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Definition: TO CARRY ON |
TO CARRY ON1. (a) To carry farther; to advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design. (b) To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry or trade. |
Crosswords: TO CARRY ON |
| English words defined with "TO CARRY ON": Because of, Burden of proof ♦ canal boat, carry ♦ Delate ♦ Fascet, foreign mission ♦ gens ♦ heart ♦ Kneebrush ♦ Litigiousness ♦ mettle, Militiate, mission, missionary post, missionary station ♦ name, narrowboat, nerve ♦ pack, piggyback, Powder monkey ♦ Saddlebags, spunk, stage, stagecoach ♦ To go it, To levy a fine, transport ♦ Windrow. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO CARRY ON": Colporteur ♦ litigation ♦ Militiate ♦ Picul. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're like Jerry Lewis, you give me hope to carry on, then you leave me in the lurch while you strap on your six-guns (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; writing credit: Earl Mac Rauch) Somebody's gonna have to carry on my family name. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | You want to carry on (Lost In Love; performing artist: Air Supply) For the will to carry on (I Turn to You; performing artist: Christina Aguilera) To carry on, forget Krypton, and keep going (Superman's Song; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies) It's hard to carry on (Dreamtime; performing artist: Daryl Hall) In every moment there's a reason to carry on (Whenever I Call You Friend; performing artist: KENNY LOGGINS) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Coast Guard Auxiliary. Guardians of inland waters. Trimming sail. A Coast Guardsman climbs the mast of a schooner on patrol duty off Boston. Coast Guard auxiliarists are given instructions to carry on such work as the need arises. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Silas Weir Mitchell | It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | When vessels and tugs are ceded, such vessels and tugs, together with their fittings and gear, shall be in good state of repair, shall be in condition to carry on commercial traffic on the Rhine, and shall be selected from among those most recently built. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The use of relatively long dwell-time peritoneal exchanges [continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)] has enabled individuals to carry on normal daily activities without the use of machines or other appliances. (references) | |
The nucleus of every human cell in a healthy person's body contains a vast chemical information database that carries all the instructions the cell needs to carry on all its functions (the only exception is mature red blood cells, which have no nucleus). (references) | ||
Business | Establishment of a representative office in Lithuania gives the foreign company a legal presence in the country, but does not permit it to carry on any economic activity, and is thus useful only for assessing business opportunities. (references) | |
Economic History | Argentina | To carry on a habitual activity, a foreign company must establish a branch (sucursal) in Argentina. (references) |
Romania | Representative offices are not entitled to carry on economic activities on their own behalf or on behalf of the parent. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | There is also legal provision for a company to be registered as an off shore company, in order to carry on business outside Sri Lanka. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Sri Lanka | The executive order granted the Veddas the freedom to protect their culture and to carry on their traditional way of life without hindrance. (references) |
Political Economy | FINLAND | Foreigners residing outside of the EEA who wish to carry on trade as private entrepreneurs or as partners in a Finnish limited or general partnership must get a trade permit from the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) before starting a business in Finland. (references) |
Trade | Malaysia | Importers and exporters have sufficient access to foreign exchange to carry on their business. (references) |
Worker Rights | Pakistan | Unions associated with opposition parties are allowed to carry on their activities freely. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | President, I want our fellow citizens to know how much you did to carry on this tradition. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO CARRY ON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 進行 (in progress, to advance, to carry out, to conduct, to do, to execute, underway), 繼承 (to inherit, to succeed), 接 (after that, continue, then, to follow, went on to), 卷 (chapter, examination paper, to roll, to sweep up). (various references) | ||||
German | weiterführen (carry on, continue, lead on, pursue, take up). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | továbbvisz (to take on), tovább csinál (to keep going), szokatlan módon viselkedik, jeleneteket csinál, furcsán viselkedik, folytat (carry on, continue, go on, pursue, to exercise, to follow, to inquire, to keep going, to ply, to propagandize, to prosecute, to restart, to resume). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 事'運ぶ (to go ahead, to proceed), 営む (to run a business), 勤め行なう . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | つとめお"なう, いとなむ (to run a business), "と'は"ぶ (to go ahead, to proceed). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay arrycay onay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | proveho. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-o-r-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: cartoony, contrary, coronary, cryotron, octonary. | |
-2 letters: carroty, carryon, cartoon, coranto, oratory. | |
-3 letters: aroynt, arroyo, cantor, carrot, carton, contra, corona, craton, crayon, croton, notary, orator, racoon, rancor, ratoon, rotary, trocar, tycoon. | |
-4 letters: acorn, actor, atony, canto, canty, carny, carry, conto, corny, cotan, crony, croon, cyano, cyton, narco, octan, racon, rayon, rooty, rotor, taroc, tarry, toyon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-o-r-r-t-y" | |
+3 letters: confirmatory, consecratory, conservatory, contemporary, gerontocracy, postcoronary. | |
+4 letters: chronotherapy, concretionary, contradictory. | |
+5 letters: congratulatory, contemporarily, contractionary, cryoprotectant, recommendatory, reconciliatory, uncontemporary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      43 41 52 52 59      4F 4E |
| 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 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   C A R R Y   O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0043 0041 0052 0052 0059      004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54492373552525924948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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