Common vs Carry - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between common and carry

is that common is mutual good, shared by more than one while carry is a manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.

As verbs the difference between common and carry

is that common is (obsolete) to communicate (something) while carry is (lb) to lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.

As an adjective common

is mutual; shared by more than one.

common

English

(wikipedia common)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Mutual; shared by more than one.

* , chapter=19

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}

Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke

, title= In the News , volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}

Found in large numbers or in a large quantity.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=Lee A. Groat, title=Gemstones

, volume=100, issue=2, page=128, magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}

Simple, ordinary or vulgar.

* Washington Irving

the honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life

* Shakespeare

This fact was infamous / And ill beseeming any common man, / Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.

* A. Murphy

above the vulgar flight of common souls

She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

(grammar) In some languages, particularly Germanic languages, of the gender originating from the coalescence of the masculine and feminine categories of nouns.

Of or pertaining to uncapitalized nouns in English, i.e., common nouns vs. proper nouns.

Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal, i.e., common name vs. scientific name.

(obsolete) Profane; polluted.

* Bible, Acts x. 15

What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common .

(obsolete) Given to lewd habits; prostitute.

* L'Estrange

a dame who herself was common

Synonyms

* (mutual ): mutual, shared * (usual ): normal, ordinary, standard, usual * (occurring in large numbers or in a large quantity ): widespread * See also

Antonyms

* (mutual ): personal, individual * (usual ): rare, unusual, uncommon * (occurring in large numbers or in a large quantity ): few and far between, rare, uncommon

Noun

(en noun)

Mutual good, shared by more than one.

A tract of land in common ownership; common land.

* {{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)

, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common .}}

The people; the community.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

the weal o' the common

(label) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To communicate (something).

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans, Bible , Luke XXII:

Then entred Satan into Judas, whose syr name was iscariot (which was of the nombre off the twelve) and he went his waye, and commened with the hye prestes and officers, how he wolde betraye hym vnto them.

(obsolete) To converse, talk.

* , II.ix:

So long as Guyon with her commoned , / Vnto the ground she cast her modest eye [...].

* Grafton

Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of.

(obsolete) To have sex.

(obsolete) To participate.

(Sir Thomas More)

(obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.

(Johnson)

(obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

Derived terms

* common name * commonality * common dolphin * commoner * common gender * the common good * common noun * common-or-garden * commonplace * commons * common radish * commonsense * common touch * House of Commons * in common

Statistics

* 1000 English basic words

carry

English

Verb

(ies)

(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."

*: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)

, title= 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.}}

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

To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.

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).

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

(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.

(lb) To have or maintain (something).

(lb) To be transmitted; to travel.

*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).

*, 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.

To hold the head; said of a horse.

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

:(Johnson)

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.

*(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.

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, travel

Antonyms

* (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 stick

Noun

(carries)

A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.

Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don't tire too quickly.

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.

Derived terms

* concealed carry * fireman's carry * full carry * negative carry * open carry * positive carry

Statistics

* 1000 English basic words