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Definition: TO CARRY OFF |
TO CARRY OFF1. (a) To remove to a distance. (b) To bear away as from the power or grasp of others. (c) To remove from life; as, the plague carried off thousands. |
Crosswords: TO CARRY OFF |
| English words defined with "TO CARRY OFF": Box coat, bring off ♦ carry off ♦ Emunctory ♦ flue ♦ Gree ♦ Hary ♦ manage ♦ pull off ♦ To bear off, To carry away, To get away with, To make away with, To take away. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO CARRY OFF": aftercooling ♦ Bum-boat ♦ Cerberus, Checks, CONE OPERATOR, cracker-fanner operator, CRACKING-AND-FANNING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ deck drain, Drainage Well, Drainage wells ♦ FEEDER-SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR, FOREIGNER ♦ gas tracers, gutter waterway ♦ Hair ♦ Lenard effect ♦ Meat, Bread ♦ scupper hole. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO CARRY OFF": Diaphoresis, Direption ♦ rapacious. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Conduits under the highway to carry off flood waters, thus protecting the highway. U.S. 60, Navajo County, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | One brief sigh sufficed to carry off the entire burden of these dismal reminiscences. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I am not a man whose name nobody knows, and who comes into houses to carry off children. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance. Cerberus is known to have had three heads, and some of the poets have credited him with as many as a hundred. Professor Graybill, whose clerky erudition and profound knowledge of Greek give his opinion great weight, has averaged all the estimates, and makes the number twenty-seven -- a judgment that would be entirely conclusive is Professor Graybill had known (a) something about dogs, and (b) something about arithmetic. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO CARRY OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | abtragen (abrade, bring away, carry away, carry off, clear away, clear off, dismantle, erode, level down, outwear, pay off, remove, to remove, wear, wear away, wear out). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | elnyer (earn, to attain, to gain, to take out). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 拐う (to abduct, to kidnap, to run away with), "う (to abduct, to kidnap, to run away with). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | さらう (to abduct, to dredge, to kidnap, to practise, to rehearse, to review, to run away with, to sweep away, to wash away). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay arrycay offay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | asporto, deporto. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-f-o-o-r-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: carroty, factory, oratory. | |
-4 letters: arroyo, carrot, crafty, factor, orator, orfray, rotary, trocar. | |
-5 letters: actor, afoot, carry, craft, croft, farcy, footy, foray, forty, rooty, rotor, taffy, taroc, tarry, toffy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 43 41 52 52 59 4F 46 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000011 01000001 01010010 01010010 01011001 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   C A R R Y   O F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0043 0041 0052 0052 0059 004F 0046 0046 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449237355252592494040 |
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