(v. t.) To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
(v. t.) To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.
(v. t.) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
(v. t.) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.
(v. t.) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.
(v. t.) 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; as, to carry an election.
(v. t.) To get possession of by force; to capture.
(v. t.) To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.
(v. t.) To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns.
(v. t.) To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.
(v. i.) To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.
(v. i.) To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.
(v. i.) To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.
(v. i.) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
(n.) A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.
Example Sentences:
(1) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
(2) Estimations of the degree of incorporation of 14C from the radioactive labeled carbohydrate into the glycerol and fatty acid moieties were carried out.
(3) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
(4) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(5) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(6) The present study was therefore carried out to specify further which type of adrenoceptor is involved in lithium-induced hyperglycaemia and inhibition of insulin secretion.
(7) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
(8) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(9) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
(10) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
(11) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(12) The investigations carried out show that the two main serologic types of phage group II are biochemically different.
(13) I just know that in that moment he’s not in condition to carry on in the game.
(14) The polymerization of dATP, dCTP, and dGTP onto the defined length initiator, d(pA)10, has been carried out in four buffers.
(15) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
(16) Biosyntheses of TXA2 and PGI2 were carried out using arachidonic acid as a substrate and horse platelet and aorta microsomes as sources of TXA2 and PGI2 synthetases respectively.
(17) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
(18) A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was divided into three nonoverlapping probes.
(19) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(20) Five investigations into the force are being carried out by the IPCC.
Fetch
Definition:
(v. t.) To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.
(v. t.) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
(v. t.) To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
(v. t.) To reduce; to throw.
(v. t.) To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
(v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
(v. t.) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
(n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.
(n.) The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nationalisation of a travel agency sounds far-fetched, but has a historical precedent.
(2) Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan are all not so far-fetched names for a run in 2016.
(3) So yes, it might sound far-fetched, the sort of proposal that lends itself to endless satire from the triumphalist neoliberal right.
(4) We will all be martyred in this fight.” Attempted coup in Turkey: what we know so far Read more He sent his bodyguard to fetch his personal gun.
(5) Like the rest of Katine, the medical staff have to fetch their water in jerry cans from a nearby borehole.
(6) Royal Mail has put its former south London mail centre at Nine Elms up for sale, which analysts estimate could fetch up to £662m.
(7) For example, a council home in south London could easily fetch £500,000 on an open market valuation.
(8) It is an optimistic but not completely far-fetched vision.
(9) Girls continue to fetch polluted water from muddy puddles and rivers, walking past broken hand-pumps and schools they would be attending if they had the time.
(10) The letter will go on sale at Bloomsbury Auctions in Mayfair on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to £8,000.
(11) It is no longer far-fetched to consider a former host of the reality TV show The Apprentice occupying the White House.
(12) Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness – or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
(13) Maybe: as long as “Panchito” continues to push the messages that are strike a chord with US Latino Catholics, it is not far-fetched to say that this 21 st century pope could go down as the most transformative leader the Church and its faithful in the Americas have ever seen.
(14) For a start, the idea that George Osborne would increase the tax threshold simply to play footsie with Nick Clegg is far-fetched.
(15) Analysis of data revealed that 70% of students wash and fetch water in the streams and ponds for domestic purposes.
(16) The story of a secret tunnel between Rich's office and the Glashof restaurant may be far fetched, but Lang says that during the day he refused to leave his office without a cordon of Mossad-trained bodyguards, and during the evening on the ride back to Baar he insisted on a tail car to accompany his Mercedes.
(17) Artistic comparisons with Joseph Brodsky are far-fetched .
(18) One reporter watched astonished as the president went off to fetch biscuits.
(19) Surely there must be some hilarious anecdotes from those days when he was fetching beef sandwiches for Brian Johnston?
(20) By 2005 he was the highest paid painter in India with his work easily fetching $1m (£538,000).