"carry" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carry",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carries",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carrying",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "carr",
        "2": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Let me carry those bags in for you."
        },
        {
          "text": "We walked through the trees, picked some apples, and carried them to the water."
        },
        {
          "text": "He carried her out of the bathroom and dropped her onto the bed."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry something, you lift it up and move it to another place."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-pU4MVgqp",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A plane carrying 155 people crashed into the Hudson River."
        },
        {
          "text": "As the ship carried her across the sea, she studied the map of Europe."
        },
        {
          "text": "He hired a truck to carry beds, clothes, and food."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a vehicle carries people or things, it moves them from one place to another."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-JflzEZKu",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The main line carrying cold water to the house can be as small as one inch in diameter."
        },
        {
          "text": "It's the white plastic pipe that carries away the water when you empty the bathtub."
        },
        {
          "text": "One digital cable line could carry hundreds of channels of video, several phone calls and an interactive line for playing games or tapping data bases all at the same time."
        },
        {
          "text": "The moon has an orbit that carries it around the earth about once a month."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a path, such as a river bed, a wire, or a hose carries something somewhere, the thing travels along the path."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-jINl0Wyf",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The river carried the leaves under the bridge."
        },
        {
          "text": "Her voice was carried off by the wind."
        },
        {
          "text": "The smoke from the fire filled the air, carried on the breeze."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If moving water or air carries something, it moves it."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-oMM2ai6d",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Sorry, I don't carry a watch."
        },
        {
          "text": "Outside the country, you must carry your passport at all time."
        },
        {
          "text": "He sat back down on his chair and pulled out the pack of cigarettes he carried in his shirt pocket."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry something, you usually have it with you."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-wRgFry-S",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Those ideas now carry almost no value."
        },
        {
          "text": "Certain foods carry with them the danger of heart disease."
        },
        {
          "text": "Elias's vote carried a lot of weight. (=it was important)"
        },
        {
          "text": "This medicine carries with it the potential to help millions of people."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something carries a quality, it has it."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-eVXHHO5S",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The website carried a video showing policemen beating up children."
        },
        {
          "text": "I couldn't find a channel that carried the hockey game."
        },
        {
          "text": "At 4:00, we'll be carrying the president's speech live."
        },
        {
          "text": "TV stations are not allowed to carry beer advertisements."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If the media carries some news, advertisement, or show, it prints it or puts it on TV or radio."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-L5vmLrD2",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The drug now carries a warning that it should not be given to children."
        },
        {
          "text": "The sign carried the words: Toronto, 150 km."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something carries some information, the information is printed on it."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-U4H42-KF",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My local supermarket doesn't carry my favorite brand of ice cream."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a store carries something, they have it available to buy."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-QLcoBXu8",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In a fire, the wall are not going to be able to carry the load and the house will collapse."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something unmoving carries a weight or load, it supports it, keeping it up."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-Q9zDMnlw",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Schools are increasing the amount of insurance they carry to protect themselves."
        },
        {
          "text": "This American-made product carries a two-year warranty."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry insurance, you have it in case of a loss."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-yqhNlku0",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Most people who carry the virus never get sick."
        },
        {
          "text": "Flies carry diseases that can get passed on to people and animals."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry a disease, you can give it to other people."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-GpszreZ8",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Teens sometimes get carried away with buying stuff."
        },
        {
          "text": "Everyone seemed to be carried away with talk of freedom."
        },
        {
          "text": "I just wanted to hold you, but I got carried away."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you get/are carried away, you lose control of yourself because you are so happy, angry, etc."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-gKldTnFl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Violating the law carries a penalty of up to five years in prison and a $50,000 fine."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a crime carries a punishment, that is the punishment for committing that crime."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-4qDOBqc4",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Verbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The sound of the bells carried for miles."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a sound carries, it can be heard a long distance away."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-RXLxDTUj",
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He couldn't carry a tune, but he loved to sing."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you can carry a tune, you can sing the correct notes."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-gfEK6b0i",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The highest voice carries the melody."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If one voice or instrument in a group carries the melody, it sings or plays the melody while the others provide harmony."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-6M8glQuW",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't worry if we don't carry the day this year."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If someone or something carries the day, they win."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-hyLGBaOL",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "59% of the votes for approving the budget: The motion carries."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a suggestion, idea, or proposal is carried or carries, it gets the most votes and wins."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-c8JyaDS2",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive",
        "usually passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "If a candidate in an election carries an area, they win in that area."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-smNz~3UD",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry your body or yourself in a certain way, that is the way that you stand or move."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-5Ex~795s",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He didn't know that she was carrying his child."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a woman is carrying a child, she is pregnant."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-ZCSeLFbm",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry something too far/to extremes/to excess, you don't stop it at a reasonable time."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-unXqLRZl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry extra pounds/kilograms, you weigh more than you should."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-L6SViqnN",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Seven times eight is fifty six, carry five. Seven times nine is sixty three, plus five is sixty eight. Six hundred eighty six."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry a number during addition or multiplication, you add it to the column on the left."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-paIVDOF0",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "If your net capital loss is more than this limit, you can carry the loss forward to later years."
        },
        {
          "text": "if several unprofitable years follow, the opportunity to carry forward the loss will be gone."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry a loss forward, you realize it in a future reporting period."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-ejT0Xxzi",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive & intransitive",
        "accounting"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They tried, but they just weren't good enough musicians to carry it off."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry something off, you do it successfully."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-Q8Z6c7MD",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive",
        "accounting"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Verbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We want to carry on doing this for the next five years."
        },
        {
          "text": "I'm not sure that was, but let's just carry on as usual."
        },
        {
          "text": "She's carrying on long conversations with people who aren't there."
        },
        {
          "text": "Come on, lets carry on with the game."
        },
        {
          "text": "She carried on down the road without stopping until he came to the edge of the village."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry on, you continue doing what you were doing."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-TKl-lwG0",
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Verbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Cindy was always carrying on about how cute her dog was."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry on about something, you talk about it in an annoying way."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-DooX5HZB",
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Verbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They weren't able to carry out the attack because of the weather."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry out something requiring planning, you do it."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-q7QUZ7JB",
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Verbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Was there anything you learned from that experience that you have carried over into your current job?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something carries or is carried over into a new situation, it continues to happen or be useful in the new situation."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-ZBEz7cL1",
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Their love of the game carried them through the difficult times."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something carries you through, it helps you get to the end."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-f7ye4oAx",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Once you have an idea, you've got to carry it through all the way."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry something through, you complete it."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-verb-TSW7kr5G",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "kărʹē"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɜ.ri/"
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/\"k{ri/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-carry.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "carry"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carry",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "carry",
        "2": "carries"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sports",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "No player in NFL history has ever had that many carries."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A carry is a play in American football where a player holds the ball and runs with it."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-noun-Bdr6Ca1a",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sports",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The fairway is 15 yards wide and the carry was 370."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The carry is the distance a ball, arrow, bullet, etc. travels."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-noun-8vo9Ko6f",
      "raw_tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He picked her up and put her over his shoulder in a fireman's carry,"
        },
        {
          "text": "Lifesavers must be able to tow a person of their own weight ten yards by each of the following methods: (a) head carry, using two arms and swimming on back; (b) under-arm carry, using two hands and swimming on back; (c) cross-chest carry, using one arm and side stroke."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A carry is a way of moving somebody from one place to another."
      ],
      "id": "simple-carry-en-noun-qcMiqKE8",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "kărʹē"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɜ.ri/"
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/\"k{ri/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-carry.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "carry"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carry",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carries",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carrying",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "carr",
        "2": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Let me carry those bags in for you."
        },
        {
          "text": "We walked through the trees, picked some apples, and carried them to the water."
        },
        {
          "text": "He carried her out of the bathroom and dropped her onto the bed."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry something, you lift it up and move it to another place."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A plane carrying 155 people crashed into the Hudson River."
        },
        {
          "text": "As the ship carried her across the sea, she studied the map of Europe."
        },
        {
          "text": "He hired a truck to carry beds, clothes, and food."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a vehicle carries people or things, it moves them from one place to another."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The main line carrying cold water to the house can be as small as one inch in diameter."
        },
        {
          "text": "It's the white plastic pipe that carries away the water when you empty the bathtub."
        },
        {
          "text": "One digital cable line could carry hundreds of channels of video, several phone calls and an interactive line for playing games or tapping data bases all at the same time."
        },
        {
          "text": "The moon has an orbit that carries it around the earth about once a month."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a path, such as a river bed, a wire, or a hose carries something somewhere, the thing travels along the path."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The river carried the leaves under the bridge."
        },
        {
          "text": "Her voice was carried off by the wind."
        },
        {
          "text": "The smoke from the fire filled the air, carried on the breeze."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If moving water or air carries something, it moves it."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Sorry, I don't carry a watch."
        },
        {
          "text": "Outside the country, you must carry your passport at all time."
        },
        {
          "text": "He sat back down on his chair and pulled out the pack of cigarettes he carried in his shirt pocket."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry something, you usually have it with you."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Those ideas now carry almost no value."
        },
        {
          "text": "Certain foods carry with them the danger of heart disease."
        },
        {
          "text": "Elias's vote carried a lot of weight. (=it was important)"
        },
        {
          "text": "This medicine carries with it the potential to help millions of people."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something carries a quality, it has it."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The website carried a video showing policemen beating up children."
        },
        {
          "text": "I couldn't find a channel that carried the hockey game."
        },
        {
          "text": "At 4:00, we'll be carrying the president's speech live."
        },
        {
          "text": "TV stations are not allowed to carry beer advertisements."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If the media carries some news, advertisement, or show, it prints it or puts it on TV or radio."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The drug now carries a warning that it should not be given to children."
        },
        {
          "text": "The sign carried the words: Toronto, 150 km."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something carries some information, the information is printed on it."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My local supermarket doesn't carry my favorite brand of ice cream."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a store carries something, they have it available to buy."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In a fire, the wall are not going to be able to carry the load and the house will collapse."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something unmoving carries a weight or load, it supports it, keeping it up."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Schools are increasing the amount of insurance they carry to protect themselves."
        },
        {
          "text": "This American-made product carries a two-year warranty."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry insurance, you have it in case of a loss."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Most people who carry the virus never get sick."
        },
        {
          "text": "Flies carry diseases that can get passed on to people and animals."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry a disease, you can give it to other people."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Teens sometimes get carried away with buying stuff."
        },
        {
          "text": "Everyone seemed to be carried away with talk of freedom."
        },
        {
          "text": "I just wanted to hold you, but I got carried away."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you get/are carried away, you lose control of yourself because you are so happy, angry, etc."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Violating the law carries a penalty of up to five years in prison and a $50,000 fine."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a crime carries a punishment, that is the punishment for committing that crime."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The sound of the bells carried for miles."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a sound carries, it can be heard a long distance away."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He couldn't carry a tune, but he loved to sing."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you can carry a tune, you can sing the correct notes."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The highest voice carries the melody."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If one voice or instrument in a group carries the melody, it sings or plays the melody while the others provide harmony."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't worry if we don't carry the day this year."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If someone or something carries the day, they win."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "59% of the votes for approving the budget: The motion carries."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a suggestion, idea, or proposal is carried or carries, it gets the most votes and wins."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive",
        "usually passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a candidate in an election carries an area, they win in that area."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry your body or yourself in a certain way, that is the way that you stand or move."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He didn't know that she was carrying his child."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a woman is carrying a child, she is pregnant."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry something too far/to extremes/to excess, you don't stop it at a reasonable time."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry extra pounds/kilograms, you weigh more than you should."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Seven times eight is fifty six, carry five. Seven times nine is sixty three, plus five is sixty eight. Six hundred eighty six."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry a number during addition or multiplication, you add it to the column on the left."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "If your net capital loss is more than this limit, you can carry the loss forward to later years."
        },
        {
          "text": "if several unprofitable years follow, the opportunity to carry forward the loss will be gone."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry a loss forward, you realize it in a future reporting period."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive & intransitive",
        "accounting"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They tried, but they just weren't good enough musicians to carry it off."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry something off, you do it successfully."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive",
        "accounting"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We want to carry on doing this for the next five years."
        },
        {
          "text": "I'm not sure that was, but let's just carry on as usual."
        },
        {
          "text": "She's carrying on long conversations with people who aren't there."
        },
        {
          "text": "Come on, lets carry on with the game."
        },
        {
          "text": "She carried on down the road without stopping until he came to the edge of the village."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry on, you continue doing what you were doing."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Cindy was always carrying on about how cute her dog was."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry on about something, you talk about it in an annoying way."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They weren't able to carry out the attack because of the weather."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry out something requiring planning, you do it."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Was there anything you learned from that experience that you have carried over into your current job?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something carries or is carried over into a new situation, it continues to happen or be useful in the new situation."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Their love of the game carried them through the difficult times."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something carries you through, it helps you get to the end."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Once you have an idea, you've got to carry it through all the way."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you carry something through, you complete it."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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      "enpr": "kărʹē"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɜ.ri/"
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/\"k{ri/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-carry.ogg",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carry",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "carry",
        "2": "carries"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns",
        "Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "No player in NFL history has ever had that many carries."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A carry is a play in American football where a player holds the ball and runs with it."
      ],
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        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Sports",
        "Uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The fairway is 15 yards wide and the carry was 370."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The carry is the distance a ball, arrow, bullet, etc. travels."
      ],
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        "uncountable",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He picked her up and put her over his shoulder in a fireman's carry,"
        },
        {
          "text": "Lifesavers must be able to tow a person of their own weight ten yards by each of the following methods: (a) head carry, using two arms and swimming on back; (b) under-arm carry, using two hands and swimming on back; (c) cross-chest carry, using one arm and side stroke."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A carry is a way of moving somebody from one place to another."
      ],
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      ]
    }
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      "enpr": "kărʹē"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɜ.ri/"
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}