Betekenis van carrying In het Nederlands

• 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:

  • Would you like me to carry your bag for you?

  • She carried her tired child upstairs to bed.

  • These books are too heavy for me to carry.

  • We only had a small suitcase, so we were able to carry it onto the plane.

  • Robson injured his leg in the second half of the match and had to be carried off.

  • Thieves broke the shop window and carried off (= removed) jewellery worth thousands of pounds.

  • The bus that was involved in the accident was carrying children to school.

  • The Brooklyn Bridge carries traffic across the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan.

  • Police think that the body was carried down the river (= was transported by the flow of the river).

  • Underground cables carry electricity to all parts of the city.

  • Rubbish left on the beach during the day is carried away (= removed) at night by the tide.

• 2 to have something with you all the time:

  • Police officers in Britain do not usually carry guns.

  • figurative He will carry the memory of the accident with him (= will remember the accident) for ever.

• 3 to have something as a part, quality, or result:

  • All cigarette packets carry a government health warning.

  • Our cars carry a twelve-month guarantee.

  • His speech carried so much conviction that I had to agree with him.

  • In some countries, murder carries the death penalty.

  • I'm afraid my opinion doesn't carry any weight with (= influence) my boss.

  • US The salesclerk said they didn't carry (= have a supply of) sportswear.

• 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 weight of the cathedral roof is carried by two rows of pillars.

• 6 to support, keep in operation, or make a success:

  • We can no longer afford to carry people who don't work as hard as they should.

  • Luckily they had a very strong actor in the main part and he managed to carry the whole play (= make a success of it through his own performance).

• 7 to win the support, agreement, or sympathy of a group of people:

  • The bosses' plans to reorganize the company won't succeed unless they can carry the workforce with them.

• 8 to give approval, especially by voting:

  • The motion/proposal/resolution/bill was carried by 210 votes to 160.

• 9 (of a newspaper or radio or television broadcast) to contain particular information:

  • This morning's newspapers all carry the same story on their front page.

• 10 to be able to reach or travel a particular distance:

  • The sound of the explosion carried for miles.

  • The ball carried high into the air and landed the other side of the fence.

• 11 to develop or continue something:

  • Lenin carried Marx's ideas a stage further by putting them into practice.

  • If we carry this argument to its logical conclusion, we realize that further investment is not a good idea.

  • She carries tidiness to extremes/to its limits (= she is too tidy).

  • We must end here, but we can carry today's discussion forward at our next meeting.

  • He always carries his jokes too far (= he continues making jokes when he should have stopped).

• 12 to move your body in a particular way:

  • You can tell she's a dancer from the way that she carries herself.

• 13 to put a number into another column when doing addition

• 14 to be pregnant with a child:

  • It was quite a shock to learn that she was carrying twins.

  • I was enormous when I was carrying Josh.

• 15 in American football, to carry the ball forward across the field, gaining an advantage for your team:

  • Every running back wants to carry the ball.

  • Johnson carried 26 times for 202 yards.