carry vs transport

carry

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

  • 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 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 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. 

transport

verb
  • To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey. 

  • To deport to a penal colony. 

  • To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away. 

noun
  • The state of being transported by emotion; rapture. 

  • An act of transporting; conveyance. 

  • A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.) 

  • A tractor-trailer. 

  • A deported convict. 

  • A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc. 

  • The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system. 

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