What does carry over mean?

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car·ry over

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. transfer, transfer of training, carry-overnoun

    application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation

  2. carry-over, carry-forwardverb

    the accumulated and undivided profits of a corporation after provision has been made for dividends and reserves

  3. carry oververb

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

  4. carry oververb

    transport from one place or state to another

    "Adam would have been carried over into the life eternal"

  5. carry over, hold oververb

    hold over goods to be sold for the next season

  6. carry over, carry forwardverb

    transfer from one time period to the next

Wiktionary

  1. carry oververb

    To transport over by carrying.

  2. carry oververb

    To transfer (something) to a later point in time.

  3. carry oververb

    To inherit, to inspire

ChatGPT

  1. carry over

    Carry over refers to the act of transferring or extending something (such as an amount, balance, skill, or concept) from one situation or time period to another. It can apply to various contexts such as finance, where remaining balance is added to a new period; education, when skills or knowledge gained are applied in different learning areas; and cooking, when residual heat continues to cook food even after it has been removed from the heat source.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of carry over in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of carry over in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of carry over in a Sentence

  1. Christian Nevell Bovee:

    For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

  2. Mark Luschini:

    There will be some carry-over from the positive jobs report but not at the same magnitude.

  3. Chris Shisanya:

    This is a carry-over of what we had last year.

  4. Brian MacLellan:

    He has a passion for the game, for goal-scoring, and I think that’ll carry over over the next five years.

  5. Christopher Dearborn:

    I don't think they have any hope of prevailing in the guilt phase, but their strategy will continue to be to gain some credibility with the jury by conceding what they had to concede and hoping to try to humanize the kid a little bit so that will carry over into the second phase of the trial.


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