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carry
English
Etymology
From Middle English carrien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kæ.?i/ or (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /?k?.?i/
- Rhymes: -æri
- Homophones: Carrie, Cary
Verb
carry (third-person singular simple present carries, present participle carrying, simple past and past participle carried)
- (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- 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.
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey using force
- Synonyms: impel, conduct
- to lead or guide.
- Passion and revenge will carry them too far.
- (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- (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.
- (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
- (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- (transitive) To have on one's person.
- To be pregnant (with).
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- the carrying of our main point
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- 2014, Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris, If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of her Children
- Things of little value carry great importance.
- It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.
- 2014, Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris, If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of her Children
- (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- 1702-1704, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion
- He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.
- 1702-1704, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- (gaming) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
- He absolutely carried the game, to the point of killing the entire enemy team by himself.
- (Southern US) to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- Will you carry me to town?
Synonyms
- (lift and bring to somewhere else): bear, move, transport
- (stock, supply): have, keep, stock, supply
- (adopt): adopt, take on, take over
- (have, maintain): have, maintain
- (be transmitted, travel): be transmitted, travel
Antonyms
- (in arithmetic): borrow (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction)
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
carry (plural carries)
- 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.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- 1862, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 10, page 533)
- 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.
- 1862, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 10, page 533)
- (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- (finance) Carried interest.
- (Britain, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Crary
carry From the web:
- what carry blood away from the heart
- what carry blood to the heart
- what carrying capacity
- what carryout is open near me
- what carry oxygenated blood
- what carry out photosynthesis
- what carry deoxygenated blood to the heart
- what carry out means
cause
English
Etymology
From Middle English cause, borrowed from Old French cause (“a cause, a thing”), from Latin causa (“reason, sake, cause”), in Middle English also "a thing". Origin uncertain. See accuse, excuse, recuse, ruse. Displaced native Middle English sake (“cause, reason”) (from Old English sacu (“cause”)), Middle English andweorc, andwork (“matter, cause”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, thing, cause”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA(key): /k??z/, [k?o?z?]
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?z/, [k???z?]
- Rhymes: -??z
- Homophones: caws, 'cause; cores (non-rhotic dialects)
Noun
cause (countable and uncountable, plural causes)
- (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cause
- (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
- Synonyms: grounds, justification
- (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:goal
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
- I did it not for his cause.
- (countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
- (countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- effect
Verb
cause (third-person singular simple present causes, present participle causing, simple past and past participle caused)
- (transitive) To set off an event or action.
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
- (ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
- I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days.
- To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Derived terms
- causation
- causer
Translations
Further reading
- cause at OneLook Dictionary Search
- cause in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- cause in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- -sauce, sauce
Asturian
Verb
cause
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of causar
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koz/
- Homophones: causent, causes
Etymology 1
From Old French cause, borrowed from Classical Latin causa. Compare chose, an inherited doublet.
Noun
cause f (plural causes)
- cause
- Antonym: conséquence
- (law) case (a legal proceeding)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
cause
- inflection of causer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cause” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- sauce, sceau
Italian
Noun
cause f pl
- plural of causa
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French cause.
Noun
cause (plural causes)
- cause
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
- He knew the cause of everich maladye
- He knew the cause of every illness
- He knew the cause of everich maladye
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
Descendants
- English: cause
Norman
Etymology
From Old French cause, borrowed from Latin causa.
Noun
cause f (plural causes)
- (Jersey, law) case
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin causa, whence the inherited chose.
Noun
cause f (oblique plural causes, nominative singular cause, nominative plural causes)
- cause
Descendants
- Middle English: cause
- English: cause
- Middle French: cause
- French: cause
- Norman: cause
Portuguese
Verb
cause
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of causar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of causar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of causar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of causar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kause/, [?kau?.se]
Verb
cause
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of causar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of causar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of causar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of causar.
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