different between enact vs carry_out

English

Etymology

From Middle English enacten, from en-, from Old French en- (“to cause to be”), from Latin in- (“in”) and Old French acte (“perform, do”), from Latin actum, past participle of ago (“set in motion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nækt/
• Rhymes: -ækt

Verb

enact (third-person singular simple present enacts, present participle enacting, simple past and past participle enacted)

1. (transitive, law) to make (a bill) into law
2. (transitive) to act the part of; to play
3. (transitive) to do; to effect

Derived terms

Related terms

• act

Translations

Noun

enact

1. (obsolete) purpose; determination

English

Pronunciation

Verb

carry out (third-person singular simple present carries out, present participle carrying out, simple past and past participle carried out)

1. (transitive) To hold while moving it out.

   We’ll have to carry the piano out of the shop.

   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture-books and a lot of rubbish, and carried out to the end of the garden behind the fowl-house.

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To fulfill.

   She finally carried out her lifelong ambition when she appeared in a Hollywood blockbuster.

   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow. Everything was arranged, and now it only remained to carry out the doctor's orders.
3. (transitive) To execute or perform; to put into operation.

Related terms

• carryout
• carry off
• carry through

Translations

Further reading

• carry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• carry out in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• curatory