Loaded vs Carried - What's the difference?
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(load)
Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
* 1737 , The Gentleman's Magazine , Volume 7,
* 1812 , Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , Volume 8,
* 1888 , , XIII: Theoretical writings on Architecture,
* 1913 , ,
* 2011 , Matt Rogan, Martin Rogan, Britain and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Legacy ,
(of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber; armed.
(slang) Possessing great wealth.
(slang) Drunk.
(baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
(gaming, of a die or dice, also used figuratively) Weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
* 1996 , Elaine Creith, Undressing Lesbian Sex ,
* 1997 , , Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography ,
* 2009 , Michèle Lowrie, Horace: Odes and Epodes ,
(of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
(of a word or phrase) Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.
* 2993 , L. Susan Bond, Contemporary African American Preaching: Diversity in Theory and Style ,
Equipped with numerous options; deluxe.
(carry)
(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.
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, 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.
:(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.
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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.
As verbs the difference between loaded and carried
is that loaded is (load) while carried is (carry).As an adjective loaded
is burdened by some heavy load; packed.loaded
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Let's leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
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- With regard to France'' and ''Holland , therefore, I mu?t think, Sir, and it has always been the general Opinion, that the Subjects of each are more loaded and more oppre??ed with Taxes and Exci?es than the People of this Kingdom ;
page 118,
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- and for that reason the arches of the vaults of any apse should never be more loaded than the arches of the principal building.
- What is known concerning supernatural matters is a sort of common deposit, guarded by everybody, and handed down without any intervention on the part of an authority; fuller in one place, scantier in another, or, again, more loaded with external symbols according to the intelligence, the temperament, the organization, the habits, and the manner of the people's life.
page 15,
- What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport became loaded with a set of Victorian values.
- No funny business; this heater's loaded !
- He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded .
- By the end of the evening, the guests in the club were really loaded .
- It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.
- He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
page 49,
- The more we invest in a sexual encounter in a particular person, the more loaded the dice in a dating game that we are forever reminded we must play to win.
page 80,
- If you add to this the fact that the magistrate and the police sergeant are close friends, then the dice could not have been more loaded against my client.
page 224,
- Horace has been crippled by being set off against the 'sincerity' and 'spontaneity' of these two; when it comes to the Greek lyricists, the dice are even more loaded against our poet, for the Greeks have not only spontaneity and sincerity on their side, but a phalanx of yet more formidable allies .
- That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
- "Ignorant" is a loaded word, often implying lack of intelligence rather than just lack of knowledge.
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- The more loaded phrase is the middle one, "she slit his gullet," since it captures a sense of crudeness and suddenness that the other two do not.
- She went all out; her new car is loaded .
carried
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*carry
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(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.