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• carry — car|ry1 W1S1 [ˈkæri] v past tense and past participle carried present participle carrying third person singular carries ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(lift and take)¦ 2¦(vehicle/ship/plane)¦ 3¦(pipe/wire etc)¦ 4¦(move something)¦ 5¦(have with you)¦ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• carry — 1 verb carried, carrying 1 LIFT AND TAKE (T) to take something somewhere in your hands or arms, on your back etc: A porter helped me carry my luggage. | Let me carry that for you. | carry sth around/out/to etc: I m not carrying it around all day! …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• carry — car|ry1 [ keri ] verb *** ▸ 1 take someone/something somewhere ▸ 2 have goods for sale ▸ 3 spread disease ▸ 4 always have a feeling ▸ 5 publish/broadcast something ▸ 6 have a guarantee ▸ 7 win election ▸ 8 do someone else s work ▸ 9 lead to… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• carry */*/*/ — UK [ˈkærɪ] / US [ˈkerɪ] verb Word forms carry : present tense I/you/we/they carry he/she/it carries present participle carrying past tense carried past participle carried 1) [transitive] to hold someone or something using your hands, arms, or… …   English dictionary

• carry — [[t]kæ̱ri[/t]] ♦ carries, carrying, carried 1) VERB If you carry something, you take it with you, holding it so that it does not touch the ground. [V n] He was carrying a briefcase... [V n prep/adv] He carried the plate through to the dining room …   English dictionary

• carry*/*/*/ — [ˈkæri] verb 1) [T] to hold someone or something using your hands, arms, or body and take them somewhere Do you mind carrying this box for me?[/ex] Sarah carried her cup of coffee back to her desk.[/ex] Luke was carrying the boy on his… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• Extremes (novel) — infobox Book | name = Extremes title orig = translator = image caption = author = Kristine Kathryn Rusch illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = The Retrieval Agent genre = Science fiction, Detective… …   Wikipedia

• go to extremes — 1. To go too far 2. To use extreme measures • • • Main Entry: ↑extreme * * * go to extremes take/​carry something to extremes phrase to do something much more than is usual or reasonable This is political correctness taken to extremes. Thesaurus …   Useful english dictionary

• go to extremes — Synonyms and related words: aggrandize, amplify, ballyhoo, build up, burlesque, caricature, carry too far, draw the longbow, exaggerate, exhaust, go overboard, go too far, hyperbolize, know no bounds, lay it on, magnify, make much of, overact,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• overdo — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. overtask, overstrain, etc.; go too far, carry to extremes. See exaggeration. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To do too much] Syn. magnify, pile up, pile on, amplify, overestimate, overreach, stretch, overvalue …   English dictionary for students

• United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …   Universalium