different between ledger vs carryover

English

Etymology

From Middle English lygger, ligger, leger (“large breviary; beam, plank; dweller, inhabitant”), from leggen, liggen, leyen, variants of l?en (“to lie down; to bow, kneel, prostrate; to die; to be located (somewhere); to remain in place, stay”), from Old English li??an (“to lie down; to be situated”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie down”). The word is cognate with Dutch legger (“daybook; layer”) (from leggen (“to lay”), liggen (“to lie down”)), and is related to English ledge, lie (“to be prostrate”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?d??/
• Rhymes: -?d??(?)
• Hyphenation: led?ger

Noun

ledger (plural ledgers)

1. A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.
2. A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.
   1. (cryptocurrencies) A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
3. A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
4. (accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
5. (construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.

   Synonym: ligger
6. (fishing) Short for ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or ledger line (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).

Alternative forms

• leidger, leiger (obsolete)
• leger (obsolete)

Hyponyms

• distributed ledger
• nominal ledger
• sales ledger

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ledger (third-person singular simple present ledgers, present participle ledgering, simple past and past participle ledgered)

1. (transitive) To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger.
2. (transitive, fishing) To use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing.
3. (intransitive, fishing) To engage in bottom fishing.

Alternative forms

• leger

Translations

See also

• book of original entry

Notes

References

Further reading

• ledger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ledger stone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ledger in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• gelder, red-leg, redleg

English

Etymology

carry +? over

Noun

carryover (countable and uncountable, plural carryovers)

1. Something whose duration has been extended or that has been transferred to another time.
2. An amount, especially a sum of money, transferred to a new column in a ledger, or applied to a later time.
   • 1980, Daniel T. Morrow, The Economics of the International Stockholding of Wheat

     First, as a general rule, carryover stocks are, held in countries that have lower carrying costs, which are probably exporting countries because they enjoy lower prices.

3. The damaging condition where water droplets are carried out of a steam boiler along with the dry steam.

Derived terms

• HCO: hearing carryover

Anagrams

• overcarry