Difference between Carry and Contain

What is the difference between Carry and Contain?

Carry as a verb is to lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting. while Contain as a verb is to hold inside.

Carry

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried. The bit or digit that is carried in an addition.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting. To stock or supply (something). To adopt (something); take (something) over. To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly; as, to carry a motion. In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there. To have or maintain (something). To be transmitted; to travel. to capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding

Example sentence: I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

Contain

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To hold inside.To include as a part.To limit through restraint.

Example sentence: Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

We hope you now know whether to use Carry or Contain in your sentence.

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