<B>carrying capacity,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the largest number of a population of a species the environment can support. </DL>
<A NAME="carryingcase">
<B>carrying case,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small case or bag for holding a particular object or set of objects, such as a film projector, shaving equipment, or tape recorder. </DL>
<A NAME="carryingcharge">
<B>carrying charge,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an interest charge on the balance owed for an installment purchase or loan. <BR> <I>Ex. If he owes an installment debt, on which he pays a high rate of interest as carrying charges, he should not make small payments on his debt and put some money in the bank, where it earns a low rate of interest (E. C. Harwood).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the expenses involved in continuing ownership of property or goods. <BR> <I>Ex. Carrying charges pay for maintenance, interest, and amortization of the mortgage and other costs (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="carryingon">
<B>carrying-on, </B>noun, pl. <B>carryings-on.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) conspicuous, frolicsome, or indecorous behavior. <BR> <I>Ex. paid no attention to his wife's carryings-on with another man (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="carryingparty">
<B>carrying party,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a military party detailed to carry or bring up supplies. </DL>
<B>carrying trade,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the trade or business of conveying goods, especially over sea between different countries. </DL>
<A NAME="carryon">
<B>carry-on, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> small enough to be carried aboard an airplane by a passenger. <BR> <I>Ex. Coats and carry-on baggage are stowed in large overhead storage compartments (Time).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> (British Informal.) carrying-on. <BR> <I>Ex. ... belligerent family carry-ons (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="carryout">
<B>carry-out, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with food prepared to be eaten out of the premises; take-out. <BR> <I>Ex. carry-out chop suey; ... to launch a Chicken Delight carry-out shop (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="carryover">
<B>carry-over, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a part left over. <BR> <I>Ex. About the only carry-over from the unsuccessful attempt at centralization is that a single officer is in charge of all purchasing (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the portion of a crop, stock, or the like, to be disposed of with the following crop or stock. <BR> <I>Ex. She is now faced with a big carry-over and a big new crop coming along (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Bookkeeping.) the item or items carried forward in an accounting record. <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=carry-forward.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="carse">
<B>carse, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) the low alluvial land along the bank of a river. </DL>
<A NAME="carseat">
<B>car seat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an infant's portable seat for use in automobile travel, having adjustable back hooks that attach to the front seat of the automobile. <DD><B> 2. </B>any of the seats in an automobile. </DL>
<A NAME="carsedeposit">
<B>carse deposit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) an estuarine deposit made up of clay and silt. </DL>
<A NAME="carsick">
<B>carsick, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> nauseated by the motion of traveling in a car, train, or other conveyance. </DL>
<A NAME="carsickness">
<B>carsickness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> motion sickness caused by traveling in a car, train, or other conveyance. </DL>
<A NAME="cart">
<B>cart, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a strong vehicle with two wheels, used in farming and for carrying heavy loads. Horses, donkeys,and oxen are often used to pull carts. <DD><B> 2. </B>a light wagon, used to deliver goods or for general business. <DD><B> 3. </B>a small vehicle on wheels, moved by hand. <BR> <I>Ex. a grocery cart.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) a chariot. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to carry in a cart. <BR> <I>Ex. Cart this rubbish away to the dump. We were all carted to the little town (Thomas De Quincey).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to carry or transport laboriously. <BR> <I>Ex. He carted two chimpanzees from England to Kenya (Life). When his show is over, the artist carts his work home to make room for the next man's (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) to carry in a cart through the streets, by way of punishment or public exposure. <BR> <I>Ex. Democritus ne'er laugh'd so loud, To see Bawds carted through the crowd (Samuel Butler).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to work with a cart. <BR> <I>Ex. Horses cart better than oxen.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>in the cart,</B> </I>in an unpleasant or difficult situation. <BR> <I>Ex. We were simply all over 'em and had 'em in the cart in no time (Punch).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>put the cart before the horse,</B> </I>to reverse the accepted or usual order of things. <BR> <I>Ex. The boy put the cart before the horse by starting off dinner with apple pie. ... she puts the overloaded cart of her erudition before the horse of her research (Theodor Reik).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cartage">
<B>cartage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of carting or transporting. <DD><B> 2. </B>the cost or price of carting. </DL>
<A NAME="carte">
<B>carte</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Scottish.) a playing car. <DD><B> 2. </B>a bill of fare. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) a map; chart. <BR><I>expr. <B>cartes,</B> </I>(Scottish.) cardplaying; a game of cards. </DL>
<A NAME="carte">
<B>carte</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a position in fencing; quarte. </DL>
<A NAME="carteblanche">
<B>carte blanche, </B>pl. <B>cartes blanches,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> freedom to use one's own judgment; full authority. <BR> <I>Ex. The law allows a surgeon to operate without permission in order to save life, but no such carte blanche exists merely to save vision (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cartedevisite">
<B>carte de visite,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a visiting card. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small mounted photograph of a person, formerly used as a calling card. <BR> <I>Ex. I have a photograph of him--a carte de visite, taken about the date of the marriage (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cartedujour">
<B>carte du jour,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a menu or bill of fare for the day. <BR> <I>Ex. When I arrived at my table, I did not even look at the carte du jour (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cartel">
<B>cartel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large group of business firms that agree to operate as a monopoly, especially to regulate prices and production. <BR> <I>Ex. The methodical Swiss, who think that there is a place for everything, staunchly believe that the place for industry is in cartels(Time).</I> (SYN) syndicate, combine. <DD><B> 2. </B>a written agreement between countries at war for the exchange of prisoners or some other purpose. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a written challenge to a duel. <DD><B> b. </B>a letter of defiance. <DD><B> 4. </B>Also, <B>Cartel.</B> (in France and Belgium) a political group with a common cause or object; a bloc. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Rare.) a paper or card bearing writing or printing. </DL>
<A NAME="cartelism">
<B>cartelism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the principles and practices of a business cartel. <BR> <I>Ex. The Group has strengthened itself for the vigors of new competition by casting off the remnants of cartelism--long European business' favorite form of capitalism (Time).</I> n., adj. <B>cartelist.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cartelize">
<B>cartelize, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-lized,</B> <B>-lizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to combine or organize into a cartel or cartels. <BR> <I>Ex. No Swiss business has been more tightly cartelized than the watch industry (Time).</I> noun <B>cartelization.</B> noun <B>cartelizer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="carter">
<B>carter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person whose work is driving a cart or truck. </DL>
<A NAME="cartes">
<B>cartes, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>carte</B> (1). </DL>
<A NAME="cartesian">
<B>Cartesian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Rene Descartes, 1596-1650, or with his doctrines or methods. <BR> <I>Ex. Cartesian logic. On the surface she seemed cold and calculating enough, almost a Cartesian spirit (Edgar Maass).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> See also <B>Cartesianism.</B> <DD><I>noun </I> a follower of Descartes's doctrines or methods. </DL>
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<A NAME="cartesiancoordinate">
<B>Cartesian coordinate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>either one of two intersecting lines which determine the position of every point in a plane. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of three intersecting lines which determine the position of points in space. </DL>
<A NAME="cartesiandevil">
<B>Cartesian devil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a philosophical toy consisting of a hollow figure filled with air in the upper part and water in the lower, and often fashioned in the form of a devil. It will rise and fall in a cylinder of water by changes in pressure produced by manipulating a sheet of rubber, or the like, stretched over the top of the cylinder. Pressure on the rubber causes more water to enter the lower part of the figure, compressing the air within and causing the figure to sink; release of the pressure on the rubber causes the figure to rise. </DL>
<B>Cartesianism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the philosophical system of Descartes, resting upon his famous axiom <I>Cogito; ergo sum</I> (I think; therefore I am), seeking to impart to metaphysics the certainty and precision of mathematics, and stressing a fundamental dualism of thought (mind) and extension (matter). </DL>
<A NAME="cartesianproduct">
<B>Cartesian product</B> or <B>set,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) the set of all ordered pairs that can be formed by matching each member of one set with each member of a second set in turn. </DL>
<A NAME="cartful">
<B>cartful, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fuls.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> enough to fill a cart. <BR> <I>Ex. a cartful of sand.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="carthaginian">
<B>Carthaginian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of Carthage. <DD><I>noun </I> a person who was born or who lived in Carthage. </DL>
<A NAME="carthamicacid">
<B>carthamic acid, =carthamin.</B></DL>
<A NAME="carthamin">
<B>carthamin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a dark red powder derived from the safflower and used as a dye. </DL>
<A NAME="carthorse">
<B>cart horse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a big, strong draft horse. </DL>
