carries

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of carry.

   This pipeline carries oil across three states.

   The new policy carries serious consequences for repeat offenders.

   Note

   A spelling rule comes first: a final y after a consonant becomes ies, so carry gives carries, which looks exactly like the noun's plural. Every current sense takes an object. A pipeline carries oil, a shop carries a brand it stocks, and a ledger carries a figure into the next column. Only the sense of moving something by force is archaic.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of carry.

   The fullback racked up over a hundred yards on just eight carries.

   Golfers compared their carries off the elevated tee.

   Note

   The field tells you which carry is counted. Golfers compare carries as the distance a ball flies before landing. In arithmetic, carries are the digits moved into the next column. In finance, they are the running cost or benefit of holding an asset. A stretch of land between two waters is also a carry, another name for a portage. Only context separates the plural from the verb form.

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