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Carry-over

Definitions: Carry-over

Carry-over

Noun

1. Generalization of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation.

2. (British) the accumulated and undivided profits of a corporation after provision has been made for dividends and reserves.

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

Specialty Definitions: Carry-over

DomainDefinitions

Finance

A postponement of settlement of account on the Stock Exchange until the following period involving payment of a rate of interest on the account. Source: European Union. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Water carried out of a cooling tower in mist or small droplet form. Usually expressed as a percentage of the circulating water rate. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Carry-over

Synonyms: carry-forward (n), generalisation (n), generalization (n), transfer (n), transfer of training (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Carry-over

Specialty definitions using "carry-over": carry-over loss, cinder-return system. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Carry-over

DomainTitle

Books

  • Zum Carry-over von Blei : Arbeiten der Arbeitsgruppe "Carry-Over toxischer Elemente" (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Carry-over

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Philippines

However, possible reforms include a longer tax holiday for big ticket investments; provisions for net operating loss carry-over and the accelerated depreciation of fixed assets; more liberal tax deductions for training and for research and development expenses than under current internal revenue laws; the deferred imposition of the minimum corporate income tax (2 percent of gross income); an investment tax allowance for spending on fixed assets; and tax and duty exemptions for capital equipment imports and tax credits for purchases of locally-manufactured equipment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Carry-over

"Carry-over" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Carry-over" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)55.56%5157,705
Noun (singular)44.44%4175,879
                    Total100.00%9N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Carry-over

Language Translations for "carry-over"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

遗留. (various references)

   

Danish

  

reportforretninger (contango), prolongationsforretninger (contango), prolongation (contango), overførsel (shipment, transmission), forstoevningstab, forstoevning (atomisation, atomization, spraying), forstøvningstab (drift, windage loss). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verstuivingsverlies, prolongatiezaken (contango), prolongatie (carrying over, carryover, contango, contango transaction, continuation, prolongation), gemengverstuiving. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pölyhäviö, pölyäminen uunissa. (various references)

   

French

  

volage(B), report de crédits, report (carry, carryover, lines carried over), poussières, opérations de report, entraînement de poussières, entraînées. (various references)

   

German

  

Verstaubungsverlust, Verstaubung im Ofen, Sprühverlust (drift, windage loss), Reportgeschäfte (contango), Prolongationsgeschäfte (contango), Mitreissen von Wasser (drift, windage loss). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σύμβαση μεταφοράς (contango), πράξεις παράτασης (contango). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tőzsdei prolongáció. (various references)

   

Italian

  

contratti di riporto (contango), spolverio nel forno, spolverio, riporto di stanziamenti, polveri trascinate coi fumi, Perdita per trascinamento (drift, windage loss), perdita per spolverio. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

캐리오버. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arry-overcay

   

Portuguese

  

corrente (backwash, block rake, block reek, cable, catena, chain, chain belt, circulation, common, course, creeper chain, criss cross, cullet cut, current, drift, fetter, floating, flow, flown, fluent, flux, fresh, general, guy, prevailing, preventer, rife, river, ruling, running, runny, scour, shackle, stream, tether, tide, tie, undercurrent, windage loss), poeiras arrastadas com os fumos, perda de água devido ao vento (drift, windage loss), operações de reporte (contango), desvio de água devido ao vento (drift, windage loss), arrastamento de poeiras no forno. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

перенос переносимый. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

saldo que pasa al ejercicio siguiente, polvos arrastrados, pérdida por rozamiento (drift, windage loss), operaciones de reporte (contango), operaciones de prolongación (contango), operaciones con prórroga (contango), dispersión (breakup, dispersal, disperse, dispersion, dissipation, drift, droop, leakage, pattern, scatter, scattering, spread, stray, windage loss), arrastre del polvo de composición. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mängavryckningsförlust, förstoftningsförlust, damningsförlust, damning (dusting). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Carry-over

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carryover.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-r-r-r-v-y"

-2 letters: recarry.

-3 letters: carver, craver, orrery, roarer.

-4 letters: carer, carry, carve, caver, corer, cover, covey, coyer, crave, crore, error, ocrea, ovary, racer, rarer, raver, rover, yarer.

-5 letters: acre, aero, aery, arco, arvo, aver, care, carr, cave, cavy, cero, core, cory, cove, eyra, orca, orra, over, oyer, race, racy, rare, rave, rear, roar, rove, vary, vera.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-r-r-r-v-y"
 

+1 letter: carryovers.

 

+4 letters: irrecoverably.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Carry-over


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 72 72 79 2D 6F 76 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01110010 01111001 00101101 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#114 &#121 &#45 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 0072 0079 002D 006F 0076 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37678484911581887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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