Carry and Prop

Carry

Carry verb - To hold up or serve as a foundation for.
Usage example: erected a trellis to carry the vine

Prop and carry are semantically related In some cases you can use "Prop" instead a verb "Carry".

Nearby Words: carriage, carried, carrier, carrying, carri

Prop

Prop verb - Support by placing against something solid or rigid.

Carry and prop are semantically related in hold up or lean against topic. Sometimes you can use "Carry" instead a verb "Prop".

Nearby Words: propped, propping

Both words in one sentence

  • All Part of the Show When he tries to carry a corpse to his car one of the assistants stops to help him and notes that he's carrying a fake prop body himself.
  • Real Life / Cool Plane It's a big, beefy single-prop aircraft that could be mistaken for a fighter based on its overall shape, but could carry a bombload equal to the venerable B-17.
  • Like "Little Rocket Man" above, you need to find a hidden prop you might not even know exists, carry it through enemies and hazards that can easily have it Lost Forever, and drop it somewhere specific (in this case the teleporter to Xen).
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