carry vs hold

carry

verb
  • To stock or supply (something); to have in store. 

  • To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly 

  • To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another. 

  • To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding. 

  • To have on one's person. 

  • To have propulsive power; to propel. 

  • to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting) 

  • To be pregnant (with). 

  • To lead or guide. 

  • To hold the head; said of a horse. 

  • To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another. 

  • To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success. 

  • To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle 

  • To be transmitted; to travel. 

  • To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting. 

  • To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed. 

  • To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit 

  • To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession. 

  • To adopt (something); take (something) over. 

  • To have, hold, possess or maintain (something). 

  • To convey by extension or continuance; to extend. 

  • To insult, to diss. 

  • to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win. 

  • To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare. 

  • To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct. 

  • To bear a firearm, such as a gun. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried. 

  • The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground. 

  • The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation. 

  • Carried interest. 

  • The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time. 

  • A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage. 

  • The sky; cloud-drift. 

hold

verb
  • To contain or store. 

  • To detain. 

  • To take place, to occur. 

  • In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted. 

  • To have and keep possession of something. 

  • Not to move; to halt; to stop. 

  • To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person). 

  • To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale. 

  • To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice). 

  • To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain. 

  • To win one's own service game. 

  • To cause to wait or delay. 

  • To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain. 

  • To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions. 

  • To maintain, to consider, to opine. 

  • To grasp or grip. 

  • To reserve. 

  • To bear, carry, or manage. 

  • To keep oneself in a particular state. 

  • To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function. 

  • Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued. 

  • To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. 

noun
  • The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair. 

  • The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet. 

  • Power over someone or something. 

  • A place where animals are held for safety 

  • An act or instance of holding. 

  • Keep a firm hold on the handlebars. 

  • A position or grip used to control the opponent. 

  • The wager amount, the total hold. 

  • A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin. 

  • The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold). 

  • The ability to persist. 

  • An exercise involving holding a position for a set time 

  • An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with. 

  • Something reserved or kept. 

  • A grasp or grip. 

  • The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold. 

  • As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015 

  • The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume. 

  • The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy. 

  • A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team. 

  • An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken. 

  • A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern. 

How often have the words carry and hold occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )