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# carry

«carry» in Mova's school dictionary: **to hold something and take it with you** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (carry, carries, carried, carrying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To carry is to hold something and take it with you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#m1)

2) To carry is to be able to hold or take a load: «The bus carries 40 people». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#m2)

3) In adding, to carry is to move a ten to the next place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#m3)

4) To carry on is to keep going. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

how much something can hold or take; also carrying in addition; in science, blood carries oxygen; phrases «carry on», «carry out» (do), «carry over», «get carried away» (too excited)

### examples

- Each truck can carry 2 tons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#x1)
- She carries 4 bags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#x2)
- How many trips to carry 30 boxes, 5 at a time? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#x3)
- In 28 + 15 you carry 1 ten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#x4)
- Can you help me carry the shopping? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#x5)
- Carry on reading quietly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#x6)
- The wind carried the kite away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#x7)
- Blood carries oxygen around your body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#x8)
- We carried out the experiment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#x9)
- Don't get carried away with the glitter! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/#x10)

### note

A limit per trip: total ÷ per trip, rounded up. Trap: a last trip with fewer is still a trip. Spelling: carry → carries, carried (y to i). Safety: lift heavy things with bent knees.

### In the corpora

- [The silent treatment usually makes things worse, and children should not have to carry messages between upset grown-ups.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/8/)
- [Some restaurants use simple robots, guided by sensors, to carry food to tables.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/15/)
- [If you lose your place, staying calm and carrying on usually works, and school audiences are friendly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/28-the-school-play-auditions-lines-stage-fright/11/)
- [Switching to a new hobby after giving the old one a fair try is a sensible choice, and skills like rhythm carry over.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/13/)
- [Donkeys bray to call other donkeys, and the sound can carry about 3 kilometres across their desert homeland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «carry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.