0 present participle of carry --
1 to hold something or someone with your hands, arms, or on your back and transport it, him, or her from one place to another: --
Rubbish left on the beach during the day is carried away (= removed) at night by the tide.
Underground cables carry electricity to all parts of the city.
Police think that the body was carried down the river (= was transported by the flow of the river).
The Brooklyn Bridge carries traffic across the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
The bus that was involved in the accident was carrying children to school.
Thieves broke the shop window and carried off (= removed) jewellery worth thousands of pounds.
Robson injured his leg in the second half of the match and had to be carried off.
We only had a small suitcase, so we were able to carry it onto the plane.
2 to have something with you all the time: --
3 to have something as a part, quality, or result: --
US The salesclerk said they didn't carry (= have a supply of) sportswear.
I'm afraid my opinion doesn't carry any weight with (= influence) my boss.
His speech carried so much conviction that I had to agree with him.
All cigarette packets carry a government health warning.
4 to take something from one person or thing and give it to another person or thing: --
Malaria is a disease carried by mosquitoes.
5 to support the weight of something without moving or breaking: --
The number of individual broiler chickens carrying campylobacter within a flock varied from flock to flock.
Such information could be of use in neurobiological research also for selective targeting of virus vectors carrying genes to be delivered to specific neuronal populations.
The sheer fact that most are hourly-paid militates against them carrying out any research at all.
Twigs pruned to 4 cm length and carrying the experimental egg batch were fixed under a dissecting microscope with 16-fold magnification.
Women have heavier workloads than men as they are the main producers of subsistence agriculture while carrying the burden of household work and domestic production.
We validated the code by carrying out convergence studies using various time and space mesh sizes.
He understood the logic of planning together with incorporating the means of carrying out the plan.
All individual ants collected at seed baits carrying seeds were measured.
