Carry vs Pile - What's the difference?
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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.
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, title= 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= (lb) To have on one's "person" (see examples).
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, title= 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.
* (1609-1674)
*: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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A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
(computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition.
(obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
The head of an arrow or spear.
A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
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(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
To drive s into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
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(figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
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A mass formed in layers.
A funeral pile; a pyre.
A large building, or mass of buildings.
* Dryden
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , II.2:
* Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved
A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; — commonly called Volta’s pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
(obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
(figuratively) A list or league
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To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; — often with up; as, to pile up wood.
To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
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, title= To add something to a great number.
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, title= (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
(military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
* (William Cowper)
In transitive terms the difference between carry and pile
is that carry is to have on one's "person" (see examples) while pile is (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.In obsolete terms the difference between carry and pile
is that carry is to get possession of by force; to capture while pile is the reverse (or tails) of a coin.carry
English
Verb
(ies)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
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.}}
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.}}
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
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, travelAntonyms
* (in arithmetic) borrow (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction)Derived terms
* carrier * carry a torch for * carry a tune * carry away * carry back * carry coals to Newcastle * carrycot * carry forward * carriable * carrier * carry off * carry on * carry oneself * carry one's heart on one's sleeve * carry one's weight * carry out * carry over * carry someone's water * carry the ball * carry the bat * carry the can * carry the day * carry the mail * carry the message to Garcia * carry the torch * carry through * carry water for * cash-and-carry * headcarry * speak softly and carry a big stickNoun
(carries)- Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don't tire too quickly.
Derived terms
* concealed carry * fireman's carry * full carry * negative carry * open carry * positive carryStatistics
* 1000 English basic wordspile
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) . Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil.Noun
(en noun)citation, page=68 , passage=All this time I worked very hard [...] and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour everything was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done.}}
Derived terms
* pile bridge * pile cap * pile driver * pile dwelling * pile engine * pile plank * pneumatic pile * screw pileVerb
(pil)Etymology 2
Apparently from pilus.Etymology 3
From (etyl) pile, (pille), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)citation, isbn=1555211224 , page= , passage=I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me.}}
- When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile''', and the annoying guy on the "no" '''pile .
citation, page= , passage=And the moment it thumped into the net, Celtic’s march back to the top of the SPL pile also seemed unstoppable.}}
- a pile of shot
- (Dryden)
- The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.
- The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture
- It was dark when the four-wheeled cab wherein he had brought Avice from the station stood at the entrance to the pile of flats of which Pierston occupied one floor
- Watch Harlequins train and you get some idea of why they are back on top of the pile going into Saturday's rerun of last season's grand final against Leicester.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(pil)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
Sunderland 0-2 Blackpool, passage=But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages. }}
Etymology 4
Partly from (etyl) pil (a variant of peil, .Noun
(en noun)- Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile .
