The difference between Bear and Carry
When used as nouns, bear means a large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet, whereas carry means a manner of transporting or lifting something.
When used as verbs, bear means to endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in, whereas carry means to lift (something) and take it to another place.
Bear is also adjective with the meaning: characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bear and Carry
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Bear as a noun:
A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae.
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Bear as a noun (figuratively):
A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
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Bear as a noun (finance):
An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
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Bear as a noun (slang, US):
A state policeman .
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Bear as a noun (slang):
A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
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Bear as a noun (engineering):
A portable punching machine.
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Bear as a noun (nautical):
A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
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Bear as a noun (cartomancy):
The fifteenth Lenormand card.
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Bear as a noun (colloquial, US):
Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
Examples:
"That window can be a bear to open."
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Bear as a verb (finance, transitive):
To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
Examples:
"to bear a railroad stock"
"to bear the market"
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Bear as an adjective (finance, investments):
Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.
Examples:
"The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors."
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To support or sustain; to hold up.
Examples:
"This stone bears most of the weight."
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To carry something.
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To be equipped with (something).
Examples:
"the right to bear arms"
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To wear or display.
Examples:
"The shield bore a red cross."
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Bear as a verb (transitive, with ''[[witness]]''):
To declare as testimony.
Examples:
"The jury could see he was bearing false witness."
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Bear as a verb (ambitransitive):
To put up with something; to tolerate.
Examples:
"I would never move to Texas—I can't bear heat."
"Please bear with me as I try to find the book you need."
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To give birth to someone or something .
Examples:
"In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy."
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Bear as a verb (ambitransitive):
To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
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Bear as a verb (intransitive):
To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
Examples:
"Carry on past the church and then bear left at the junction."
"By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east."
"Great Falls bears north of Bozeman."
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Bear as a verb (intransitive):
To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
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Bear as a verb (intransitive):
To endure with patience; to be patient.
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Bear as a verb (intransitive, usually with ''on'', ''upon'', or ''against''):
To press.
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Bear as a verb (intransitive, military, usually with ''on'' or ''upon''):
Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target. To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
Examples:
"to bring arguments to bear"
"How does this bear on the question?"
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
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Bear as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To conduct; to bring (a person).
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
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Bear as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To gain or win.
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To carry on, or maintain; to have.
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
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Bear as a verb (reflexive, transitive):
To behave or conduct (oneself).
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Bear as a verb (transitive):
To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
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Bear as a noun:
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Carry as a verb (transitive):
To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
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Carry as a verb:
To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
Examples:
"to carry the war from Greece into Asia"
"to carry an account to the ledger"
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Carry as a verb:
To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
Examples:
"The builders are going to carry the chimney through nowrap the roof.  They would have carried the road ten miles further, but ran nowrap out of materials."
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Carry as a verb (transitive, mostly, archaic):
To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
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Carry as a verb (transitive):
To stock or supply (something).
Examples:
"The corner drugstore doesn't carry his favorite brand of aspirin."
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Carry as a verb (transitive):
To adopt (something); take (something) over.
Examples:
"I think I can carry Smith's work while she is out."
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Carry as a verb (transitive):
To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly
Examples:
"The court carries that motion."
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Carry as a verb (transitive, arithmetic):
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.
Examples:
"Five and nine are fourteen; carry the one to the tens place."
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Carry as a verb (transitive):
To have or maintain (something).
Examples:
"Always carry sufficient insurance to protect against a loss."
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Carry as a verb (intransitive):
To be transmitted; to travel.
Examples:
"The sound of the bells carried for miles on the wind."
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Carry as a verb (slang, transitive):
To insult, to diss.
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Carry as a verb (transitive, nautical):
To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
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Carry as a verb (transitive, sports):
To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
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Carry as a verb (transitive):
To have on one's person.
Examples:
"she always carries a purse;  marsupials carry their young in a pouch"
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Carry as a verb:
To be pregnant (with).
Examples:
"The doctor said she's carrying twins."
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Carry as a verb:
To have propulsive power; to propel.
Examples:
"A gun or mortar carries well."
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Carry as a verb:
To hold the head; said of a horse.
Examples:
"to carry well, i.e. to hold the head high, with arching neck"
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Carry as a verb (hunting):
To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
Examples:
"rfquotek Johnson"
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Carry as a verb:
To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win.
Examples:
"The Tories carried the election."
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Carry as a verb (obsolete):
To get possession of by force; to capture.
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Carry as a verb:
To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
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Carry as a verb (reflexive):
To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
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Carry as a verb:
To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
Examples:
"A merchant is carrying a large stock;  nowrap a farm carries nowrap a mortgage;  nowrap a broker carries stock for nowrap a customer;  nowrap to carry a life insurance."
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Carry as a verb (intransitive):
To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
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Carry as a noun:
A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
Examples:
"Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don't tire too quickly."
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Carry as a noun:
A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
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Carry as a noun (computing):
The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.