories carried the election.

The greater part carries it.

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.

The Town [of Bulloign] was both well fortified, and well manned; yet it was distressed, and ready for an Assault: which if it had been given (as was thought) would have cost much blood; but yet the Town would have been carried in the end.

1622, Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry VII, page 63; republished as Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, The History of the Reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary the First, London: R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, and J. Edwyn, 1676:

But the gallant D’Oyley, landing at the head of his well disciplined band, immediately attacked the Spaniards in their intrenchments, carried the principal fortress by a vigorous assault, destroyed one half of Arnaldo’s forces, and compelled him to return to Cuba with the remainder […]

1803, John Browne Cutting, A Succinct History of Jamaica; published in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, volume 1, London: Longman and Rees, 1803, page xxxvii:

(obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.

To get possession of by force; to capture.

Things of little value carry great importance.

2014, Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris, If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of her Children:

It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.

1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 4, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 16:

To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit

He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.

1702-1704, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion

(reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.

To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.

to carry a life insurance

A merchant is carrying a large stock. A farm carries a mortgage. A broker carries stock for a customer.

To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.

Nobody looked like they were carrying, other than those who had knives strapped to their belts, although with Alaska's new concealed-carry permit, available to anyone who trundled themselves down to the local police station to take the class, someone in this crowd could have a rocket launcher stuffed into their boot and she'd never know it.

2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 72:

(intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.

To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.

He absolutely carried the game, to the point of killing the entire enemy team by himself.

(gaming) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.

To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.

Will you carry me to town?

(Southern US) To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)

A holster can help you carry in confidence, knowing that your weapon is secure and close at hand.

(Canada, US) To bear a firearm, such as a gun.

en-verb

carry (third-person singular simple present carries, present participle carrying, simple past and past participle carried)

carries (present singular third-person)
carrying (participle present)
carried (participle past)
carried (past)

borrow

the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

one can't carry two watermelons under one arm

→ Cantonese: carry

tīhei

on the back but held in place with hands

From Middle English carrien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.

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Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”)


carry

Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don’t tire too quickly.

When he and his Cincinnati Bengal playmates were done with the AFC’s best defense, that of the New York-New Jersey Jets, he had done Supermannish damage — 30 carries, 139 yards and two TDs — as the Bengals won, 36-19.

1988 October 10, Gary Nuhn, “Bengals put Jets, ghosts of ’87 to rest”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 112, number 31, Dayton, Ohio, page 1-B:

A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.

Undrowned, unducked, as safe from the perils of the broad lake as we had come out of the defiles of the rapids, we landed at the carry below the dam at the lake’s outlet.

1862, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 10, page 533:

A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.

On paper, simply add the carry to the next addition; that is, $B2 + $9C + 1. That’s fine for paper, but how is it done by computer?

1988, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor, page 45:

(computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

The carry on this trade is 25 basis points per annum.

(finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.

(golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.

شيل

a manner of transporting or lifting something