carry vs track

carry

verb
  • To be transmitted; to travel. 

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

  • 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. 

track

verb
  • To traverse; to move across. 

  • To create music using tracker software. 

  • To make sense; to be consistent with known information 

  • To monitor the movement of a person or object. 

  • To create a musical recording (a track). 

  • To exhibit good cognitive function. 

  • To discover the location of a person or object by following traces. 

  • To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks. 

  • To tow. 

  • To match the movement or change of a person or object. 

  • To travel so that a moving object remains in shot. 

  • To follow the tracks of. 

  • To move. 

  • To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time. 

noun
  • A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc. 

  • The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree. 

  • Physical course; way. 

  • The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc. 

  • The pitch. 

  • A road or other similar beaten path. 

  • The direction and progress of someone or something; path. 

  • Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring. 

  • A tract or area, such as of land. 

  • A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence. 

  • The street, as a prostitute's place of work. 

  • A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors. 

  • A themed set of talks within a conference. 

  • A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal. 

  • The way or rails along which a train moves. 

  • Sound stored on a record. 

  • The physical track on a record. 

  • A mark left by something that has passed along. 

  • The racing events of track and field; track and field in general. 

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