carry off
To transport away.
I need a truck to carry off all this furniture.
carry
/ˈkæɹ.ɪ/
verb 5noun 5name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
able, alone, below, excess, hard, upstairs
She carried the heavy boxes upstairs to the bedroom without asking for help.
VERB + CARRY
adjust, don't, expect, landed, let's, monkeys, undaunted, winged
Don't carry that heavy box up the stairs by yourself.
CARRY + NOUN
anything, bag, baggage, bags, discussion, luggage
She carried her bags up the narrow staircase to the apartment.
PREP.
across, from, off, on, out, through
She carried the heavy boxes across the room to the storage closet.
ADV.
only
She could only carry two heavy boxes at a time up the stairs.
Definitions
verb
1
To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
"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."
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.
2
To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
to carry the war from Greece into Asia
to carry an account to the ledger
3
To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
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.
4
To move; to convey using force
5
To lead or guide.
Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.
And he carried away all his cattle […] for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
noun
1
A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
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.
2
A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
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.
3
The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
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?
4
The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
The carry on this trade is 25 basis points per annum.
5
The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
name
1
A surname.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
verb — continue or extend
verb — drink alcohol without showing ill effects
verb — propel
verb — move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands
verb — include as the content
verb — transfer (entries) from one account book to another
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
carry out
To hold while moving it out.
We’ll have to carry the piano out of the shop.
carry on
To continue or proceed as before.
I’ll be gone for a few days, but I hope you will carry on in my absence.
carry one's weight
To contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc.
I think our jobs here are secure as long as we each carry our weight.
carry coals to Newcastle
To do something that is unneeded or redundant.
However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle
Example Bank
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"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."
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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
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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 Sout
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Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don’t tire too quickly.
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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 Be
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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.
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