Carry On

Definition: Carry On

Carry On

Verb

1. Direct the course of; manage or control; "You cannot conduct business like this".

2. Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions".

3. Continue with one's activities; "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room".

4. Misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way; "The children acted up when they were not bored".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Carry On

Action

Verb: do, perform, execute; achieve; (complete); transact, enact; commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play.

Barter

Trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate; carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade; be in business, be in the city; keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in.

Business

Drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business; Noun: keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work.

Conduct

Verb: transact, execute; despatch, dispatch; proceed with, discharge; carry on, carry through, carry out, carry into effect, put into effect; work out; go through, get through; enact; put into practice; do; officiate.

Continuance in action

Verb: continue, persist; go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on; abide, keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course, maintain its course; carry on, keep up.

Conversation

Verb: talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate; (loquacity); powwow.

Inquiry

Investigate; take up an inquiry, institute an inquiry, pursue an inquiry, follow up an inquiry, conduct an inquiry, carry on an inquiry, carry out an inquiry, prosecute an inquiry; Noun: look at, look into; preexamine; discuss, canvass, agitate.

Pursuit

Verb: pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after; shadow; carry on; (do); engage in; (undertake); set about; (begin); endeavor; court; (request) seek; (search); aim at; (intention); follow the trail; (trace); fish for; (experiment); press on; (haste); run a race; (velocity).

Reasoning,

Verb: reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle- argufy, bandy words, bandy arguments; chop logic; hold an argument, carry on an argument; controvert; (deny); canvass; comment upon, moralize upon; spiritualize; consider; (examine).

Warfare

Carry on war, carry on hostilities; keep the field; fight the good fight; fight it out, fight like devils, fight one's way, fight hand to hand; sell one's life dearly; pay the ferryman's fee.

Crosswords: Carry On

Never mind son, you just might meet him if you carry on like that. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Carry on. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

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)

You carry on much longer by tomorrow afternoon you could be in traction. (Only Fools and Horses; writing credit: John Sullivan)

Somebody's gonna have to carry on my family name. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

You want to carry on (Lost In Love; performing artist: Air Supply)

I'll help you carry on (Lean On Me; performing artist: Bill Withers)

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)

You are an engineer if you carry on a one-hour debate over the expected results of a test that actually takes five minutes to run. (references; author: unknown)

Carry On Dick (1974)

What a Carry On! (1973)

Carry On Abroad (1972)

Doctor Carry On Again (1969)

Carry On... Up the Khyber (1968)

CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON (performing artist: KANSAS)

Carry On Wayward Son (performing artist: The Oak Ridge Boys)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Carry On (The Bestsellers of 1917) (reference)

• Carry on Mr. Bowditch Study Guide (reference)

• Carry On, Understudies (reference)

• Carry on; letters in war-time (reference)

• Jacob's Journey: Wisdom to Find the Way, Strength to Carry on (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Carry On Cowboy/Carry On Screaming (reference)

• Carry On Nurse/Carry On Sergeant (reference)

• Carry on Cowboy (reference)

• Carry on Screaming (reference)

• Carry On Up The Khyber (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Carry On (reference)

• Man Must Carry On, Vol. 2 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Soft Rolling Carry On Case for Desktops & Ultralights (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Women of India carry on Gandhi salt campaign: wives of leaders active as violence grows. Credit: Library of Congress.

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.

West Danville, Vermont. Mr. Hasings in his general store, figuring up, says, "You can't carry on a business, especially nowadays, without a lot of book work. But whether it is for income tax or making up price lists for cost of living comodities, it is al. Credit: Library of Congress.

When you go home - "carry on" the army's fight against venereal diseases / McMennamin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Help her carry on! National League for Women's Service / design by Charles Dana Gibson. Credit: Library of Congress.

Help her carry on! National League for Women's Service / design by Charles Dana Gibson. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of any body, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject: for no man or society of men, having a power to deliver up their preservation, or consequently the means of it, to the absolute will and arbitrary dominion of another; when ever any one shall go about to bring them into such a slavish condition, they will always have a right to preserve, what they have not a power to part with; and to rid themselves of those, who invade this fundamental, sacred, and unalterable law of self-preservation, for which they entered into society. (Second Treatise of Government)

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)

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Health

Genetic factors can affect an individual's immune system and its responses to foreign antigens in several ways. Genes determine the variety of MHC molecules that individuals carry on their cells. (references)

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)

Civil Liberties

Burkina Faso

Religious groups only are taxed if they carry on lucrative activities, such as farming. (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)

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "carry on": carry on a lawsuit ♦ carry on driving ♦ carry on like a madman ♦ carry on like the devil ♦ carry on luggage ♦ carry on one's back ♦ carry on undeterred ♦ carry on with ♦ carry on with smb. ♦ To carry on. Additional references.

Albanian

vazhdoj (carry over, continue, extend, go ahead, go on, hold on, hold over, keep, keep on, maintain, pick up, press on, proceed, prosecute, pursue, push on, run, spread), sillem si i marrë, eci me tej, drejtoj (address, administer, administrate, aim, aim at, align, Aline, bend, boss, canalize, Cann, chair, channel, command, con, conduct, direct, drive, funnel, govern, guide, head, keep, lead, level, manage, navigate, operate, order, pilot, point, preside, rectify, refer, rein, relegate, rule, set, shirk, shoot, show, shunt, superintend, supervise, tend, train, unbend, vector), bëj (achieve, act, beget, carry into effect, carry out, carry through, catch, cause, commit, create, do, effect, effectuate, fabricate, grow, have, make, make up, navigate, pay, perform, perpetrate, proceed, render, study, transact, wage, wreak). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كان على علاقة مع, ‏واصل (continue, follow in his footsteps, gear, go on, hold on, keep, persist, press, proceed, pursue, push, push along, push on, roll on, stay, stick to smth., sustain), ‏حمل (bear, bearing, burden, carriage, carry, charge, conception, deck, hold, hump, knock up, lade, lamb, lifting, load, portage, pregnancy, take, tote, yeanling), ‏تصرف بحماقة (caper), ‏تصرف (action, behave, behavior, behaviour, carry, comport, conduct, conduct oneself, demeanor, demeanour, deport, deport oneself, deportment, disposal, fend, make, make shift, manage, mark out, proceed, rustle up), ‏ترقب (await, expect, expectancy, expectation, looking forward, wait), ‏سير العمل (performance), ‏إنفعل (effervesce), ‏أدار (administer, boss, cast, direct, dispense, govern, manage, mobilize, operate, order, preside, procure, rotate, run, slew, slue, spin, spun, steward, superintend, tumble, twiddle, twirl, wind, work). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ръководя (administer, administrate, be in charge of, boss, conduct, control, direct, guide, keep, lead, manage, mastermind, moderate, oversee, pioneer, rule, run, supervise, tutor, work), флиртувам очебийно, водя (conduct, deliver, go, guide, keep, lead, manage, pilot, prevent, prosecute, pursue, take, usher in, wage), бия на очи с поведението си, продължавам (continue, extend, go ahead, go on, keep, keep on, last, lengthen, proceed, produce, prolong, prosecute, protract, push on, reach, resume, spread, stretch), правя сцена, държа се глупаво, държа се несериозно (play about, play around). (various references)

Chinese 

纘 , 接著 (follow). (various references)

Czech

vyvádìt (act up, create, horse about, make the fire, take on), vést (administer, captain, channel, conduce, conduct, convey, direct, give, go, head, keep, lead, look, run, Shepherd, spearhead, steer, stock, supervise, throw, wage, walk, wheel), provozovat (barter, keep, profess, prosecute), pokraèovat (continue, get on, get on with, go, go on, hold, keep on, proceed, take up), dovádìt (cavort, Frisk, gambol, play, romp, tittup, wanton). (various references)

Finnish

jatkaa (add a piece to, continue, extend, go on, join, keep on, lengthen, proceed, proceed with, resume, scarf), harjoittaa (commit, do, drill, exercise, practise, pursue, rehearse, train). (various references)

French

continuer, soutenir (carry, cause), mener, faire marcher (carry), exercer, entretenir, diriger (carry). (various references)

German

weitermachen (continue, hurry on, keep on, keep up, pick up, proceed, push on, resume, to continue, to keep up), weiterführen (continue, lead on, pursue, take up, to carry on), treiben (battue, be adrift, be up to, beat, bring, chase, commit, create, do, drift, drive, drive on, enchase, float, force, hustle and bustle, impel, jack up, leaven, make, make rise, move, propel, pursue, push, push out, put forth, put out, rush, shoo, sprout, swirling, throw out, thrust, to enchase, urge, work, wreak), theater (audience, drama, fuss, game, hassle, kerfuffle, palaver, scene, stage, theater, theater US, theaters, theaters US, theatre, theatres, to-do), techtelmechtel (affair, entanglement, hanky panky, love affair), sich erstrecken (extend, last, reach, run, stretch, to range), prozedur (palaver, procedure), betreiben (bustle, conduct, maintain, operate, operation, ply, power, prosecute, pursue, push ahead, push forward, to bustle, to carry on, to practise), ausüben (born, borne, exercise, exert, perform, ply, practice, practise, to bear, to exercise, to practise, wield). (various references)

Greek 

συνεχίζω (continue, go on 1, go on 2, keep going, keep on), μιλώ ασταμάτητα, φέρομαι περίεργα, εξακολουθώ (continue, go on, keep, keep on, persist). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"משיך (continue, draw, extend, go, go ahead, lengthen, prolong, push on, resume). (various references)

Hungarian

folytat (continue, go on, pursue, to carry on, to exercise, to follow, to inquire, to keep going, to ply, to propagandize, to prosecute, to restart, to resume). (various references)

Indonesian

mengambin. (various references)

Italian

confusione (abashment, ado, bedlam, chaos, clutter, commotion, confusion, disorder, disturbance, embarrassment, fuss, haze, hotchpotch, hubbub, jumble, mess, mix up, muddle, noise, pother, puzzledom, shambles, stir), proseguire (continue, go on, keep on, prosecute, pursue). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

背� う　 (be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder), 背� う (to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder), 荷なう (to bear, to carry on shoulder, to shoulder), 事�'運ぶ (to carry on, to go ahead, to proceed), 担ぐ　 (to carry on shoulder, to shoulder), 担う (to bear, to carry on shoulder, to shoulder), 担ぐ (to carry on shoulder, to shoulder), 営む　 (to carry on in ceremony, to run a business), 営む (to carry on, to run a business), 勤め行なう (to carry on), 合わせ行なう (to carry on together, to do at the same time). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょう (actor, artisan, award, bruise, buy, call, carpenter, catch, chapter, commander, cut, destroy, drink, eat, gash, general, government, hurt, idea, illness, important point, injury, label, leader, make up for, means, mechanic, medal, phenomenon, prize, put on, quotient, ride in, scar, scratch, section, send for, take, to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder, upper part, weak point, wear, workman, wound), つとめお�"なう (to carry on), になう (to bear, to carry on shoulder, to shoulder), せおう (to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder), かつぐ (to carry on shoulder, to shoulder), いとなむ (to carry on, to run a business), �"と�'は�"ぶ (to carry on, to go ahead, to proceed), あわせお�"なう (to carry on together, to do at the same time). (various references)

Manx

musthaa (bustle, display, excitement, flap, fluster, fuss, hullabaloo, muster, pomposity, pompousness, row, rumpus, shindy, stir, strife, tumult), goll er (continue, run on), freayll seose, farraghtyn (continuance, continue, durability, endure). (various references)

Pig Latin

arrycay onay

Portuguese

continuar (abide, continue, endure, go ahead, go along, go on, hold on, keep, keep on, last, lengthen, maintain, proceed, proceed with, progress, prolong, prosecute, run, stay). (various references)

Romanian

continua (bide, carry through, continue, follow, go on, hold, keep, keep it up, keep on, keep up, last, persist, play off, proceed, prosecute, pursue, resume), conduce (accompany, administer, be in command, boss, boss the show, captain, charge, command, conduct, control, convey, direct, drive, escort, govern, guide, handle, head, husband, lead, lead the way, manage, master, operate, order, overrule, pilot, preside, restrain, rule, run, sail, see, see off, show, show up, steer, superintend, supervise, take, wield), zi-i-nainte (go on), fi angajat în, face pe nebunul (jazz, kid, put an antic disposition on), duce mai departe (carry along), întreprinde (begin, enter upon, take, undertake, venture). (various references)

Russian 

продолжать (continue, continue in, continue to, continue with, follow up, go ahead, go on, keep on, keep to, porceeded, proceed, prolong). (various references)

Scottish

cog (carry on war). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obavljati (administer, practice), nastaviti (carry forward, continue, follow up, get on with, go ahead, go on, keep on, keep up, move along, move on), izmotavati se (clown, mop and mow). (various references)

Spanish

continuar (continue, drag on, endure, get along with smth., go on, hold, keep, keep on, keep up, last, last out, proceed with, pursue, push on, remain, resume, sustain), proseguir (continue, prosecute, pursue, wage), armar (arm, Armor, armour, assemble, bend, fit out, kick up, load, piece together, put together, reinforce, rig up, set, ship), discutir (agitate, argue, debate, discuss, dispute, lecture, talk out, talk over, talk through, treat), hacer bullicio, insistir (insist, press), llevar (bear, bear out, blow, bring, bring along, bring around, bring round, carry, carry off, cart, convey, deliver, drive, encroach on, enter up, ferryboat, fetch, have, have on, heave, hump, hunch, keep, lead, live, live through, live up, lug, model, run, see, spend, sport, take, take along, take over, tote, transport, truck, trundle, tug, wash, wear, whip, whirl, whisk), machacar (crush, grind, harp on, natter, peg away, pound, pound away, pulverize, slash, stomp), alborotar (ballyhoo, disturb, excite, rampage), poseer (cut, cut out, have, live, live on, live through, live up, own, posses, possess), tener un plan, protestar (contest, expostulate, kick, moan, obtest, protest, remonstrate, remonstration, wail, yap), protestar amargamente, quejarse (address a complaint, beef, bellyache, bitch, complain, crab, gripe, groan, grouse, grumble, kick, moan, murmur, natter, niggle, quarrel, repine, sound off, squeal, take on, wail, whimper, yammer, yap), seguir adelante (go ahead, go off, go on, keep on, press forward, press on, push ahead, ride on, set on, thrust forward), ser amo, ser dueño, ser portador (carry), murmurar (babble, backbite, Bicker, burble, criticize, murmur, mutter, niggle, purl, ripple). (various references)

Swedish

idka (practice), husera (run riot), driva (actuate, bank, caulk, chase, drift, drive, drive on, force, impel, jest, operate, power, push, set on, shoo, work), bedriva (manage, prosecute). (various references)

Turkish

sürdürmek (continue, elongate, follow, go ahead with smth., keep, keep going, keep on, keep the ball rolling, keep up, lead, maintain, perpetuate, persist, prolong, prosecute, pursue, remain, support, sustain, uphold, wage), peşini bırakmamak (follow about, follow up, tag, tag after, tag along), devam ettirmek (extend, keep, keep smth. going, keep the ball rolling, keep up, sustain, uphold, wage). (various references)

Ukrainian

займатися (deal in, do, employ, engage in, go in for, kindle, ply, profess, prosecute, pursue), продовжувати (carry, continue, elongate, go ahead, go along, go on, keep on, proceed, produce, prolong, prolongate, prosecute, protract, pursue, resume). (various references)

gaer, gerar, gerarae, geraris, gerebat, gerens, gerere, gereret, gerimus, gerson, gersonitarum, gerunt, geruntur, gesserat, gesserit, gesserunt, gessi, gessimus, gessistis, gessit, gesta, gestam, gestarum, gestas, gestis, gestorum, gestum, se gero. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carryon.

-1 letter: crayon, rancor.

-2 letters: acorn, carny, carry, corny, crony, cyano, narco, racon, rayon.

-3 letters: arco, carn, carr, cony, corn, cory, cyan, narc, nary, orca, orra, racy, roan, roar, yarn.

-4 letters: any, arc, can, car, cay, con, cor, coy, cry, nay, nor, oar, oca, ora, orc, ran, ray, roc, rya, yar, yon.

-5 letters: an, ar, ay, na.

+1 letter: carryons, contrary, coronary.

+3 letters: barleycorn, contrarily, cornerways.

+4 letters: barleycorns, chrysarobin, contrariety, coparcenary, cordwainery, craniometry, granophyric, hydrocarbon, rancorously, reactionary, subcontrary.

+5 letters: accretionary, archdeaconry, chronography, chrysarobins, confirmatory, consecratory, conservatory, contemporary, counterrally, ferrocyanide, gerontocracy, hydrocarbons, postcoronary, recessionary, renunciatory, secretionary.