Verb

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(lb) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.

*1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Ch.23:

*:"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."

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*: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.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)

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To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.

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To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.

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To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.

*(Bible), (w) xxxi.18

*:He carried away all his cattle.

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:Passion and revenge will carry them too far.

(lb) To stock or supply (something).

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(lb) To adopt (something); take (something) over.

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(lb) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly; as, to carry a motion.

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.

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(lb) To have or maintain (something).

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(lb) To be transmitted; to travel.

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*1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Ch.1:

*:It might seem easy to hit the head of a barrel at that distance, but either the lads were not expert enough or else the snowballs, being of irregular shapes and rather light, did not carry well. Whatever the cause, the fact remained that the barrel received only a few scattering shots and these on the outer edges of the head.

To insult, to diss.

To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.

To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 21, author=Tom Rostance, work=BBC Sport

, title= Fulham 0-5 Man Utd , passage=Nani collected the ball on the halfway line, drifted past Bryan Ruiz, and carried the ball unchallenged 50 yards down the left before picking out Welbeck for a crisp finish from seven yards.}}

(lb) To have on one's "person" (see examples).

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*, chapter=10

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.

To have propulsive power; to propel.

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To hold the head; said of a horse.

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(lb) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.

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To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win.

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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:The greater part carries it.

*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:the carrying of our main point

(lb) To get possession of by force; to capture.

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:The town would have been carried in the end.

To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.

*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)

*:He thought it carried something of argument in it.

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.

(lb) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.

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*:He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.

To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.

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Verb

(en verb)

To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

Don't pick at that scab.

He picked his nose.

To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.

It's time to pick the tomatoes.

To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.

She picked flowers in the meadow.

to pick feathers from a fowl

To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.

to pick rags

To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.

to pick''' the teeth; to '''pick''' a bone; to '''pick''' a goose; to '''pick a pocket

* Shakespeare

Did you pick Master Slender's purse?

* Cowper

He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems / With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet.

To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.

I'll pick the one with the nicest name.

(cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.

He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.

(music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.

He picked a tune on his banjo.

To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.

To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

* Dryden

Why stand'st thou picking ? Is thy palate sore?

To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

To steal; to pilfer.

* Book of Common Prayer

to keep my hands from picking and stealing

(obsolete) To throw; to pitch.

* Shakespeare

as high as I could pick my lance

(dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.