Usually means: Support or transport someone or something.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word carry:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. carry: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. carry, carry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Carry, carry: Wordnik
  7. carry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Carry, carry: Wiktionary
  9. carry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. carry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. carry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Carry, carry: Dictionary.com
  13. carry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. carry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Carry (arithmetic), Carry (gridiron football), Carry (investment), Carry (name), Carry (song), Carry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Carry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. carry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. carry: Rhymezone
  19. carry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. carry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. carry: Free Dictionary
  22. carry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. carry: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. carry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. carry: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  5. carry: Legal dictionary
  6. Carry (investment), Carry: Financial dictionary
  7. Carry: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. carry: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Carry: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Carry: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. carry, carry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Carry: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Carry: A Few Falconry Terms
  4. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  5. carry: Golfer's Dictionary
  6. Badminton Terms (No longer online)
  7. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
verb:  (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
verb:  (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey using force
verb:  (transitive) To lead or guide.
verb:  (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
verb:  (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
verb:  (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
verb:  (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
verb:  (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).
verb:  (transitive) To have on one’s person.
verb:  To be pregnant (with).
verb:  To have propulsive power; to propel.
verb:  To hold the head; said of a horse.
verb:  (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
verb:  To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle
verb:  To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
verb:  (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
verb:  To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
verb:  (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
verb:  To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
verb:  (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
verb:  (gaming) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
verb:  (Southern US) To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
verb:  (Canada, US) To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
noun:  A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
noun:  A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
noun:  (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
noun:  (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
noun:  (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
noun:  (finance) Carried interest.
noun:  (UK, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.
noun:  A surname.

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