carry
part of speech
verb (carry, carries, carried, carrying)
meaning for a pupil
1) To carry is to hold something and take it with you. tree →
2) To carry is to be able to hold or take a load: «The bus carries 40 people». tree →
3) In adding, to carry is to move a ten to the next place. tree →
4) To carry on is to keep going. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It often means to take away or lead off, as in "carry away captive", or to bear a load. It can also mean to bring someone up from a place, to take something out, or to sweep someone along, as a heart that carries a person away. In the primary lessons: how much something can hold or take; also carrying in addition; in science, blood carries oxygen; phrases «carry on», «carry out» (do), «carry over», «get carried away» (too excited)
examples
- Asshur shall carry thee away captive. (Torah NUM.24.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he said unto Him: 'If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. (Torah EXO.33.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it. (Torah DEU.28.38, JPS 1917) tree →
- Why doth thy heart carry thee away? (Writings JOB.15.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- And then carry him out, and stone him, that he die.' (Prophets 1KI.21.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. (Prophets EZK.12.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- Each truck can carry 2 tons. tree →
- She carries 4 bags. tree →
- How many trips to carry 30 boxes, 5 at a time? tree →
- In 28 + 15 you carry 1 ten. tree →
- Can you help me carry the shopping? tree →
- Carry on reading quietly. tree →
- The wind carried the kite away. tree →
- Blood carries oxygen around your body. tree →
- We carried out the experiment. tree →
- Don't get carried away with the glitter! tree →
note
A limit per trip: total ÷ per trip, rounded up. Trap: a last trip with fewer is still a trip. Spelling: carry → carries, carried (y to i). Safety: lift heavy things with bent knees.
In the corpora
- And he said unto Him: 'If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
- So they drew near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.
- Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
- Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
- And Jonathan gave his weapons unto his lad, and said unto him: 'Go, carry them to the city.'
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «carry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.