CARRY OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carry over mean? 

• CARRY OVER (verb)
  The verb CARRY OVER has 4 senses:

1. transfer or persist from one stage or sphere of activity to another

2. transport from one place or state to another

3. hold over goods to be sold for the next season

4. transfer from one time period to the next

  Familiarity information: CARRY OVER used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARRY OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transfer or persist from one stage or sphere of activity to another

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "carry over" is one way to...):

die hard; endure; persist; prevail; run (continue to exist)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

carry-over (application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transport from one place or state to another

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

Adam would have been carried over into the life eternal

Hypernyms (to "carry over" is one way to...):

transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Hold over goods to be sold for the next season

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

carry over; hold over

Hypernyms (to "carry over" is one way to...):

hold on; keep (retain possession of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Transfer from one time period to the next

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

carry forward; carry over

Hypernyms (to "carry over" is one way to...):

shift; transfer (move around)

Domain category:

accountancy; accounting (the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

These problems, if they hold true in people as has been shown in the case of BPA, will carry over to future generations through their effects on the germline.

(Reproductive Problems Reported In Lab Mice after BPA Replacements in Plastics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Another species responded more positively to the moisture pulse and saw population increases carry over into subsequent summers.

(Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, National Science Foundation)