| carry-on |
of luggage, small enough to be stored in the passenger cabin of an airplane. [2 definitions] |
| carry one's weight |
to work and produce results as well as everyone else; contribute one's fair share to some effort. |
| carry out |
to go through the steps of (something) and bring to completion; do (a task, experiment, study, or the like). [3 definitions] |
| carry-out |
of food prepared in a commercial establishment, ready to eat but to be taken off the premises; take-out. [2 definitions] |
| carry-over |
that which is carried over or retained; residue; remainder. [2 definitions] |
| carry weight |
to have influence, importance, or authority. |
| carsick |
suffering from motion sickness during car travel. |
| Carson City |
the capital of Nevada. |
| cart |
a heavy, two-wheeled, open vehicle drawn by horse, mule, or oxen and used to transport goods. [6 definitions] |
| cartage |
the conveyance of goods by cart. [2 definitions] |
| carte blanche |
unrestricted authority, freedom, or discretion. |
| carte du jour |
(French) menu. |
| cartel |
an international group of independent businesses formed to control production and prices and to restrict competition in certain business enterprises. [2 definitions] |
| Cartesian |
of or pertaining to Descartes or his philosophy or mathematics. [2 definitions] |
| Cartesian coordinates |
a pair of coordinates for locating a point on a plane by its distances from two intersecting, usu. perpendicular lines. [2 definitions] |
| Carthage |
an ancient Phoenician city-state founded in the ninth century B.C. near the site of modern Tunis and destroyed in 146 B.C. by the Romans. |
| Carthusian |
a member of a very strict, contemplative Roman Catholic monastic order founded in the eleventh century. |
| cartilage |
a tough, white, elastic connective tissue forming a major component of the skeletons of fetuses and young vertebrates, and turning largely to bone as the organism matures. [2 definitions] |
| cartilaginous |
of, pertaining to, or like cartilage. [2 definitions] |
| cartload |
the capacity or contents of a cart. |
| cartography |
the art or technique of producing maps. |