2 → see also carpet
ca r|pet slip|per (carpet slippers ) N‑COUNT Carpet slippers are soft, comfortable slippers.
car pool /kɑː r puːl/ (car pools , car pooling , car pooled ) also carpool , car-pool
1 N‑COUNT [oft N n] A car pool is an arrangement where a group of people take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children to school. In American English, car pool is sometimes used to refer simply to people travelling together in a car. □ …the carpool lanes in LA.
2 VERB If a group of people car pool , they take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children to school. [mainly AM or AUSTRALIAN ] □ [V ] The government says fewer Americans are carpooling to work.
3 N‑COUNT A car pool is a number of cars that are owned by a company or organization for the use of its employees or members. [BUSINESS ]
ca r port (car ports ) also carport N‑COUNT A car port is a shelter for cars which is attached to a house and consists of a flat roof supported on pillars.
car|riage /kæ r I dʒ/ (carriages )
1 N‑COUNT [oft by N ] A carriage is an old-fashioned vehicle, usually for a small number of passengers, which is pulled by horses. □ The President-elect followed in an open carriage drawn by six beautiful gray horses.
2 N‑COUNT A carriage is one of the separate, long sections of a train that carries passengers. [BRIT ] in AM, usually use car 3 N‑COUNT A carriage is the same as a baby carriage . [AM ]
4 N‑UNCOUNT Carriage is the cost or action of transporting or delivering goods. [BRIT , FORMAL ] □ It costs £10.86 for one litre including carriage. in AM, usually use delivery charge 5 N‑UNCOUNT [usu with poss] Your carriage is the way you hold your body and head when you are walking, standing, or sitting. [LITERARY ] □ Her legs were long and fine, her hips slender, her carriage erect.
carriage|way /kæ r I dʒwe I / (carriageways ) N‑COUNT A carriageway is one side of a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a barrier. [BRIT ]
car|ri|er ◆◇◇ /kæ riə r / (carriers )
1 N‑COUNT A carrier is a vehicle that is used for carrying people, especially soldiers, or things. □ There were armoured personnel carriers and tanks on the streets.
2 → see also aircraft carrier
3 N‑COUNT A carrier is a passenger airline. □ Aer Lingus, Ireland's national carrier, will report its full-year results tomorrow.
4 N‑COUNT [usu n N ] A carrier is a person or an animal that is infected with a disease and so can make other people or animals ill. □ …screening of Ebola carriers. □ [+ of ] …carriers of disease such as mosquitoes and worms.
ca r|ri|er bag (carrier bags ) N‑COUNT A carrier bag is a bag made of plastic or paper which has handles and which you carry shopping in. [BRIT ] in AM, usually use shopping bag
car|ri|on /kæ riən/ N‑UNCOUNT Carrion is the decaying flesh of dead animals.
car|rot /kæ rət/ (carrots )
1 N‑VAR Carrots are long, thin, orange-coloured vegetables. They grow under the ground, and have green shoots above the ground.
2 N‑COUNT Something that is offered to people in order to persuade them to do something can be referred to as a carrot . Something that is meant to persuade people not to do something can be referred to in the same sentence as a 'stick'. □ [+ of ] They will be set targets, with a carrot of extra cash and pay if they achieve them. □ Why the new emphasis on sticks instead of diplomatic carrots?
3 → see also carrot and stick
ca r|rot and sti ck also carrot-and-stick ADJ [ADJ n] If an organization has a carrot and stick approach or policy, they offer people things in order to persuade them to do something and punish them if they refuse to do it. □ The government is proclaiming a carrot-and-stick approach to the problem.
car|ry ◆◆◆ /kæ ri/ (carries , carrying , carried )
1 VERB If you carry something, you take it with you, holding it so that it does not touch the ground. □ [V n] He was carrying a briefcase. □ [V n prep/adv] He carried the plate through to the dining room. □ [V n prep/adv] If your job involves a lot of paperwork, you're going to need something to carry it all in.
2 VERB If you carry something, you have it with you wherever you go. □ [V n] You have to carry a bleeper so that they can call you in at any time.
3 VERB If something carries a person or thing somewhere, it takes them there. □ [V n adv/prep] Flowers are designed to attract insects which then carry the pollen from plant to plant. □ [V n] The ship could carry seventy passengers.
4 VERB If a person or animal is carrying a disease, they are infected with it and can pass it on to other people or animals. □ [V n] Frogs eat pests which destroy crops and carry diseases.
5 VERB [no passive, no cont] If an action or situation has a particular quality or consequence, you can say that it carries it. □ [V n] Check that any medication you're taking carries no risk for your developing baby.
6 VERB If a quality or advantage carries someone into a particular position or through a difficult situation, it helps them to achieve that position or deal with that situation. □ [V n prep/adv] He had the ruthless streak necessary to carry him into the Cabinet.
7 VERB If you carry an idea or a method to a particular extent, you use or develop it to that extent. □ [V n prep/adv] It's not such a new idea, but I carried it to extremes. □ [V n prep/adv] We could carry that one step further by taking the same genes and putting them into another crop.