Wiktionary
vb. 1 (&lit: English) To transport over by carrying. 2 (context transitive idiomatic English) To transfer (something) to a later point in time. 3 (context transitive mathematics English) (rfdef: English) 4 To inherit, to inspire
WordNet
v. transfer or persist from one stage or sphere of activity to another
transport from one place or state to another; "Adam would have been carried over into the life eternal"
hold over goods to be sold for the next season [syn: hold over]
transfer from one time period to the next [syn: carry forward]
Usage examples of "carry over".
None could ignore the music, although they were only barely aware of the nasal tenor whose voice was not strong enough to carry over the wild squeals of the theremin and the twang of a dozen steel-stringed guitars.
I scream again, but we are now more than eighty yards distant and my voice probably doesn't carry over the noise of the battle, and the waves, and the seabirds that soar over the harbour.
Somehow she'd expected that to carry over to the same sort of discomfort with women as authority figures which she'd seen from the more reactionary Grayson physicians.
Durine said, his voice pitched to barely carry over the wind and the flapping of wings.
Now there's a new difficulty with the runabout sensors, and it appears to carry over to the long-range sensors here.
And so all of us, having been treated that way, carry over into adult life the sense of being on probation here.
I was afraid the stiffness and formality of your character would carry over into your fieldwork.
He stuck his face right into that of the fellow who'd jostled him, trusting that the sentiment he'd expressed in Catalan would carry over into Italian.
Besides, I didn't hear a thing, and mining sounds surely would carry over a great distance.