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"If a crime carries a punishment, that is the punishment for committing that crime."
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"Verbs"
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"examples": [
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"text": "The sound of the bells carried for miles."
}
],
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"If a sound carries, it can be heard a long distance away."
],
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{
"text": "He couldn't carry a tune, but he loved to sing."
}
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"If you can carry a tune, you can sing the correct notes."
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"text": "The highest voice carries the melody."
}
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"If one voice or instrument in a group carries the melody, it sings or plays the melody while the others provide harmony."
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"text": "Don't worry if we don't carry the day this year."
}
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"If someone or something carries the day, they win."
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"categories": [
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"examples": [
{
"text": "59% of the votes for approving the budget: The motion carries."
}
],
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"If a suggestion, idea, or proposal is carried or carries, it gets the most votes and wins."
],
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},
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"categories": [
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"If a candidate in an election carries an area, they win in that area."
],
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"If you carry your body or yourself in a certain way, that is the way that you stand or move."
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"categories": [
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"examples": [
{
"text": "He didn't know that she was carrying his child."
}
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"If a woman is carrying a child, she is pregnant."
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"If you carry something too far/to extremes/to excess, you don't stop it at a reasonable time."
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"categories": [
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"If you carry extra pounds/kilograms, you weigh more than you should."
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"categories": [
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"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."
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"categories": [
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"Transitive verbs"
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"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."
}
],
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"If you carry a loss forward, you realize it in a future reporting period."
],
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"categories": [
"Transitive verbs"
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"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."
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"Intransitive verbs",
"Verbs"
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"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."
}
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"If you carry on, you continue doing what you were doing."
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"categories": [
"Intransitive verbs",
"Verbs"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Cindy was always carrying on about how cute her dog was."
}
],
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"If you carry on about something, you talk about it in an annoying way."
],
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"intransitive"
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"categories": [
"Intransitive verbs",
"Verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "They weren't able to carry out the attack because of the weather."
}
],
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"If you carry out something requiring planning, you do it."
],
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"categories": [
"Intransitive verbs",
"Verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Was there anything you learned from that experience that you have carried over into your current job?"
}
],
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"If something carries or is carried over into a new situation, it continues to happen or be useful in the new situation."
],
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"categories": [
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Their love of the game carried them through the difficult times."
}
],
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"If something carries you through, it helps you get to the end."
],
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"categories": [
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],
"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."
],
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"transitive"
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}
],
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"enpr": "kărʹē"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɜ.ri/"
},
{
"sampa": "/\"k{ri/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-carry.ogg",
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}
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}
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"tags": [
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]
},
{
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"1": "carry",
"2": "carries"
},
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"lang_code": "en",
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"categories": [
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"Sports"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "No player in NFL history has ever had that many carries."
}
],
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"A carry is a play in American football where a player holds the ball and runs with it."
],
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"examples": [
{
"text": "The fairway is 15 yards wide and the carry was 370."
}
],
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"The carry is the distance a ball, arrow, bullet, etc. travels."
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"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."
}
],
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"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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],
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}
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